1. CubeSat: The Wee Space Box.
Craig Clark

2. What are cubesats?

3. What are CubeSats? 1000kg 150kg 1kg
Steady evolution of utility value of smaller spacecraft. Still a place for the large spacecraft, and for micro/mini satellites, but there is a growing number of miniature spacecraft that are showing interesting capability.

4. Traditionally Bespoke
Some standardisation within organisations, but not across industry.

5. Standardisation is Key
More launch
opportunities
Collaborative, continuous, industry led
standardisation
of interfaces
More Missions
Larger selection of off-the-shelf subsystems

6. Growing Number of CubeSats
Info from

7. CubeSats are smaller than small

8. Launch Systems

9. Current Applications of CubeSats

10. Life Sciences

11. Theatre of Operations Comms

12. NSF Earth Science Missions
The ‘Firefly’ CubeSat satellite will investigate Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes (TGFs) when it launches in 2010.
Scientists theorize that TGFs are linked to lightning and result when high-energy electrons are accelerated upward over thunder storms

13. Do not limit your imagination

14. CubeSat Cameras

15. CubeSat Constellations

16. Fire Monitoring

17. Clyde Space and CubeSats

18. Company timeline
OTS product range expanded beyond power subsystem
Bespoke modular power systems
First OTS product (CubeSat EPS)
First website to purchase space OTS
ESA / ISO Quality Processes
Company Founded
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
First bespoke solar panel sales
First hi-rel variant product
Expanded to current facilities
First flight heritage (ITUpSAT1)

19. Clyde Space today 1.5MGBP (2009/10 forecast turnover) 20 employees
14 engineers
3 production technicians
Growing at 100% PA.
>100 OTS CubeSat EPS sold to in 3 years
Ongoing ESA / NASA / major industry projects
Quality assurance processes fully implemented
ESA ECSS qualified operators and inspectors
ISO9001:2008 accreditation

20. CubeSat Power Systems

21. CubeSat Solar Panels

22. Lithium Polymer Batteries

23. Attitude control Control moment gyro drive electronics
Magnetorquers embedded in solar arrays
Telemetry & switching
In development
Micro-interial wheels
Attitude & rate Sensors
Sun sensors

24. Orbit control - mPPT Soon we can; Perform Orbit Trim Manoeuvres
Gain PRECISE ADCS
Change Orbital Plane and Altitude (…a little)
ESA funded with MARS Space and University of Southampton
Targets:
12µNs per Joule
60µNs Impulse Bit 24

25. Modular platform concept
From nanopower…
One-stop shop
[PUMPKIN]
[ISIS]
[IMI]
Telemetry & switching
Modular platform concept
Electric power system
Batteries
Solar arrays
Structures
…to nanoplatforms

26. CubeSat Platform Class II Payload Payload Interface and Management
Communications
Attitude determination and control
Electric power system
Batteries
Electric Propulsion

27. Concurrent Modular Design
Mission system analysis to support nanospacecraft products
New user entry into space, removing barriers to participation
ENABLING NEW USERS AND MISSIONS

28. Conclusion

29. Conclusion
CubeSats offer an exciting opportunity to put new technologies into space.
The size and cost of CubeSats enable applications too costly to be implemented previously.
CubeSat constellations are likely to be the killer APP for CubeSats.

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