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Is your picosatellite ready for launch? Can it withstand rocket thrusts and the vacuum of space? This do-it-yourself guide helps you conduct a series of hands-on tests designed to check your satellites readiness. Learn precisely what the craft and its electronic components must endure if theyre to function properly in Low Earth Orbit.
The perfect follow-up to DIY Satellite Platforms (our primer for designing and building a picosatellite), this book also provides an overview of what space is like and how orbits work, enabling you to set up the launch and orbit support youll need.
- Go deep into the numbers that describe conditions your satellite will face
- Learn how to mitigate the risks of radiation in the ionosphere
- Pick up enough formal systems engineering to understand what the tests are all about
- Build a thermal vacuum chamber for mimicking environment of space
- Simulate the rocket launch by building and running a vibration shake test
- Use a homebuilt centrifuge to conduct high G-force tests
- Get guidelines on scheduling tests and choosing an appropriate lab or clean room
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Just how harsh is the space environment into which you thrust your DIY satellite? We look at what conditions your satellite must endure, how to test your satellite, and what launch, ground and orbit support you will need. In addition, we provide tips on making your overall plan and schedule, including the most important tests that will help your satellite survive and thrive in space.
provides you with a discussion of what testing is all about as well as offering some sample NASA CubeSat requirements and a smidgen of formal systems engineering.
In guides you through high G-force testing of your payload using a homebuilt centrifuge.
closes the book with a discussion on the usefulness of flight spares, guidelines on scheduling your tests, and help in choosing appropriate clean room or lab in which to test. In summary, the book tells you where your satellite is heading, what to test, and how and where to test it. We hope this book also serves you as a basic text on the Low Earth Orbit environment in general, so that you can design, build and test a spaceworthy picocraft.
By the end of this book, you will be ready to prove your picosatellite has the right stuff to deploy via a fiery rocket launch into the harsh vacuum of space. We also recommend the other books in this series: our primer on designing and building your craft in DIY Satellite Platforms , crafting your missions science and technical goals in DIY Instruments for Amateur Space , and commanding, operating and downloading data from your satellite in DIY Data Communications for Amateur Spacecraft .
But first, lets really test the limits of the picosatellite youve built.
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weve got to go out to Asteroid HS-5388 and turn it into Space Station E-M3. She has no atmosphere at all, and only about two per cent Earth-surface gravity. Weve got to play human fly on her for at least six months, no girls to date, no television, no recreation that you dont devise yourselves, and hard work every day. Youll get space sick, and so homesick you can taste it, and agoraphobia. If you arent careful youll get ray-burnt. Your stomach will act up, and youll wish to God youd never enrolled. But if you behave yourself, and listen to the advice of the old spacemen, youll come out of it strong and healthy, with a little credit stored up in the bank, and a lot of knowledge and experience that you wouldnt get in forty years on Earth.
Robert Heinlein"Misfit"
Whats it like up there? Every 90 minutes, your satellite orbits the Earth. Each orbit passes high over a different geographic coordinate. The atmosphere you encounter is negligible, a residue of trace oxygen and other atoms with no real pressure to sustain you, just enough pressure to cause drag and (in months or years) reduce your orbit and cause reentry.
The Sun bathes you in heat and ultraviolet (UV) and X-rays and all the other wavelengths of light. When in sunlight, your satellite heats up, perhaps uncontrollably. For half of each orbit, the Earth blocks the Sun and your satellite radiates out into that cold 3-degrees above absolute zero ambient temperature of space.
High energy particles (protons and electrons) stream from the Sun and interact with the Earths magnetic field, creating beautiful aurora and potentially frying your electronics (see ). Very rarely, you might encounter space dust or tiny bits of orbital debris.
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