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Distributed Electrical Power System In Cubesat Applications, Robert Burt

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The cubesat spacecraft was conceived over ten years ago. Since that time, close to 100 cubesat satellites have either been launched or are in the process of construction. Although started as an educational teaching tool, the cubesat is gaining popularity in the satellite industry and is making inroads as a standard architecture for many nano and pico satellite applications. The electrical power system for the cubesat class satellites almost exclusively conforms to a centralized architecture.

This thesis researches the potential of using a distributed architecture for the cubesat power system. There are several key advantages of a distributed architecture that …