The Edison Demonstration of Smallsat Networks (EDSN) is a technology demonstration mission that provides a proof of concept for a constellation or swarm of satellites performing coordinated activities. Networked swarms of small spacecraft will open new horizons in astronomy, Earth observations and solar physics. Their range of applications include the formation of synthetic aperture radars for Earth sensing systems, large aperture observatories for next generation telescopes and the collection of spatially distributed measurements of time varying systems, probing the Earths magnetosphere, Earth-Sun interactions and the Earths geopotential. EDSN is a swarm of eight 1.5U Cubesats with crosslink, downlink and science collection capabilities developed by the NASA Ames Research Center under the Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) within the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD). This paper describes the concept of operations of the mission and planned scientific measurements. The development of the 8 satellites for EDSN necessitated the fabrication of prototypes, Flatsats and a total of 16 satellites to support the concurrent engineering and rapid development. This paper has a specific focus on the development, integration and testing of a large number of units including the lessons learned throughout the project development.


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    Titel :

    EDSN Development Lessons Learned


    Beteiligte:
    Chartres, James (Autor:in) / Sanchez, Hugo S. (Autor:in) / Hanson, John (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites ; 2014 ; Logan, Utah, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2014-08-05


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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