AMSAT NextGen Program Progress
Just to give everyone a little update on how the AMSAT NextGen Program is doing @ Binghamton University . . .
(a) CONTROL & EXPERIMENT SYSTEMS - The Systems Engineering students are doing well analyzing the ARISSat documentation and will be scheduling meetings with the primary AMSAT engineering contact to discuss documentation questions.
- Identified Design Changes Needing to Occur for NextGen: * The Control/Safety Timer needs to be adapted to conform with the CubeSat deployment switch standard * Consolidation of Camera functionality into a separate camera payload board (functionality is currently spread across a number of boards in the stack)
(b) RF SYSTEMS - The Systems Engineering students are doing well analyzing the ARISSat documentation and will be scheduling meetings with the primary AMSAT engineering contact to discuss documentation questions.
- Identified Design Changes Needing to Occur for NextGen: * Antenna design choice - single dual-band vs dual mono-band * New RF container design needed
(c) POWER & STRUCTURE SYSTEMS - The Systems Engineering students are doing well analyzing the ARISSat documentation and will be scheduling meetings with the primary AMSAT engineering contact to discuss documentation questions. - The Hardware Engineering students have been busy creating a preliminary design for solar panel deployment and use of supercapacitors to replace the battery. A Preliminary Design Review is being scheduled in mid-November with the AMSAT Engineering Team.
- Identified Design Changes Needing to Occur for NextGen: * Replace Battery with modular stacks of Supercapacitors in parallel to the Solar Panels * Shrink ICB (Interconnect Board) to fit within CubeSat frame * Reduce PSU footprint by moving camera power function to a Camera Payload Board (CPB) * Slight PSU voltage supply design change * Remove test/program load functionality from ICB to external test board (XTB) via standard CubeSat & PPOD maintenance ports (per CubeSat spec.)
We are still on-target to have an engineering model ready for the AMSAT table at the 2010 Dayton Hamvention with readiness for launch later in 2010.
Alex Harvilchuck, N3NP NextGen Program Manager
So Arisssat or suitsat 2 whatever it is called is now going to be ready at the end of 2010?
Robert WB5MZO
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:37:17 -0500 From: amsat@elkmtn.org To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT NextGen Program Progress
Just to give everyone a little update on how the AMSAT NextGen Program is doing @ Binghamton University . . .
(a) CONTROL & EXPERIMENT SYSTEMS
- The Systems Engineering students are doing well analyzing the ARISSat
documentation and will be scheduling meetings with the primary AMSAT engineering contact to discuss documentation questions.
- Identified Design Changes Needing to Occur for NextGen:
- The Control/Safety Timer needs to be adapted to conform with the
CubeSat deployment switch standard
- Consolidation of Camera functionality into a separate camera payload
board (functionality is currently spread across a number of boards in the stack)
(b) RF SYSTEMS
- The Systems Engineering students are doing well analyzing the ARISSat
documentation and will be scheduling meetings with the primary AMSAT engineering contact to discuss documentation questions.
- Identified Design Changes Needing to Occur for NextGen:
- Antenna design choice - single dual-band vs dual mono-band
- New RF container design needed
(c) POWER & STRUCTURE SYSTEMS
- The Systems Engineering students are doing well analyzing the ARISSat
documentation and will be scheduling meetings with the primary AMSAT engineering contact to discuss documentation questions.
- The Hardware Engineering students have been busy creating a
preliminary design for solar panel deployment and use of supercapacitors to replace the battery. A Preliminary Design Review is being scheduled in mid-November with the AMSAT Engineering Team.
- Identified Design Changes Needing to Occur for NextGen:
- Replace Battery with modular stacks of Supercapacitors in parallel to
the Solar Panels
- Shrink ICB (Interconnect Board) to fit within CubeSat frame
- Reduce PSU footprint by moving camera power function to a Camera
Payload Board (CPB)
- Slight PSU voltage supply design change
- Remove test/program load functionality from ICB to external test board
(XTB) via standard CubeSat & PPOD maintenance ports (per CubeSat spec.)
