Enabling Low Cost, Responsive Nanosatellite Launches
- Paper number
IAC-12,D2,7,2,x15761
- Author
Mr. Steve Cook, Dynetics, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Barry King, Dynetics, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Bill Hughes, Dynetics, United States
- Year
2012
- Abstract
Dynetics has a innovative launch concept that can place a 10-25 kg satellite into a 750 km low Earth orbit for a wide variety of payloads. The need for on-demand intelligence and communications in remote geographical locations is increasing the requirement for rapidly deployable and tailorable space assets. The personal electronics revolution that has put enormous processing capabilities into small hand-held devices is now being extended into space. Nanosats are emerging as key assets for a broad array of federal agencies including DoD, NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and universities. Dynetics’ initial approach will deliver a 10 kg satellite to a 750 km orbit via a direct insertion trajectory on the first orbital mission. This capability is based on Dynetics successfully demonstrated Multi-Purpose NanoMissile System (MNMS) architecture, which has been matured over the past three years. Dynetics successfully demonstrated the performance of a nitrous oxide-ethane 3,000 pound thrust booster in a 60-second static fire test, which proved our design concept. This booster stage, coupled with an innovative Peroxide/Kerosene upperstage - recently demonstrated at Dynetics in ground tests - is easily adaptable with a building block approach to increase payload throw weight and orbital altitudes up to 25kg to LEO.
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