A modular design for rapid-response telecoms and navigation missions

Details A modular design for rapid-response telecoms and navigation missions A modular design for rapid-response telecoms and navigation missions

Nov 2004

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Proceedings of The 4S Symposium: Small Satellites, Systems and Services (ESA SP-571). 20 - 24 September 2004, La Rochelle, Franc

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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and Los Alamos National Laboratory are together building the Cibola Flight Experiment (CFESat), a mission with the aim of flight-proving a reconfigurable processor payload intended for a Low Earth Orbit system. The mission will survey portions of the VHF and UHF radio spectra. The satellite will be launched by the Space Test Program in September 2006 on the USAF Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) using the EELV's Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) that allows up to six small satellites to be launched as "piggyback" passengers with larger spacecraft. The payload is based on networks of reprogrammable, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to process the received signals for ionospheric and lightning studies. The objective is to validate the on-orbit use of commercial, reconfigurable FPGA technology utilizing several different single-event upset mitigation schemes. It will also detect and measure impulsive events that occur in a complex background. SSTL's satellite platform is based on a new, ESPA- compatible, structure housing subsystems and equipments with proven flight heritage from SSTL's disaster monitoring constellation (DMC) and the Topsat mission satellite due for launch in 2005. The structure is mechanically quite complex for a microsatellite having both deployed solar panels and a pair of long booms as part of the payload. The satellite design is highly constrained by the mass and volume requirements of the EELV/EPSA.

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