NANOBED-MX international collaboration for nanosatellites: a real-time surveillance mission case study
- Paper number
IAC-16,B4,3,10,x35569
- Coauthor
Mr. Steve Greenland, Clyde Space Ltd, United Kingdom
- Coauthor
Mr. Christopher Lowe, University of Strathclyde/Advanced Space Concept Laboratory, United Kingdom
- Coauthor
Mr. Isaac Llorens Aymerich, International Space University (ISU), Spain
- Coauthor
Mr. Christopher Brunskill, Surrey Space Centre, United Kingdom
- Coauthor
Mr. Florian Bender, TU Muenchen, Germany
- Coauthor
Dr. Malcolm Macdonald, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
- Coauthor
Mr. Jose Oldak, Mexico
- Coauthor
Mr. Francisco Romero, MX Space A.C., Mexico
- Coauthor
Mr. Jose Humberto Torres España, MX Space A.C., Mexico
- Coauthor
Mr. Craig Clark, Clyde Space Ltd., United Kingdom
- Year
2016
- Abstract
NANOBED-MX is a UK-Mexico partnership for nanosatellite mission development, utilizing and extending the NANOBED system and facilities already deployed in the UK, based on the UK Space Agency UKube-1 mission which successfully reached end of life in August 2015. The NANOBED facilities in the UK support nanosatellite development in four key areas: a FlatSat equipped with a flight representative baseline bus of hardware and software, *craft design tool software supporting system engineering and deployment, peer to peer centric standardized processes around integration, and application-specific development for payload. Challenges tackled by the program include training and upskilling personnel within Mexico, distributed system development, remote access and testing of satellite systems, and mission-specific payload development in line with a standardized set of payload interface requirements. This work focuses on a Mexico specific mission concept: a service demonstration mission to capture images over Mexico, perform in-situ autonomous processing, and issue real-time alerts referencing coordinates in response to anomalies. Such a service model is useful for a wide range of scenarios including forest fires, security and environmental management. Representative intersatellite link and imager payload models of varying technology readiness are prepared for integration into a baseline NANOBED. This paper reports on the progress made, and the utilization of the various aspects of NANOBED in the system development so evaluating its use as tool for knowledge sharing and collaboration.
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