Documentation of SeaSpace Ground Station Systems at Elizabeth City State University

Team Members: Nigel Pugh, Jefferson Ridgeway, Tori Wilbon
Mentor: Andrew Brumfield, Michael Osterhouse

In September 2014, a transition was made to a direct purchase and installation of Seaspace hardware and software. The installation of the Seaspace hardware included: 15 Visualization stations, 2 monitoring systems, a Teravault raw storage device, and a TeraScan Rapid Environmental X-treme (TREX) high-powered processor.  The installation of the Seaspace software on the 15 Visualization stations included: an updated version of TeraScan, which includes the Graphical User Interfaces TeraVision and TeraMaster, and CentOs, which is a Linux-based Operating System.  Also two 5.0m L band systems were installed on Dixon-Patterson hall in the summer of 2012. The purpose of this project was to document the installation requirements and internal processes at ECSU for Seaspace Hardware and Software Equipment, with also addressing; the location of engineering findings, location of installation requirements, repositioning and securing current ground stations, and proper training center needs.

Keywords: Seaspace, TREX, TeraScan, CentOS, TeraScan, Visialization Stations,TerVault, Monitoring Systems, GOES

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