Abstract On 28 June 2000 the UK’s first nano-satellite, SNAP-1, was launched from Plesetsk on a Cosmos launch vehicle, together with a Russian COSPAS-SARSAT satellite called Nadezhda. An SSTL-built Chinese micro-satellite, Tsinghua-1, was also flown. The main mission objective of SNAP-1 was to demonstrate that a sophisticated, fully agile nano-satellite could be constructed rapidly, and at very low cost, using an extension of the modular-COTS-based design philosophy pioneered by SSTL for its micro-satellites. The SNAP-1 mission has been highly successful, becoming the first nano-satellite (i.e. sub-10kg satellite) to have demonstrated full attitude and orbit control via its miniature momentum-wheel-based attitude control system and its butane-propellantbased propulsion system. This paper discusses Surrey’s design philosophy for nano-satellites, and describes the architecture of the SNAP-1 vehicle in this context. The initial results of SNAP-1’s mission are reviewed, and future exploitation plans discussed.


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    Titel :

    SNAP-1: Design, Construction, Launch and Early Operations Phase Results of a Modular COTS-Based Nano-satellite


    Beteiligte:
    Underwood, C. (Autor:in) / Lappas, V. (Autor:in) / Richardson, G. (Autor:in) / Salvignol, J. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2002-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    9 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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