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Towards a National CubeSat Program: Innovation, Education, Inspiration
Dr Ronan Wall, CubeSat Project Manager,Astrium Satellites
Unique Vehicle for Technology Development for Space
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Overview
What are CubeSats?
The Benefits of a National CubeSat Program
How a National CubeSat Program may look
Where you come in - The CubeSat Challenge for Payloads
Current Status of CubeSat Program
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The Cubesat Phenomenon
Tiny (<10kg, <10 litre) satellite
Subsystems available “off the shelf” Electronics, communications, software,
structure, power, etc
Mission Objectives for CubeSats are: Educational Scientific Research Technology demonstration
Virtually all mission objectives are typically achieved before launch
Cubesat Development
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Dozens of CubeSats have been flown
SwissCube
Canada CanX-2
Denmark DTUSat
Norway NCube2
Romania imager payload
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The Proposed UK Program is an industry/academia CubeSat mission for the purposes of technology demonstration, research, training and education
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Overview
What are CubeSats?
The Benefits of a National CubeSat Program
How a National CubeSat Program may look
Where you come in - The CubeSat Challenge for Payloads
Current Status of CubeSat Program
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Some Major Challenges for UK Space are:
Long wait time to flight for UK Science and Engineering
Research
High-reliability drives
conservative design
Must have access to new missions
and market opportunities
Graduates and apprentices lack
hands-on experience
Constant need to develop
technologies for future markets and missions
Far future R&D projects can lack
focus
Providing annual access to space
for UK Science and Engineering
Research
Providing a non-critical forum to
try new concepts Positioning UK for nanosatellite and
constellation missions
Preparing Technology and Instrumentation
for specific future opportunities
Providing real experience in real
spacecraft to university students
Quickly advancing Technology
Readiness Level by focussing on payload delivery
A National CubeSat program should meet these challenges by:
Falling numbers of Students pursuing
STEM subjects
Delivering Revolutionary outreach with
“spacecraft in a classroom”
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The National Cubesat Program will provide
a forum for accelerating your
technology concepts through Technology Readiness Levels
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CubeSats can provide Regular access to space for Scientific Research
Miniaturised sensors and platforms make good science possible
Space Plasmas, Earth observation Engineering Research
CubeSats provide access to space for innovative science payloads
Enables more science for UK researchers Flight-proves sensors for future agency missions
Regular access to space is essential to: Drive science payload development Allow researchers and engineers to develop and
maintain their skills in space technology
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Unique Educational Outreach available with CubeSats
A simple ground station for schools, akin to AMSAT UK’s visionary FUNcube project
Real data from a spacecraft (temp, current, orbit position, payload data) direct to classrooms
Teacher supported by targeted learning pack
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CubeSats will Inspire a Future Workforce
A CubeSat project with outreach can demonstrate a clear route to working in space to school and university students
CubeSat University project
School Space Project
Industry
Science
SMEMember of UK Space Community
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Overview
What are CubeSats?
The Benefits of a National CubeSat Program
How a National CubeSat Program may look
Where you come in - The CubeSat Challenge for Payloads
Current Status of CubeSat Program
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Program, engineering and payload interface
management provided by experienced entity to
encourage product quality, and knowledge transfer
Platform build by SME and / or university, increasing
knowledge base in systems technology and
training of next generation of space professional
Payloads are: • Science and Engineering Research• Technology maturation• New concepts tried in space with reduced fear of failure• Selected by competition
Inexpensive Ground Segment and Operations
provided by UK Universities
Satellite would support Education and Outreach
by allowing “outreach” data to be downloaded to
simple ground segments
Cubesat payloads teams are inspired and formed by
dissemination and networking events, enabling new entrants
into the space sector
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Proposed Pilot Mission Outline .
Launch
Platform
Announcement of Opportunities for all program elementsChallenging economic climate means funding is limited
Launch funding is highly likely to be secured however Participants who come with their own funding will be at an advantage
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Overview
What are CubeSats?
The Benefits of a National CubeSat Program
How a National CubeSat Program may look
Where you come in - The CubeSat Challenge for Payloads
Current Status of CubeSat Program
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Payload Opportunities
Central to the National program will be the opportunity for up to three payloads (TBC) to be flown
Payloads selected by competition The approach is the reverse of usual space missions
Payload must fit the available platform resources – the platform is not designed around the payload
Payload concepts will be invited: Technology demonstration Scientific or engineering research
Response time must be fast Payload must be ready in ~7 (TBC) months !
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Potential Payload Funding
Mini-Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (mKTP) reserved for ‘Winners’ of Payload competition (provided eligible)
mKTP are made up of academic/industrial partners Award is £50k maximum/year, £20k of which supplied by industrial
partner mKTP lasts ~9 months
Some support available in payload reviews and interface management
Level of mentoring not expected to be high
So prepare your payload concepts and partnerships!
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Overview
What are CubeSats?
The Benefits of a National CubeSat Program
How a National CubeSat Program may look
Where you come in - The CubeSat Challenge for Payloads
Current Status of CubeSat Program
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Current status of CubeSat Program
This weeks Government response to space IGT recognises that the CubeSat program represents an “important new initiative”
Definition study by Astrium and Clyde Space concludes next week, confirming feasibility of program
Launch of program to be discussed and hopefully approved within new UK Space Agency
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A CubeSat Program for Britain
National CubeSat program is an exemplary vehicle for innovation, technology development, research, training and outreach
Astrium, with supporting partners in academia and SME, have led the lobby for over two years for such a program
UK Government have recognised that “In 2010, there will be an important new initiative in the UK with the CubeSat Challenge”
Watch this space!
