The role of small, cost effective spacecraft in the developing countries: the Algerian experience.

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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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Small satellites are becoming increasingly important in the context of capability building in space technology for the developing countries. The use of commercial of the shelf technology "COST" and focus on specific missions can speed up the development process, providing faster as well as cheaper access to space. This paper describes a highly successful small satellite programme which has also demonstrated a rapid, cost effective method of transferring expertise in spacecraft engineering, satellite orbital manoeuvres and orbital operations for a core team of eleven engineers from the National Centre of Space Techniques using Alsat-1, Algeria's first enhanced earth observation microsatellite. The approach was based on "learning by doing" in a sense that the know how transfer team had to entirely construct and fully test their own training model TM which represents one of SSTL's recent microsatellite missions. The TM microsatellite uses a modular multipurpose bus capable of supporting communications and earth observation payloads. The primary conclusions of this paper are that small satellite programmes can provide low cost, rapid response access to the space environment and an ideal technology transfer mechanism for countries with low financial inputs for space and wishing to take their first steps toward a national space programme.

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