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Business Case For A Constellation Of 6u Solar Powered Cubesats In Leo, Corey Bergsrud, Jeremy Straub, Matthew Clausing, Johnathan Mcclure, James Casler, Sima Noghanian
Business Case For A Constellation Of 6u Solar Powered Cubesats In Leo, Corey Bergsrud, Jeremy Straub, Matthew Clausing, Johnathan Mcclure, James Casler, Sima Noghanian
Jeremy Straub
This paper presents a business case for launching a constellation of 6U Solar Power CubeSats (SPCS) to low-Earth orbit (LEO) to provide power to other spacecraft. This approach may prove economically feasible as a business endeavor, as it allows power to be transmitted in a high-density manner via microwave frequencies reducing the collection surface area required on the consumer spacecraft significantly and reducing the requirement for energy storage.
Several 6U SPCS units can target their energy streams to form a swath of energy to provide an increased aggregate level of power transfer to a particular craft as it flies though …
Open Beyond Orbit: Using The Designs From The Open Prototype For Educational Nanosats Outside Of Earth Orbit, Jeremy Straub
Open Beyond Orbit: Using The Designs From The Open Prototype For Educational Nanosats Outside Of Earth Orbit, Jeremy Straub
Jeremy Straub
This paper presents an overview of the Open Prototype for Educational NanoSats (OPEN) and its prospective use in interplanetary missions. OPEN is framework to facilitate the low-cost creation of CubeSat-class spacecraft via using publically available (provided by the OPEN project) de- signs, software, fabrication instructions and test plans. The base open configuration is designed to be able to be produced with a parts budget of under $5,000. Despite this low cost, it is a very ro- bust spacecraft (with capabilities meeting or exceeding many of the vendor-kit solutions which cost eight-or-more times this amount).
Two approaches for using the OPEN …