Abstract The goal of the Autonomous Mobile On-Orbit Diagnostic System (AMODS) is to use the small satellite platform to provide a conventional satellite with cost-effective on-orbit assessment and repair services. AMODS, which will service both new and legacy spacecraft, is comprised of (1) several “repair” CubeSat-class satellites (RSats) with manipulable arms that will latch onto and locomote around a host satellite; and (2) one self-propelled transport CubeSat (BRICSat) designed to successively deliver multiple RSats to their respective host spacecraft on-orbit. AMODS will be validated in three phases. Phase one focuses on propulsive and proximity operations of the BRICSat vehicle and includes the launch of BRICSat-P on 20 May 2015 and BRICSat-D in 2017. Phase two, the 2017 launch of the prototype repair unit, RSat-P, will validate the on-orbit effectiveness of compact robotic manipulators. The follow-on launches will continue to improve performance of both satellites in order to demonstrate key capabilities that will make the AMODS vision a reality. This publication presents an overview of the AMODS system and its potential to effect a paradigm shift in space operations. It details the considerations and required capabilities that guided the design of the BRICSat transfer vehicle and the robotic manipulators and end-effectors on the RSat unit.


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    Title :

    Leveraging the Autonomous Mobile On-Orbit Diagnostic System to Initiate a Doctrinal Shift in Spacecraft Operations


    Contributors:
    Hanlon, E. A. (author) / Keegan, B. P. (author) / Lange, M. E. (author) / Pittman, J. K. (author) / Wenberg, D. L. (author) / Roser, J. G. (author) / Kang, J. S. (author)


    Publication date :

    2017-01-01


    Size :

    34 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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