PRELIMINARY SYSTEM DESIGN OF A ”SWEET” CUBESAT

Paper number

IAC-18,B4,1,10,x44224

Author

Mr. Ahmed Farid, Germany, Telespazio VEGA Deutschland GmbH

Coauthor

Mrs. Evelyn Schaible, Germany, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg

Coauthor

Mr. Dennis D’Argento, Germany, Airbus Defence and Space

Coauthor

Prof. Karl Trottler, Germany, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg

Year

2018

Abstract

Due to the exploding development of the world’s population within the last century and the ongoing
grow of the industries polluting the environment the access to drinkable water will soon become more
than a distant trouble. Even today there is about 30 percent of the world’s population without secured
access to clean water as stated by the International water Management Institute. This deficit on the most
basic human need contributes to around 3 million deaths every year. The situation in South-America and
Africa is especially bad. For example 40
An interesting approach supporting the solution of this problem is the mission concept ”SWEET -
CubeSat Constellation”. The main idea is to use space bound, low cost hyperspectral imager to monitor
Syanobacterial blooms ”cHAB” in water lakes in endangered countries. A feasibility study has shown that
the spatial resolution of the instrument would be similar to earlier flown, more expensive instruments such
as MODIS.
The paper in hand compromises a preliminary design of the satellite architecture as well as first
requirements for the most important subsystems. Besides the already developed imager, the design
incorporates other innovative technology approaches such as a reusable software framework, an open
source communication link as well as a new storage concept based on commercial of the shelf SSDs and
RAID configuration.

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