Bob - in addition to the Chapter 5 Pwr Generation material, this is an extremely good reference document for many CubeSat Development areas. Its open source, publicly published information provides excellent tutorial introductory material for many/most of our AMSAT CubeSat development areas. Consequently, I uploaded a copy to our GOLF SVN under "tech ref docs." I found the first few chapters very familiar given my 40 year System Engineering experience, and a great refresher for my aging brain! But I found the remaining chapters contain excellent tutorial information for the major engineering disciplines we must understand and apply to be successful in our ongoing/future CubeSat development efforts. ALL chapters include myriad hyperlinks to more material electronically published in the open literature. The material does "thin out" in the last few chapters as they appear to be 'works in progress.'
What particularly caught my attention was mention of the University of Hawaii's
Artemis CubeSat Kit they are offering new satellite developers. I had no luck finding any further information about that kit on their website, but there is an invite to contact the PoC, Dr. F. Zhu (shu@
hawaii.edu) for more information. Specifically mentioned is the availability of a 1U CubeSat structure, fully qualified to NASA and CalPoly requirements, whose mechanical pieces add up to $356.02 (not counting solar panels). That might be worth looking into as Tom Wu is researching commercially available 1U structures for FOX+(PacSat). Furthermore, it is stated that they also have a CAD package for that 1U structure, viz., a 3D model (in Autodesk Inventor) that is available. Perhaps that might be of interest to Tom K. and Marwan. Lastly, I would think Vincent might benefit from one of the references which documents the failures of many past deployable solar panel designs..................good stuff all.