Session
Poster Session 2
Abstract
Planetary Systems Corporation (PSC) developed the Canisterized Satellite Dispenser (CSD) to provide a more secure and predictable deployment system for CubeSats of different sizes. The CSD is designed to provide predictable and consistent payload deployment performance. Though the CSD has proven its safety and reliability, there is still not enough data required to predict accurately CSD linear and angular deployment rates. In the first phase of research, various computer models were developed and tuned in order to compare their predictions with respect to experimental in-lab deployments, and to understand better the deployment dynamics and the variables that affect performance. The next phase of research currently underway involves further investigation into the perturbations encountered during lab experiments, execute further tuning of the computer model, as well as preparing to validate lab data with micro-gravity experiments conducted at NASA Glenn Research Center's Zero-G Facility drop towers.
Testing and Validating Deployment Profiles of the Canisterized Satellite Dispenser (CSD)
Planetary Systems Corporation (PSC) developed the Canisterized Satellite Dispenser (CSD) to provide a more secure and predictable deployment system for CubeSats of different sizes. The CSD is designed to provide predictable and consistent payload deployment performance. Though the CSD has proven its safety and reliability, there is still not enough data required to predict accurately CSD linear and angular deployment rates. In the first phase of research, various computer models were developed and tuned in order to compare their predictions with respect to experimental in-lab deployments, and to understand better the deployment dynamics and the variables that affect performance. The next phase of research currently underway involves further investigation into the perturbations encountered during lab experiments, execute further tuning of the computer model, as well as preparing to validate lab data with micro-gravity experiments conducted at NASA Glenn Research Center's Zero-G Facility drop towers.
