A. Scholz, J. Giesselmann

In October 2003 the COMPASS 1 CubeSat project was initiated by couple of students at the Aachen University of Präsentation / Vortrag COMPASS-Applied Sciences. The CubeSat concept prescribes a satellite with dimensions 10x10x10cm and a mass of one kilogram. These constraints clearly limit the possibilities for the satellite in terms of possible scientific missions at the first glance, but on the other hand it really forces the developers to find new solutions and to re-think available technology. Thus it pushes towards miniaturization of subsystem hardware, which is anticipated to offer great potential for future small satellite missions. After all, launch costs can be significantly decreased with the CubeSat concept, allowing universities and small companies to enter the highly competitive space market. This paper will describe the concept of the COMPASS-1 Pico-Satellite and review the project history in short. For this satellite, a whole set of new ideas and methods had been implemented, in order to stick to the mission goal of allowing nadir-directed earth observation. The subsystems are currently in their final development phase and the latest results will be presented by the authors.

18. Raumfahrtkolloquium an der Fachhochschule Aachen, 2005, Aachen

Conference Presentation

englisch

ppt, 39 Seiten

DGLR-Bericht, 2005, 2005-06, 18. Raumfahrtkolloquium an der Fachhochschule Aachen - Klein Satelliten; S.1-39; 2005; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth e.V., Bonn

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in getr. Zählung;

raumfahrt, satellit

Bibliothek

2005