1. Voice of the Customer Presentation
February 22, 2015
R16101: RIT- SPEX Testing & Payloads
Josh Closson, Sydney Kaminski, Tim Koski, Ben McFadden, Jack Moore
Guide: Russell Phelps
Introduce yourselves; Tim
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2. Overview Project Background, Goals, & Objectives Overview
Stakeholders, Point of Contacts, and Faculty Guides
Research & Benchmarking
Project Goals & Objective Tree
Customer Requirements & Pareto Diagram
Next Steps
Tim

3. Project Background Overall Goal: Objective:
To further the capabilities of the RIT space exploration (SPEX) club and help enable the creation of a CubeSat
Objective:
Provide RIT with new testing facilities to help design and certify a CubeSat for deployment.
Launch Vehicle Emulator
Orbital Emulator
Jack

4. CubeSat General Overview
General Information:
A CubeSat is a low cost, miniature research satellite.
It deploys from existing space launch vehicles.
CubeSats can serve a variety of purposes including:
Earth observation
Exposing various experiments to the effects of Low Earth Orbit
Amateur radio
Cubesat google search, Jack

5. CubeSat Design Research Overview
CubeSats are a specific form of nanosatellite that are launched into Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
Variation in CubeSat sizes are displayed in the image to the right.
Satellites need to be designed to withstand extreme environments during launch and orbit.
hesh/Cubesats.html
Ben

6. CubeSat Development Overview
CubeSats need to be tested in simulated flight environments to be certified for flight.
NASA LSP requirements include vibrations and thermal vacuum chamber testing.
RIT SPEX currently lacks the resources to test CubeSats in this way.
Ben
NASA LSP-REQ Rev. B

7. State of the Art (Industry vs. Educational)
Ben

8. Stakeholders Main Customer & Primary Point of Contact
Anthony Hennig, Current leader of SPEX & P16102
Faculty Members:
Edward Hanzlik, Faculty advisor for SPEX MSD Teams P16102 and P16103
Dr. Patru, Current faculty guide for SPEX and customer for MSD teams
MSD Teams:
Deployable Solar Array Team, P16102
Vibration Test Rig, P16103
Microfluidic Spectroscopy for Proteins, P16104
Attitude Determination Control System Testing Apparatus, P16105
Anthony and Dr. Patru are stepping down post semester
New stakeholders for future MSD projects
- Josh

9. Project Goals Launch Vehicle Emulator Orbital Emulator Sydney
Proposal from Dr. Patru
Proposal from Dr. Patru

10. Sydney; Cost, two projects, where pulled from (multiple universities)

11. Customer Requirements
Tim; How to split up importance, spoke with Dr. Patru, why low importance was important. Talk about critical vs. low importance, why

12. Next Steps Debartalo – current 1500 per team, will it continue?
Need to find future Faculty leader for SPEX
Josh

13. Questions?