First Results from the GPS Compact Total Electron Content Sensor (CTECS) on the PSSC2 Nanosat

Details First Results from the GPS Compact Total Electron Content Sensor (CTECS) on the PSSC2 Nanosat First Results from the GPS Compact Total Electron Content Sensor (CTECS) on the PSSC2 Nanosat

Dec 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufmsa31a1947b&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #SA31A-1947

Physics

[2443] Ionosphere / Midlatitude Ionosphere, [2494] Ionosphere / Instruments And Techniques

Scientific paper

The Compact Total Electron Content Sensor (CTECS) is a GPS radio occultation instrument designed for cubesat platforms that utilizes a COTS receiver, modified firmware, and a custom designed antenna. CTECS was placed on the Pico Satellite Solar Cell Testbed 2 (PSSC2) nanosat that was installed on the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135). PSSC2 was successfully released from the shuttle on 20 July 2011. After approximately 2-4 weeks of spacecraft checkout and attitude adjustments, CTECS will be powered on and begin its mission to obtain ionospheric measurements of the total electron content and scintillation. This presentation describes the CTECS instrument, presents ground test data, initial on-orbit data, as well as future flight opportunities.

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