We are still on-target to have an engineering model ready for the AMSAT table at the 2010 Dayton Hamvention with readiness for launch later in 2010.
Alex Harvilchuck, N3NP NextGen Program Manager
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So Arisssat or suitsat 2 whatever it is called is now going to be ready at the end of 2010?
It would seem that the first bullet point in nearly month old news (see below) describes a portion of the relationship of ARISSat and NextGen, which is a future satellite ...
<quote> + Intial analysis of ARISSat-1, documenting the systems, and analysis of the lessons learned from ARISSat-1 and other prior spacecraft to create a building block architecture for future satellites. </quote>
In case the news was missed the first time here is another copy ...
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-291.02 AMSAT, IBM, SUNY-Binghamton Announce NextGen CubeSat Development
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 291.02
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
October 18, 2009 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-291.02
AMSAT will work with a university student engineering team to develop the NextGen Cubesat.
NextGen Program Manager, Alex Harvilchuck, N3NP introduced this new program at the AMSAT Symposium. Alex revealed program goals and its initial plans with a paper in the Proceedings and presentations to the AMSAT Board of Directors and to the attendees during Symposium sessions.
NextGen consists of AMSAT volunteer mentors working with IBM Global Services Systems Engineering Division, and SUNY-Binghamton (also called University of Binghamton) senior level engineering students participating in their 'capstone' engineering project.
Alex summarized the NexGen program goals:
+ Intial analysis of ARISSat-1, documenting the systems, and analysis of the lessons learned from ARISSat-1 and other prior spacecraft to create a building block architecture for future satellites.
+ Open, modular, evolutionary, and documented design based on this analysis.
+ Redesigning the ARISSat-1 Power Systems into a next generation power system using supercapacitors instead of batteries and reducing the footprint of some of the boards.
+ Analysis and modification to the structure to incorporate deployable solar panels with a scalable design that will work for 1U, 2U and 3U sizes.
+ Design a Picosat-class bus structure that AMSAT, or any other Univer- sity, can use for 1U, 2U, or 3U CubeSat spacecraft. AMSAT could make the open design available at low-to-no-cost to qualified University groups.
+ An Engineering Model of the NextGen CubeSat spacecraft bus will be on display at the Dayton Hamvention AMSAT Booth for everyone to study.
Alex summarized, "Starting with our initial core team of 34 students, plus advisers, mentors and volunteers at Binghamton University this will be an ongoing effort. It is not a one time event, but the start of a stable, evolutionary design process that will further STEM (Sci- ence, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) with the Next Generation of engineers and amateur radio operators. We are looking for other individuals and University/School teams to participate in all aspects of the spacecraft design - RF Systems - Guidance, Navigation, Control & Experiment Systems - Power & Structure Systems."
Volunteer mentors are needed! Even if you only have an hour a week, you can mentor a student over the phone or you can peer review a document that the students are working on. If you have more than an hour a week, you can implement a small design change to an existing subsystem; you could respin the board layout to meet a reduced form factor; you could redesign a module to use different technology. Contact Alex via e-mail at amsat@elkmtn.org .
AMSAT's Board of Directors has approved the support of the University of Binghamton NextGen Cubesat Proposal and agreed to provide $1,200.00 in immediate funding to the Binghamton Foundation to support student expenses and initially budgeted $10,000.00 to cover material costs associated with hardware development between September 2009 and May 2010. The Board will review progress at the end of the first semester.
[ANS thanks Alex, N3NP and AMSAT Board of Directors for the above information]
/EX
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org Editor, AMSAT News Service Copy Editor, AMSAT Journal
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rocky Jones" orbitjet@hotmail.com To: amsat@elkmtn.org; "Amsat BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:37 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT NextGen Program Progress
So Arisssat or suitsat 2 whatever it is called is now going to be ready at the end of 2010?
Robert WB5MZO
Hi Robert, WB5MZO
And what about the previous project for EAGLE .......it died ?
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