Optical Instruments Will Drive Satellite Sizing
- Paper number
IAC-07-B1.3.09
- Author
Dr. Andrew Court, TNO Science and Industry, The Netherlands
- Coauthor
Bryan de Goeij, TNO Science and Industry, The Netherlands
- Coauthor
- Coauthor
Mr. Johan Leijtens, TNO TPD, The Netherlands
- Year
2007
- Abstract
Ever increasing integration and miniaturization of electronics provide smaller and more efficient systems and entire families of microsatellites are being built, for example the Myriade microsats. Currently several programs have been started to miniaturize certain payload sensors and actuators, but reducing the aperture and detector pixel size in optical instruments is necessarily limited by functional performance constraints. The need for a certain aperture and baffle size will in the end drive the size of satellites with a high resolution optical payload. This again will drive people in the direction of flying constellations of small satellites instead of larger satellites which carry several larger instruments.
- Abstract document
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