Cubesat 10x10x10cm 1kg Payload, Lets here it then... |
Cubesat 10x10x10cm 1kg Payload, Lets here it then... |
Sep 15 2005, 06:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
I'm sure many of you will be familar with the CubeSat project, in fact some of you may well have worked on one.
So lets hear it, what would you do with a 10x10x10cm 1kg payload in a CubeSat, beside the obvious like stick a camera in it and photograph your house. Who knows, perhaps one day we may see the launch of the USF CubeSat |
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Sep 16 2005, 01:54 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Need a lot of power and a high pressure Xenon tank. Wonder if it could be doable in a tripple cube.
Doug |
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Sep 16 2005, 03:38 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 16 2005, 02:54 PM) Need a lot of power and a high pressure Xenon tank. Wonder if it could be doable in a tripple cube. Doug the power could come from a set of extendable solar panels, who says that once deployed it has to remain constrained to a 10x10x10 cube. I jsut spent an hour in a boring meeting trying to figure out how to get a tiny telescope deployed from a 10x cube. with a single pivot point. We need to start thinking outside the box.... |
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Sep 16 2005, 03:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (paxdan @ Sep 16 2005, 04:38 PM) the power could come from a set of extendable solar panels, who says that once deployed it has to remain constrained to a 10x10x10 cube. I jsut spent an hour in a boring meeting trying to figure out how to get a tiny telescope deployed from a 10x cube. with a single pivot point. We need to start thinking outside the box.... The absolute minimum of deployment is probably the way to go - movement of parts=risk to both the CubeSat and the host vehicle, and leads to weight gains, spiralling cost etc. KISS is the motto - it's not Rocket Science, after all, just building... ...er... ...maybe it is. -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Sep 16 2005, 03:54 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Did I mention that an old friend of mine is selling places on Dnepr launchers, and that if persuaded he might be the very man to find a launch slot? All we need is a spacecraft...
-------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Sep 16 2005, 04:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
DIY satellites reinvent the space race
New York Times September 14, 2005 CubeSat is giving students and companies the opportunity to build and launch functional satellites into low Earth orbit at low cost.... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedire...sID=4840&m=7610 As for doing astronomy with very small satellites, WIRE is using its 2-inch star tracker for just that purpose: http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509444 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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