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Testing Program For Kysat‐1, Jason Robert Bratcher
Testing Program For Kysat‐1, Jason Robert Bratcher
University of Kentucky Master's Theses
Years of success in the aerospace industry has taught Kentucky Space several lessons. This thesis will summarize the accomplishments in an attempt to formulate a well-defined program for designing and testing small spacecraft in an environment with strict financial restraints. The motivation for producing this well-defined platform for testing small spacecraft arose when Kentucky Space became the liaison between NASA and its customers for the NanoRacks and CubeLab module program. Having a solid program for testing small spacecraft will allow future student programs to easily set standards for experiment payloads. Also by discussing obstacles for smaller programs such as restraints …
Development Of A Reusable Cubesat Satellite Bus Architecture For The Kysat-1 Spacecraft, Tyler James Doering
Development Of A Reusable Cubesat Satellite Bus Architecture For The Kysat-1 Spacecraft, Tyler James Doering
University of Kentucky Master's Theses
This thesis describes the design, implementation and testing of a spacecraft bus implemented on KySat-1, a picosatellite scheduled to launch late 2009 to early 2010. The spacecraft bus is designed to be a robust reusable bus architecture using commercially available off the shelf components and subsystems. The bus designed and implemented for the KySat-1 spacecraft will serve as the basis for a series of future Kentucky Space Consortium missions. The spacecraft bus consists of attitude determination and control subsystem, communications subsystem, command and data handling subsystem, thermal subsystem, power subsystem, and structures and mechanisms. The spacecraft bus design is described …