BEESAT: A Pico Satellite for the On Orbit Verification of Micro Wheels

Author

Kayal, Hakan ; Baumann, Frank ; Briess, Klaus ; Montenegro, Sergio

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin

fYear

2007

fDate

14-16 June 2007

Firstpage

497

Lastpage

502

Abstract

The Technical University of Berlin has the objective to develop such components, which are not available yet. The first device under development is the so called "micro wheel", which is designed to be used in pico satellites, allowing a precise 3-axis attitude stabilization. The verification of these wheels in space will be done by BEESAT, the first pico satellite of TU Berlin. The main objective of BeeSat is the on orbit verification of newly developed micro wheels for pico satellite applications. These wheels, with the size of a one Euro coin in diameter, supported by DLR (FKZ 50JR0552) and developed in cooperation with Astro-und Feinwerktechnik, will drastically improve the actuation capabilities of pico satellites.

Keywords

artificial satellites; attitude control; stability; BEESAT; actuation capability; microwheels; on orbit verification; pico satellite; precise 3-axis attitude stabilization; Cameras; Computer architecture; Earth; Payloads; Satellite broadcasting; Satellite ground stations; Software; Space technology; Testing; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advances in Space Technologies, 2007. RAST '07. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1057-6

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1057-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAST.2007.4284041

Filename

4284041