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Micro Satellites (VHS Format)Product Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: SatNews Published: January 2004 Product Code: R169-11 Description The seminar special on Micro Satellites is a very specialized tape. The instructor- Dr. Rick Fleeter, President and CEO of AeroAstro- has been a specialist in the small satellite industry for over 15 years. This set of two tapes condenses the content of a one day seminar into three and a half hours. The normal cost of attending this seminar is over $1000, not including travel arrangements.
The seminar describes how allowing a much larger user community to access to space - by creating new opportunities for space missions despite budget declines at NASA and other sponsors - space becomes a more accessible concept to the public, and therefore more attractive to private investment. Taking advantage of the expansion in the capabilities in microelectronics have combined to create a renaissance in development of the lowest cost, smallest spacecraft, typically weighing between 1 and 100 kilograms. In the tape, Dr. Fleeter brings the scientific, government and commerical user and space systems developer a broad, synoptic understanding of the philosophies, methods, and approaches which underlie this expanding segment of space activity. The video stresses the interplay of requirements and spacecraft capabilities which allow maintenance of a very low cost program. The couse examines traditional managerial and technical approaches which have not scaled well to small programs, and presents alternative techniques which have proven successful in minimizing mission cost while maintaining reliabilty standards among the best in the space industry. Spacecraft size and budget affect every aspect of a mission. Dr. Fleeter's seminar focuses on mission selection and tailoring, systems design and program management for maximizing the effectiveness of each program dollar. Illustrations are drawn from specific engineering approaches to minimum cost spacecraft design. Spacecraft development techniques, parts selection rationale including handling radiation effects, parts qualification requirements, and typical mission development timelines are discussed. The course includes detailed treatment of the options in spacecraft attitude determination and control as an illusion to the design options availible to the microspacecraft developer and user, and concludes with a survey of the future impact and applications of minimum mission technologies and trends. This two video set runs 3 hours and 29 minutes. Table of Contents
-Overview of technological, budget and managerial changes which drive the demand for and capabilties of microsatellites. Definitions of microsatellites. Survey of microsatellite programs. - Interactive design and requirements definition. Alternatives to mission driving requirements. Parts selection criteria and specifications. Ground operations alternativess. - Brief description of the efect of launch cost on mission cost.
- Stabilization and control systems for minimum cost missions. Listing of stabilzation alternatives. Pros and Consof various choices. Spacecraft that employ specific guidance and control strategies. - Avoiding deployablesm estimation of true cost of deployable mechanisms. How to build moving structures that work reliably in space. - Spacecraft which employed specific G&C strategies. Ways to configure the spacecraft design to ease G&C requirements and cost. Detailed description of selected low cost spacecraft G&C systems. - Do not waste precious program resources buying insurance against improbable threats. Focus on issues critical to mission success. Methods for handling radiation and space environmental threats appropriate to minimum cost missions. - Geography, documentation, redundant staffing, and error checking. Program reviews. Level of authority and group topology. - Technology drivers - information processing, electric power, attitude determination, propulsion, and launch vehicles. New missions. Cost, size and complexity trends. |
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