Titech micro-satellite model: CanSat for sub-orbital flight

Matunaga, Saburo; Yoshihara, Keisuke; Sugiura, Y.; Sekiguchi, M.; Sawada, Hirotaka; Tsurumi, Shingo; Nakaya, Koji; Mori, Masao; Ui, Kyoichi; Maeda, Naoki; Mori, Osamu

doi:10.1109/aero.2000.879283

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“…Japan had popularized an ultra-small satellite format already in the 90s, called CanSat, for suborbital experiments (e.g. [2], [3]). Then, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and Stanford University's Space Systems Development Lab created the CubeSat standard in 1999 that greatly stimulated the emergence of the economic New Space sector.…”

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Autonomous Orbit Determination for a CubeSat Cruising in Deep Space

Segret¹,

Mosser²

2021

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CubeSats have become a meaningful option for deep-space exploration, but their autonomy must be increased to maximize the science return while limiting the complexity in operations. We present here a solution for an autonomous orbit determination in the context of a CubeSat cruising in deep space. The study case is a journey from Earth to Mars. An optical sensor at CubeSat standard is considered. The image processing is added to extract the direction of distant celestial bodies with 0.2 " accuracy: it consists of a Multiple Cross-Correlation (MCC) algorithm that uses bright stars in the background of the images. Then, an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) is built to perform an asynchronous triangulation from the successive directions of the celestial bodies. The UKF meets the expected performance in contexts where linear approximations are not possible. The orbit reconstruction reaches a 3 σ accuracy of 30 km in the middle of the Earth-Mars cruise. Additionally, the Central Processing Unit (CPU) cost of the filter is assessed at less than 1 second per iteration with a typical CubeSat hardware. It is ready for further improvements in terms of new observables associated with data fusion, quicker convergence and attitude control savings.

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Autonomous Orbit Determination for a CubeSat Cruising in Deep Space

Segret¹,

Mosser²

2021

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“…A CanSat typically has a cylinder-shaped configuration with dimensions of less than approximately 10 cm in radius and 20 cm in height, a mass of less than 1 kg, and typically uses commercial off-the-shelf components. 6) Its functionality in an extremely small package promises to yield numerous advanced technologies required for achieving challenging mission-related functions such as sub-orbital experiments, 7) scientific investigations, 8) atmospheric science testing, 9) and verification of new technologies. 10) CanSats can be sent to a certain target altitude using model rockets, balloons, UAVs, airplanes, helicopters, or basically anything with flight capability.…”

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Smartphone CanSat for Actualization of Real-time Streaming Video Calls Using Remote Screen Touch System with Shape Memory Alloy Actuator

Kim

et al. 2019

Trans. Japan Soc. Aero. S Sci.

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This paper reports the Smart Call from the Sky (SCSky) Can Satellite (CanSat) platform developed by Chosun University, South Korea, with a focus on a smart material of shape memory alloy actuator applications. The primary objective of this study is to verify the effectiveness of a remote screen touch system using shape memory alloy wires. The system is currently being utilized to operate the on-board smartphone of a CanSat by telecommands from a ground station. It provides real-time streaming video showing the internal and external states of CanSat through video calls during actual flight. The secondary objective of the mission is to acquire a wide-scan image from the on-board USB cameras, whose elevation angles are actuated using shape memory alloy springs. The effectiveness of the design proposed was validated experimentally through actual flight tests using model rockets.

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“…Although it allows important preliminary communication tests between the satellite and the ground station, it does not evaluate the satellite behavior under the severe conditions of a rocket launching. 30 In a more elaborated solution, sounding rockets [8] have been used for preliminary tests of nanosatellites, reducing failures before the mission. In this case, the sounding rocket ejects the nanosatellite after reaching a predetermined altitude.…”

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Pre-flight qualification test procedure for nanosatellites using sounding rockets

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et al.. Pre-flight qualification test procedure for nanosatellites using sounding rockets. Acta Astronautica, Elsevier, 2019, 159, pp.Abstract This work presents an innovative procedure to test nanosatellites subsystems on board sounding rockets. The procedure allows the subsystems to save their telemetry data during the whole rocket flight phases (including at the rocket lift-off). The subsystems of the FloripaSat (1U CubeSat) engineering model have been tested on board a VSB-30 rocket in order to validate their design and integration process. A dedicated embedded system has been proposed to operate as an electronic interface between the nanosatellite subsystems and the rocket electronics. Also, a system to process telemetry data was implemented on * Corresponding author Email addresses: slongo@eel.ufsc.br (Leonardo Kessler Slongo), jgreis@lisha.ufsc.br (João Gabriel Reis), daniel.gaiki@studenti.polito.it (Daniel Gaiki), pedro@labtucal.ufsc.br (Pedro Von Hohendorff Seger), sara.vega@posgrad.ufsc.br (Sara Vega Martínez), bruno.eiterer@grad.ufsc.br (Bruno Vale Barbosa Eiterer), tulio.gomes.pereira@grad.ufsc.br (Tulio Gomes Pereira), mario.baldini@posgrad.ufsc.br (Mario Baldini Neto), m.frata@grad.ufsc.br (Matheus dos Santos Frata), henrique.hamisch@grad.ufsc.br (Henrique Daniel Hamisch),Subsystem (EPS); Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TT&C); and On Board Data Handling (OBDH). Several nanosatellites' functions have been evaluated, including: battery monitoring; inertial measurement unit; temperature measurements; radio transceiver; and beacon. The flight results were considerably different from the results obtained at the laboratory. This has allowed important modifications to be made on the design of the CubeSat flight model as the revision on the radio circuit on TT&C and the implementation of an external battery charger circuit for the EPS.Keywords: Test procedure, design validation, nanosatellite, sounding rocket 65 ditions. Even real nanosatellite missions can not provide data to this analysis, since the spacecrafts are placed in the P-POD (or equivalent launching device) during the flight, obligatorily in switch off condition. Laboratory qualification tests are essential, and they may be performed with the satellite subsystems collecting data. However, the physical phenomena are treated separately in 70 each test (vibration, acceleration, mechanical shock, temperature cycling, etc.), and normally, in a lower level of intensity (specially for nanosatellite projects).These are the reasons why this test procedure has been proposed, believing that new data may arise from these suborbital flights, which will help nanosatellite designers in their projects. 75 Besides the procedures of nanosatellite's subsystem configuration and integration, this paper also describes the design of the Multi-Mission Platform (MMP), which is an embedded system conceived to allow nanosatellite tests (and other experiments) aboard sounding rockets. This platform is based on a 4 180 experiment's goal is to test a thermal device, as wel...

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Titech micro-satellite model: CanSat for sub-orbital flight

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Autonomous Orbit Determination for a CubeSat Cruising in Deep Space

Autonomous Orbit Determination for a CubeSat Cruising in Deep Space

Smartphone CanSat for Actualization of Real-time Streaming Video Calls Using Remote Screen Touch System with Shape Memory Alloy Actuator

Pre-flight qualification test procedure for nanosatellites using sounding rockets

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