Session
Session 3: Next On The Pad 1
Abstract
The Dellingr spacecraft is NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC’s) first build of a 6U CubeSat. A key driver of the Dellingr project is the recognition that NASA needs to infuse the emergent CubeSat capability into our science missions to support small, focused science objectives while also enabling larger strategic constellation missions in support of Decadal Survey science goals. The primary objective of the Dellingr project was to develop a cost-effective model for CubeSat and SmallSat builds at GSFC with lean end-to-end systems and processes to enable lower-cost, scalable risk, systems. Dellingr is a balance of commercial off the shelf (COTS) and in-house subsystems, leveraging the strengths of both the booming commercial market and existing GSFC infrastructure, capabilities, and experience with similar “Do No Harm” missions, such as sounding rockets. Dellingr carries an advanced gated time-of-flight ion/neutral mass spectrometer (INMS) and three fluxgate magnetometers. Two of these magnetometers are internal to the spacecraft, and will be used to test and validate a new software algorithm that compensates for and removes spacecraft interference; the third magnetometer sits at the end of a 52-cm boom. Together, these instruments will measure the space weather effects of solar wind-magnetosphere coupling on Earth's ion and neutral upper atmosphere.
Presentation
Dellingr: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's First 6U Spacecraft
The Dellingr spacecraft is NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC’s) first build of a 6U CubeSat. A key driver of the Dellingr project is the recognition that NASA needs to infuse the emergent CubeSat capability into our science missions to support small, focused science objectives while also enabling larger strategic constellation missions in support of Decadal Survey science goals. The primary objective of the Dellingr project was to develop a cost-effective model for CubeSat and SmallSat builds at GSFC with lean end-to-end systems and processes to enable lower-cost, scalable risk, systems. Dellingr is a balance of commercial off the shelf (COTS) and in-house subsystems, leveraging the strengths of both the booming commercial market and existing GSFC infrastructure, capabilities, and experience with similar “Do No Harm” missions, such as sounding rockets. Dellingr carries an advanced gated time-of-flight ion/neutral mass spectrometer (INMS) and three fluxgate magnetometers. Two of these magnetometers are internal to the spacecraft, and will be used to test and validate a new software algorithm that compensates for and removes spacecraft interference; the third magnetometer sits at the end of a 52-cm boom. Together, these instruments will measure the space weather effects of solar wind-magnetosphere coupling on Earth's ion and neutral upper atmosphere.
