Session
Technical Session III: Military Uses Of Small Satellites In Distributed Systems
Abstract
Part of the AFOSRlDARPAINASA GSFC University Nanosatellite Program, this project is a joint effort among Arizona State University (ASU), University of Colorado at Boulder (CU), and New Mexico State University (NMSU). Aptly named Three Comer Sat (3ASat), our proposed constellation of three identical nanosatellites will demonstrate stereo imaging, virtual formation operations, cellular-phone communications, and innovative command and data handling. In addition, each University has the opportunity to fly an individual unique payload should it desire. With our team's heritage in space flight (CU's DATA-CHASER payload via Space Shuttle, August 1997), conventional satellite design (CU's Citizen Explorer via Delta, December 1999), and nanosatellite design (ASU's 6 kg ASUSatl via OSP Minotaur, September 1999), our constellation will be ready for launch in late 2001. This paper describes ASU's functional areas of responsibility towards meeting the 3ASat mission objectives: overall Project Management; Electrical Power System; Structures, Mechanisms, Thermal, and Radiation; Attitude / Orbit Determination and Control; ASU Micropropulsion experiment; and Integration. The companion papers by our consortium partners describe their respective areas of responsibility: CU - Command & Data Handling, Distributed Operations, Stereoscopic Imaging, Science Operations, and Spacecraft Operations; and NMSU - Communications, LEO Te1ecomm Services, Intersatellite Communications, and Ground Stations and Network.
Three Corner Sat Constellation - Arizona State University; Management; Electrical Power System; Structures, Mechanisms, Thermal, and Radiation; Attitude / Orbit Determination and Control; ASU Micropropulsion Experiment; and Integration
Part of the AFOSRlDARPAINASA GSFC University Nanosatellite Program, this project is a joint effort among Arizona State University (ASU), University of Colorado at Boulder (CU), and New Mexico State University (NMSU). Aptly named Three Comer Sat (3ASat), our proposed constellation of three identical nanosatellites will demonstrate stereo imaging, virtual formation operations, cellular-phone communications, and innovative command and data handling. In addition, each University has the opportunity to fly an individual unique payload should it desire. With our team's heritage in space flight (CU's DATA-CHASER payload via Space Shuttle, August 1997), conventional satellite design (CU's Citizen Explorer via Delta, December 1999), and nanosatellite design (ASU's 6 kg ASUSatl via OSP Minotaur, September 1999), our constellation will be ready for launch in late 2001. This paper describes ASU's functional areas of responsibility towards meeting the 3ASat mission objectives: overall Project Management; Electrical Power System; Structures, Mechanisms, Thermal, and Radiation; Attitude / Orbit Determination and Control; ASU Micropropulsion experiment; and Integration. The companion papers by our consortium partners describe their respective areas of responsibility: CU - Command & Data Handling, Distributed Operations, Stereoscopic Imaging, Science Operations, and Spacecraft Operations; and NMSU - Communications, LEO Te1ecomm Services, Intersatellite Communications, and Ground Stations and Network.
