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UN / Russian Federation / European Space Agency / Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Space Research
Workshop on the Use of Micro-Satellite Technologies
for Environmental Monitoring and Impact to Human Health
3-7 September 2007, Kaluga region, Tarusa, RUSSIA
Nanosatellites as the Base of Monitoring System for
the Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Currents.
A.N.Zaitsev*, IZMIRAN, Troitsk, Moscow region, 142190, RUSSIA
* IKI, Profsouznaya str.84/32, Moscow, 117996, RUSSIA
Facts about Nanosats - CubeSats
• CubeSat invented by Prof. R.Twiggs
at 1999
• MicroSat-CubeSat development
based on the Amateur Radio
OSCAR satellites for 30 years
• AX 25 protocol and VHF Amateurs
Radio bands used as the standard
tools for CubeSats
• 80 universities in 28 countries
conduct the projects to design and
to launch of the nanosatellites
Recent Conference about
Microsat and CubeSat
* 21-st Small Satellite Conference
held in Utah at August 2007. Top
space experts, astronauts, Air Force
officials and even Apple co-founder
Steve Wozniak take part in it
* Special Workshop devoted to
CubeSat was held at August 12, 2007
before Small Satellite Conference
CubeSat - PC in Space
scale size 10 cm, weight 1 kg
HIT-Sat, JAPAN
University of Tokyo’s XI-IV Cubesat
Advantages – small budget projects, modern high-tech microtechnologies,
the group of student will fulfill the task for one academic year,
COTS and the kit exist to make the CubeSat
PicoSats (CubeSat) launched by SSETI-Express
at September 27, 2005
The
Norwegian Student Satellite Project - NCUBE, call
LA1CUB, 437.305 Mhz
University
of Würzburg, Germany and Aalborg University,
Denmark, 437.450 Mhz
University
beacon
of Tokyo, call JQ1YCW, 437.490 telemetry, 436.847
CubeSat bus and
development board
How to launch the CubeSat ?
Special P-POD (Poly Picosatellite Orbital
Deployer) system designed and used now for
CubeSats or any sat with multiple factor of 3
The few CubeSats were deployed from
SSETI satellite with P-POD system
Separate launch is possible on Dnepr launcher
SSETI satellite general view
Control station
for CubeSat operation
Standard configuration include :
-VHF transciever ICOM-910
-Yeasu G-5500 X-Z rotator
-TNC-3 radio link controller
-PC and Internet link
Launched at July 2005 and operate successfully
Best Amateur Radio Microsat OSCAR-51:
Nanosat scale size 30 cm, weight 10 kg
Analog
Uplink:
145.920 MHz FM (PL - 67Hz)
1268.700 MHz FM (PL - 67Hz)
Analog
Downlink:
435.300 MHz FM , 2401.200 MHz FM
PSK-31
Uplink
28.140
MHz USB
Digital
Uplink:
145.860 MHz 9600 bps, AX.25
1268.700 MHz 9600 bps AX.25
Digital
Downlink:
435.150 MHz 9600 bps, AX.25
2401.200 MHz 38,400 bps, AX.25
All details about OSCAR satellites
On WWW.AMSAT.ORG
Nanosat as monitoring tool for earthquakes –
QuakeSat (Quakefinder)
QuakeSat launched at
June 30, 2003 and operate
till now
Hundreds of small and
medium scale
earthquakes detected and
analyzed
Main instrument – ULF
magnetometer on satellite
and on the ground level
Scientific goal – to find a
precursors of
earthquakes
Few tenths of schools
and point of observations
in California take part in
the research and
The list of CubeSats which operate in space as at summer 2007
Cute-1, launch at June 30, 2003
QuakeSat, launch at June 30, 2003
CubeSat Xi-IV, launch at June 30, 2003
CubeSat Xi-V, launch at October 27, 2005
UWE-1, launch at October 27, 2005
NCube-2, launch at October 27, 2005
Cute 1.7 + APD, launch at February 21, 2006
HIT-SAT, launch at September 22, 2006
The launch by DNEPR at April 17, 2007
CP3, CP4 – standard CubeSats
MAST – experiment with 3 CubeSats
CAPE1 - University of Lousiana
CSTB1 – technological nanosat of BOEING
AeroCube – technological nanosat of Aerospace
Libertad-1 – University of C.Arboleda, Columbia
Educational “Northern Lights” nanosat –
proposal from Troitsk Youth Center “Space Physics and
Informatics”, see http://rk3dxb.narod.ru
The tasks for educational program :
• To build up of electrical prototype of “Northern Lights” nanosat
• To conduct the test for telemetry channel on radio amateurs band
with usage of RK3DXB station in Troitsk as the control site
• To write the reference book in Russian about picosats
• To collect and to test of software pack to operate with picosat
• To connect with the prototypes of sensors which might be used in
real construction of nanosat
• To present our results on conferences devoted to microsats
• To find support and funding to fulfill the work with the real flight
nanosat unit after 2008
Information resources on Russian
which useful for microsat educational programs
Scientific tasks for CubeSat developments
and CubeSat based science missions
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GPS occulting as observed on the satellites
Magnetometers as the navigation and observational tools
CCD cameras in different spectral bands
QuakeSat-2 project under development in Stanford University
Technology tests for space materials
Real-Time observations of ionospheric currents from LEO orbits
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At 2007 NSF announce the program from 2008 to use of CubeSat technology
for space weather and atmospheric research and education through
development, building, launch, operation, and data analysis of small scientific
satellite missions based on CubeSat – exp.funding from 5 milllions $ per year
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CubeSat science missions have not limitations in view of tremendous progress
in electronics and nanotechnology
Real-Time observations of ionospheric current on the base of ground magnetometers,
see http://krm.ngdc.noaa.gov/rtkrm.html
Real-Time observations of ionosphe parameters conducted by radars (SuperDarn
project), see http://superdarn.jhuapl.edu/rt/map/index.html
Polar substorm disturbances
Sd current system of substorm
on the ionosphere level
Auroral oval display the instantaneous
global position of aurora aurora
The polar disturbances are the main features in the space weather effects
Our proposal - Monitoring System for the IonosphereMagnetosphere Currents
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The background - The pilot experiments Satellite Warning of Auroral Zone
Increases (SWAZI) as Estimated Ionospheric Current Patterns was tested
on FREJA satellite at 1986
Educational project with “Northern Lights” nanosat initiated by small venture
INTEKH in the Troitsk Youth Center “Space Physics and Informatics” which
is under study at 2007-2008
After pilot study of “Northern Lights” nanosat at 2008 we can offer the real
proposal for the Monitoring System of the Ionosphere-Magnetosphere
Currents
Nanosats are under test by RNIIKP and discussed by Moscow University,
Bauman Tech University and others which include magnetometers in their
projects
The goals of space weather are widely discussed in Russian Academic
Institutes ( IKI, IZMIRAN, PGI etc.) and they able to utilize of space
magnetometer data for space weather service
Prof. R.Twiggs in SSDL / Stanford University
My call
RW3DZ,
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