the lyon femto orbital deployer
- Paper number
IAC-08.B4.5.3
- Author
Mr. Spas Balinov, INSA de Lyon, France
- Year
2008
- Abstract
The CubeSat concept introduction made space technology and launch opportunities more accessible to Universities and Research institutions. Over the past 5 years more than 30 picosatellites were built and launched into Low Earth Orbit, other 45 picosatellites will be launched in the next 3 years. First distributed picosatellites space missions will be launched in the years to come and actually, there are 3 commercialized deployment systems for such missions – the Poly Pico-satellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD, USA), the Single Picosatellite Launcher (SPL, Germany) and the eXperimental Push Out Deployer (X-POD, Canada). The inconvenience for those deployers is the impossibility to have separated satellite deployment and if necessary with different speed ejection. The aim of the LFOD research project is to develop a reliable low cost deployment mechanism for 3 or more CubeSat units. In order to meet the future distributed space mission’s requirements, the new deployer will have the possibility of sequential ejection of the satellites and ejection speed adjustment depending on the mission. The project will be realized at the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (INSA de Lyon) in cooperation with the French Space Agency (CNES) under the frame of the "PERSEUS" project. The first prototype shall be ready for ground testing at the beginning of September 2008 and the first In Orbit Demonstration is scheduled on the Vega Maiden Flight for the end of 2008.
- Abstract document
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