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A Pico-Satellite Design to Demonstrate Trajectory and Science Applications
Uludag, M.S.; Speretta, S.; Menicucci, A.; van den Bos, M.F.; Broekhuizen, C.H.; Bielders, M.J.M.; Haenen, J.; Gill, E.K.A.
Publication date 2020
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Uludag, M. S., Speretta, S., Menicucci, A., van den Bos, M. F., Broekhuizen, C. H., Bielders, M. J. M., Haenen, J., & Gill, E. K. A. (2020). A Pico-Satellite Design to Demonstrate Trajectory and Science Applications. Poster session presented at 34th Annual Small Satellite Conference, .
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Assembly
, integration an
d test
ing
Abstrac
t:
A
Pico-Sat
ellite Design to
Demonstrat
e
T
rajectory and
Science
Applicat
ions.
Delfi-P Q .Delfi-P
Q Characterist
ics
Referen
ces
Delfi-P Q Flatsat 1) Bouw meester , J, Radu, S, Uludag, S, Chr onas Fotei nakis, N, Spere tta, S, Menicu cci, A& Gill, E 2018, Con
dititions and Potential Appl ications for P ocketQubes. in Proce edings S mall S atellites, System & Servi ces Sympo sium, Sor rento, Italy , 28/05/18. 2) Ulud ag, S, Y akut, E, Sper
etta, S, Radu, S, Chrona
s Foteinakis, N, Bou wmeester , J, Menicu cci, A
& Gill, E 2019, Getting the Del
fi-PQ Read
y for Multipl
e Launch Option
s. in
Proce
edings of the Intern
ational S ymposiu m on Spa ce Techn ology and Science, Fuku i (Japan ), June 15th-21st, 2019 ., 2019-f-08, Internation al Symp osium on Space Techn ology and Science, Fukui , Japan, 15/06/19. 3) Bou wmeester , J, Radu, S, Uludag, MS , Chronas, N, Spe retta, S, Menicucci , A & Gill, EKA 2020, 'Utili ty and constrain ts of PocketQubes', CEA S Space Jou rnal. https://doi.org/10.100 7/s12567- 020- 00300-0.
Space S
ystem Engi
neeri
ng Section
,
Depar
tment of Space E
nginee
ring,
TU Delft (The
Netherla
nds)
The s tandar dized stac king c on fi gur ation, sm all stru ctur e as well as the a bsence of connec tors enables to in tegrate the P ock etqube in about 30 minu tes. Aside fr om the assembly an d integrat ion, an automat ed, small sc ale test setup isalso being developed. Th
is setup cr eates a n un inter rupted, r emotely acc essible and eas y to car ry test envir onment to cont rol the fun ctionality of a
satellite for a long
durat ion. Unit testing w as perfor med at har dwar e level and fu ll har dwar e-in-th e-loop simulation h as been used t hr oughout the development pr ocess to ver if y system funct ionality and c ompliance t o mission requir ements . F ully aut omated test enables th e possibility to test th e satellite c ontinuou sly . A halogen lamp is being us ed as a light sour ce to supply power to the s
atellite via the
solar panels.Th e inhibit s witches (kill switc hes an d remove befor e fl ight pins) w er e tested as well. Del fi -PQ will be laun ched in December 2 020 with the Space-X Falcon-9 launc her fr om the K ennedy Space C enter in Cape Cana veral. It will integra ted in th e Albapod
deployer, developed by Alba Orbital, wh
ich c an c ar ry u p to 6p P ock etQubes. Del fi -PQ will be injected int o a Sun -Synch ronous cir cular orbit of ~500 km. T he satellite has been equ ipped with four laser cor ner -cube re fl ect ors to
allow being tra
ck ed by the Inter national Las er R anging Service, pr oviding a furt her independent estimation with respect to the s atellite position derived fr om the on -boar d GPS.
Mehmet Sevk
et Ulud
ag*
, Stefano Sper
etta,
Alessandra
Menicu
cci,
Casper
Br
oekhuizen
,
Michael va
n den
Bos, Maxime Bielders,
Jasper Ha
enen,
Eber
har
d Gill.
*
Corr
espond
ing
auth
or ema
il: M
.S.U
luda
g@tu
delft.
nl
Albap od deplo yer This paper pr esents the des ign, integr ation an d testing of a pico satellite, Del
fi
-PQ, a 3
P P
ock
etQube developed by Delf
t Un iversity of T echn ology, e xpected t o be launc hed at the en d of 2020. The m
ain goal of this pr
oject is cr eating a miniatur ized platfor m for futu re space m issions with perfor manc es compa rable to C ubeSats, takin g advanta ge of the min iaturiza tion of electr onic compon ents a nd th eir integr ation. Edu cation of aer ospace engineerin g studen ts is a second
key goal of the pr
oject, wh er e stu dents in volved in the pr oject as pa rt of th eir cur ricular act ivities.
