Small satellites, such as CubeSats, are increasingly being called upon to perform missions traditionally ascribed to larger satellite systems. However, the market of components and hardware for small satellites, particularly CubeSats, still falls short of providing the necessary capabilities required by ever increasing mission demands. One way to overcome this shortfall is to develop the ability to customize every build. By utilizing fabrication methods such as additive manufacturing, mission specific capabilities can be built into a system, or into the structure, that commercial off-the-shelf components may not be able to provide. A partnership between the University of Texas at El Paso, COSMIAC at the University of New Mexico, Northrop Grumman, and the NASA Glenn Research Center is looking into using additive manufacturing techniques to build a complete CubeSat, under the Small Spacecraft Technology Program. The W. M. Keck Center at the University of Texas at El Paso has previously demonstrated the ability to embed electronics and wires into the addtively manufactured structures. Using this technique, features such as antennas and propulsion systems can be included into the CubeSat structural body. Of interest to this paper, the team is investigating the ability to take a commercial micro pulsed plasma thruster and embed it into the printing process. Tests demonstrating the dielectric strength of the printed material and proof-of-concept demonstration of the printed thruster will be shown.


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    Titel :

    Using Additive Manufacturing to Print a CubeSat Propulsion System


    Beteiligte:
    Marshall W. M. (Autor:in) / Zemba M. (Autor:in) / Shemelya C. (Autor:in) / Wicker R. (Autor:in) / Espalin D. (Autor:in) / MacDonald E. (Autor:in) / Keif C. (Autor:in) / Kwas A. (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2015


    Format / Umfang :

    14 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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