University of Tokyo's Student Nano-Satellite Project CubeSat-XI and Its On-Orbit Experiment Results

Funase, Ryu; Nakamura, Yuya; Nagai, Masaki; Eishima, Takashi; Nakada, Kenji; Enokuchi, Akito; Yuliang, Cheng; Takei, Ernesto; Nakasuka, Shinichi

doi:10.1016/s1474-6670(17)32293-0

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“…Other experiments such as attitude motion estimation using the telemetry of solar cell current were also successful. 7,9) Up to now (October 2007), the satellite has been fully operational and most of the operation time is currently assigned to various experimental operations such as automatic operation experiments or experiments for the construction of a world-wide ground station network. 10)…”

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“…Up to now (October, 2007), XI-IV has been operating in very good condition as the world's smallest satellite, and various on-orbit experiments including sensor data acquisition, attitude motion estimation and earth imaging mission have been performed successfully. 7) Following the accomplishment of XI-IV's mission and successful verification of the pico-satellite bus system, ISSL developed another CubeSat named XI-V [sai-five] in 2004 in order to demonstrate new space technologies such as thin film-type solar cells. The pico-satellite bus verified by XI-IV was used for this mission.…”

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Development of COTS-based Pico-Satellite Bus and Its Application to Quick and Low Cost On-orbit Demonstration of Novel Space Technology

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Small satellites, especially pico or nano-class satellites, which can be developed in a very short period and at very low cost, are considered to provide good opportunities for technology demonstration in a space environment. Based on the success of the first pico-satellite XI-IV, which was intended to establish the basic technologies required for this class of satellites, Intelligent Space Systems Laboratory (ISSL) at the University of Tokyo developed its second pico-satellite XI-V with the mission to demonstrate new space technologies such as the verification of copper indium gallium di-selenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cells in space. The pico-satellite bus verified by XI-IV was used for this mission, so that the satellite was completed within as short a development period as one year. XI-V was launched on October 2005 and has been successfully conducting its missions. In this paper, following the introduction of the pico-satellite bus system and its demonstrated results on XI-IV, the details of the missions and on-orbit experimental results of XI-V are described.

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Section: Launch Results Of Xi-ivmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%