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Mission packs

Each subdirectory under docs/missions/ is a complete mission pack: the full documentation set for one specific science mission on a UniSat platform. A mission pack ships every artefact a competition jury or internal CDR review needs in one place — design review, science justification, key-data format, presentation, poster, compliance checklist, and a baseline SITL dataset.

If you are starting a new mission, copy _template/ and fill in the seven canonical documents.

Index

Mission Science objective Form factor Template preset Pack
cansat_radiation Vertical gamma dose-rate profile 0–500 m at ≤ 10 m resolution (SBM-20 Geiger tube) cansat_standard (Ø 68 × 80 mm, ≤ 500 g) cansat_uzcansat.json, cansat_standard.json pack

Future mission packs (hyperspectral 6U Earth observation, 3U SSO technology demonstrator, HAB telemetry) will be added here as they ship. See docs/budgets/mass_budget.md for the upcoming form-factor budgets that pack authors should target.

What a complete mission pack contains

The seven canonical documents come from the cansat_radiation precedent — the first pack that closed all four UzCanSat 2026 regulatory weaknesses. Each pack should include:

Document Purpose
README.md One-page overview: mission, form factor, document map, related tools.
CDR.md Critical Design Review — ConOps, requirements, subsystems, tests, REQ-traceability.
SCIENCE_MISSION.md Hypotheses (H₀/H₁), sensor justification, expected data, analysis method.
KEY_DATA_PACKET.md On-the-wire format for the key-data beacon plus a fallback plan.
PRESENTATION.md Marp slide deck (10 slides) with talking points in HTML comments.
POSTER.md A0 poster layout in ASCII plus typesetting notes.
*_COMPLIANCE.md Regulation-specific checklist (UzCanSat, CanSat Russia, ESA, …).

A baseline SITL dataset (baseline_sitl_dataset.csv) is strongly recommended so post-flight analysis scripts can be regression-tested against a known-good trajectory.

The mission template preset (the mission_templates/*.json file) lives outside the mission pack so it stays in the canonical templates location; the pack references it from README.md.

Authoring a new pack

  1. cp -r docs/missions/_template/ docs/missions/<your_mission>/
  2. Fill in each of the seven documents. Keep the section structure — readers navigate by it across packs.
  3. Add the corresponding mission_templates/<your_mission>.json preset (see existing presets for shape).
  4. Append a row to the Index table above.
  5. If your mission targets a specific competition, add a <competition>_COMPLIANCE.md modelled on cansat_radiation/UZCANSAT_COMPLIANCE.md.
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