Session
Technical Session I: New Hardware In Space
Abstract
In 1995, having built and launched twelve 50-kg micro satellites, the Surrey Space Centre made a strategic decision to develop and demonstrate a larger low-cost satellite platform. This internally-funded project became the UoSAT-12 research and development minisatellite, a 325-kg satellite demonstrating key bus and payload technologies. On 21 April, a converted SS-18 Inter Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) placed Surrey's UoSAT-12 minisatellite in a 650 km, 65° orbit. The in-orbit acquisition and check-out of the satellite have been successful. Engineers operating the satellite from Surrey's mission control centre have received initial results from attitude control, remote sensing, Global Positioning System (GPS) orbit determination, L-to-S band communications and orbit station-keeping systems.
First In-Orbit Results from the UoSAT -12 Minisatellite
In 1995, having built and launched twelve 50-kg micro satellites, the Surrey Space Centre made a strategic decision to develop and demonstrate a larger low-cost satellite platform. This internally-funded project became the UoSAT-12 research and development minisatellite, a 325-kg satellite demonstrating key bus and payload technologies. On 21 April, a converted SS-18 Inter Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) placed Surrey's UoSAT-12 minisatellite in a 650 km, 65° orbit. The in-orbit acquisition and check-out of the satellite have been successful. Engineers operating the satellite from Surrey's mission control centre have received initial results from attitude control, remote sensing, Global Positioning System (GPS) orbit determination, L-to-S band communications and orbit station-keeping systems.
