Over the past few years interest in the development and use of small satellites has rapidly gained momentum with universities, commercial, and government organizations. In a few years we may see networked clusters of dozens or even hundreds of small, cheap, easily replaceable satellites working together in place of the large, expensive and difficult-to-replace satellites now in orbit. Standards based satellite buses and deployment mechanisms, such as the CubeSat and Poly Pico-satellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD), have stimulated growth in this area. The use of small satellites is also proving to be a cost effective capability in many areas traditionally dominated by large satellites, though many challenges remain. Currently many of these small satellites undergo very little testing prior to flight. As these small satellites move from technology demonstration and student projects toward more complex operational assets, it is expected that the standards for verification and validation will increase.


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    Title :

    Small Projects Rapid Integration and Test Environment (SPRITE): Application for Increasing Robutness


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    NATO CSO STO AVT-210 Specialist Meeting on Risk and Reliability Assessment and Validation for Small Spacecraft ; 2013 ; Karlstad, Sweden


    Publication date :

    2013-05-13


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English