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STUDENTS: LAUNCHING CUBESATS!
Introduction to the Project
PROJECT HORUS
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Remote Sensing for Agriculture
Effect of drought on wheat crops in Western Australia
Importance of Satellites to Australia
Weather Forecasting Communications
Jabiru-2 communications Satellite – late 2014
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CubeSats compared to Satellites
Satellites
Can be big - size of bus
Can be expensiveMulit-millions to billions of dollars for interplanetary missions
Usually has its own rocket for launching
CubeSats
Small – cube 10cm on one side and usually weighs about 1kg
Made of off the shelf electronics
A full space launch of a CubeSat is about $100,000, although space agencies do offer free launches
Piggy-backs on a launch vehicle
1U CubeSat in space (10cm on side) Launch mass 1kgNASA Aqua Satellite4.81m x 16.70m x 8.04m, Launch mass 2,934kg
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High altitude balloon launches can reach heights of over 30km – a third of the way to space and very much cheaper than a full space launch!
Sometimes balloon launches can be used for unusual objects
Yoyo in space Chair in Space!
High Altitude Balloons as Launch Vehicles
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And you can do this as well!
In this project you will fly your own CubeSat on a high altitude balloon and take your own spectacular pictures!
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Technical or engineering aspects such as launch parameters and correct operation of the payload
Scientific aspects – what useful experiments/observations can be done using the equipment available
CubeSat Project
Your brief is to design, develop and fly your CubeSat, using a high-altitude balloon as your launch vehicle and undertake experiments that you will design and analyse
You need to take into account:
Sometimes there is conflict between technical and scientific aspects
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GoPro camera can be aligned in a number of ways but because of stacking of CubeSats only bottom CubeStat can have camera pointing down – which direction other cameras and why?
Memory card – how much data can be stored?
Matching GPS data with images
Some Design Issues
Plus others that you will find out about as you go through the design process!