Advanced Mission Space Lab 2025/26 Briefing

Advanced Mission Overview

Welcome, Senior Commander! Your team's mission is to engineer a sophisticated Python system for the Astro Pi computers aboard the ISS. You will use the Sense HAT sensors and the High Quality Camera to gather data.

The Objective: Conduct scientific experiments to investigate 'Life in Space' or 'Life on Earth' using the Astro Pi's sensors and camera.

Mission Constraints

  • ⏱️ Runtime: Max 10 minutes
  • 💾 Output: result.txt with speed in km/s
  • 📸 Images: Max 42 photos stored
  • 📦 Data Limit: Max 3GB total storage
  • 🐍 Python: Version 3.11+

Available Hardware

  • 🖥️ Computer: Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB RAM)
  • 🌡️ Sense HAT V2: Temp, Humidity, Gyro, Magnetometer, Accelerometer, Light/Color
  • 📷 Camera: High Quality Camera (5mm lens)

Required Advanced Libraries

sense_hat picamzero astro_pi_orbit logzero numpy scipy pandas pillow opencv scikit-learn

Mission Guide PDF