Human colonisation/exploration beyond low-orbit space: safety imperatives at conflict with the provisions of the Outer Space Treaty and other such instruments
- Paper number
IAC-05-E6.2.08
- Author
Mr. Kallun Willock, University of Sydney/University of Tokyo, Australia
- Year
2005
- Abstract
In 1994 SAPPHIRE, the first student’s micro satellite was made in Stanford University to satisfy educational objectives and give the students the chance to design, fabricate, test, launch, operate and analyze the results of a real satellite. A valuable employment for the participants was the other outcome. Since then, many micro satellite projects defined in universities of different developed and undeveloped countries. About 50
Nevertheless only some of these universities continue this trend and stop after the first experience. However there are universities like university of Toronto with the CANX series or Aalborg University with AAU Cubesats that extend these projects. They start from sending an object in to space and keep on sending the same object with more serious goals and equipments. In this case, the first cube’s bus is used in less expensive later ones to demonstrate new technologies. This policy can be used to diminish the costs of space-based researches by decreasing the costs of the satellite bus and put upon the research needs.
In this way Nano or Bio technology products can be examined. New substances can be discovered and it can be a good test bed for new space technologies. Even Interplanetary missions are possible alternates in future that can be done by these experimental low-cost cubesat series.
Investigations can be oriented to an appropriate condition by politicize the cubesat projects missions. USA with the biggest range of cubesat projects plays an important role and can direct all the university projects in to a specific direction and gets beneficial conclusions.
Detecting ELF radio emission of seismic activity during earthquakes that is the mission of quakesat or performing experiment on E. Coli bacteria in space by GeneSat-1 are good examples of low-cost successful demonstration technology missions. This is the point that should be considered as a case that affects use of small spacecrafts.
This paper will discuss cubesat’s role in future space developments and new policies for getting maximum benefit of the money invested in space projects.
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