Design of an Undergraduate 3-Axis Space Science Satellite

The fundamental objectives of the capstone design project in the Department of Astronautics at the United States Air Force Academy are for cadets to learn important engineering lessons by executing a real space mission on a Department of Defense-funded satellite project. FalconSAT-5 is a 153 kg, thr...

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Main Authors: Saylor, William W., France, Martin E.
Other Authors: AIR FORCE ACADEMY COLORADO SPRINGS CO DEPT OF ASTRONAUTICS
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Personnel Management and Labor Relations
Unmanned Spacecraft
*UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY
*STUDENTS
*SCIENTIFIC SATELLITES
AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
TRAINING
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
INSTRUMENTATION
FALCONSAT-5
ACADEMIC SMALL SATELLITE PROGRAMS
Kodiak
Alaska
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA543957
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA543957
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Summary:The fundamental objectives of the capstone design project in the Department of Astronautics at the United States Air Force Academy are for cadets to learn important engineering lessons by executing a real space mission on a Department of Defense-funded satellite project. FalconSAT-5 is a 153 kg, three-axis stabilized spacecraft being designed and built by cadets and scheduled for launch in December 2009 on a Minotaur-IV from Kodiak, Alaska. The satellite has a space science mission to measure the local state of the ionosphere at ambient conditions with the intelligent Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer (iMESA) instrument and higher energy ions with the Wafer Integrated Spectrometers (WISPERS) instrument. There is also an RF receiver that can tune in the VHF and UHF bands in order to measure RF scintillation and correlate large scale ionospheric variations with the local iMESA and WISPERS measurements. One additional science objective is to understand and measure the interaction of generated plasmas with the body of a satellite and the local magnetic fields. See also ADA541068. The 4S Symposium: Small Satellites Systems and Services, in Rhodes, Greece on May 26-30, 2008; published in proceedings of the same, ESA SP-660, Aug 2008. U.S. Government or Federal Purpose Rights License. The original document contains color images.

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