Applications of Systems Engineering Methodologies to an Undergraduate Student Volunteer-Led CubeSat Constellation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Northern Space Program for Innovative Research and Integrated Training (Northern SPIRIT) satellite consortium launched in March 2023 and consists of three CubeSats designed, assembled, and operated by AlbertaSat, a University of Alberta student group: Ex-Alta 2: a 3U CubeSat containing an open-source, multispectral imager designed for wildfire prediction, detection, and prevention. YukonSat and AuroraSat: 2U CubeSats developed in collaboration with Yukon University and the Aurora Research Institute, each with an educational outreach payload that can receive, display, and photograph community submitted artwork and messages. All three satellites have digital fluxgate magnetometer payloads, and nearly identical buses composed of both commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and designed-in-house components. Common aerospace systems engineering methodologies were applied throughout all mission phases in a lean manner to mitigate technical and programmatic risk.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".