Session
Weekend Poster Session 2
Location
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Abstract
MEMESat-1 is a satellite mission out of the University of Georgia Small Satellite Research Laboratory. MEMESat-1 utilizes a passive magnetic attitude control (PMAC) system as its attitude determinations control system (ADCS). Due to the fact that MEMEsat-1 is funded by a non-profit, Let’s Go to Space, and does not have restrictive pointing requirements, the PMAC system is an advantageous ADCS solution. PMAC also requires no power to operate as opposed to an active magnetic attitude control. This is important because it allows more of MEMESat-1’s power to go toward payload operations.
Instead, the PMAC system utilizes an internal bar magnets, nutation dampers and hysteresis rods, to stabilize the system as a combatant environmental torques in the low Earth orbit (LEO) environment. We will make our simulation in MATLAB song with its Aerospace and Satellite Communication Toolbox. We will be expecting a 70% decrease in nutation and spin via the PMAC components. Our ADCS will be finished when the simulations can prove the components to be able to meet our pointing requirements.
Development of MEMESat-1 Passive Magnetic Attitude Control ADCS Simulations
Utah State University, Logan, UT
MEMESat-1 is a satellite mission out of the University of Georgia Small Satellite Research Laboratory. MEMESat-1 utilizes a passive magnetic attitude control (PMAC) system as its attitude determinations control system (ADCS). Due to the fact that MEMEsat-1 is funded by a non-profit, Let’s Go to Space, and does not have restrictive pointing requirements, the PMAC system is an advantageous ADCS solution. PMAC also requires no power to operate as opposed to an active magnetic attitude control. This is important because it allows more of MEMESat-1’s power to go toward payload operations.
Instead, the PMAC system utilizes an internal bar magnets, nutation dampers and hysteresis rods, to stabilize the system as a combatant environmental torques in the low Earth orbit (LEO) environment. We will make our simulation in MATLAB song with its Aerospace and Satellite Communication Toolbox. We will be expecting a 70% decrease in nutation and spin via the PMAC components. Our ADCS will be finished when the simulations can prove the components to be able to meet our pointing requirements.
