Session
Weekend Poster Session 1
Location
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Abstract
The members of the Guidance and Navigation Control team (GNC), whose primary goal is to calculate the commands needed to steer the Cubesat where it is desired to be, determine the CubeSat's orbital parameters such as the positions, and adjust the path of the CubeSat to meet mission requirements, will be conducting research at the University of Georgia Small Satellite Research Laboratory (SSRL). This research will be focused on helping test the Attitude Determination Control System (ADCS) of the Multiview Computational Onmoard Imager (MOCI) CubeSat, which is a system that is responsible for determining and maintaining the orientation of the CubeSat. According to the University Nanosatellite Program (UNP), which is the lab's primary stakeholder, the purpose of the ADCS Verification Test, which is a test that ensures the CubeSat points in the desired nadir direction for capturing accurate images of specific areas such as coastal areas on the Earth's surface. Under this ADCS verification test, there are eight requirement verification methods (RVM). The research examines the first verification test, ADCS-01. ADCS-01 is a verification test to verify that the Cubesat's wheels moved at the requested speed and that it commanded the wheels to spin. ADCS-01 states that the reaction wheels shall be able to rotate fast enough to keep the maximum boresight error within 25% of the distance that makes up the primary imager's field of view (FOV) nadir ground coverage.
Development of the MOCI ADCS-01 Verification Test
Utah State University, Logan, UT
The members of the Guidance and Navigation Control team (GNC), whose primary goal is to calculate the commands needed to steer the Cubesat where it is desired to be, determine the CubeSat's orbital parameters such as the positions, and adjust the path of the CubeSat to meet mission requirements, will be conducting research at the University of Georgia Small Satellite Research Laboratory (SSRL). This research will be focused on helping test the Attitude Determination Control System (ADCS) of the Multiview Computational Onmoard Imager (MOCI) CubeSat, which is a system that is responsible for determining and maintaining the orientation of the CubeSat. According to the University Nanosatellite Program (UNP), which is the lab's primary stakeholder, the purpose of the ADCS Verification Test, which is a test that ensures the CubeSat points in the desired nadir direction for capturing accurate images of specific areas such as coastal areas on the Earth's surface. Under this ADCS verification test, there are eight requirement verification methods (RVM). The research examines the first verification test, ADCS-01. ADCS-01 is a verification test to verify that the Cubesat's wheels moved at the requested speed and that it commanded the wheels to spin. ADCS-01 states that the reaction wheels shall be able to rotate fast enough to keep the maximum boresight error within 25% of the distance that makes up the primary imager's field of view (FOV) nadir ground coverage.
