Testing tether dynamics in space - the STRING mission

Author

Altan, B. ; Forquera, P. ; Segal, Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

20-22 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

472

Lastpage

477

Abstract

Spacecraft are becoming smaller relative to the amount of scientific information we are acquiring with them. This miniaturization, however, presents even bigger challenges to the spacecraft developers. First, none of these programs have the resources to reinvent the wheel again for their projects. Second, the requirements in communication, operations and software development are not only contained in the transition from bigger satellites to smaller, but sometimes even complicated by this miniaturization.

Keywords

aerospace testing; artificial satellites; data handling; satellite communication; SSDL; STRING mission; Stanford University Space Systems Development Laboratory; Stanford-TUI Tether Release In Neutral Gravity; Tethers Unlimited Inc.; miniaturization; satellites; scientific information; software development; spacecraft; tether dynamics testing; Aerodynamics; Educational institutions; Electrodynamics; Laboratories; Propulsion; Satellites; Space missions; Space technology; Space vehicles; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advances in Space Technologies, 2003. RAST '03. International Conference on. Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Istanbul, Turkey

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8142-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAST.2003.1303962

Filename

1303962