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Design and Functional Validation of a Mechanism for Dual-Spinning CubeSatsThe mission of the Micro-sized Microwave Atmospheric Satellite (MicroMAS) is to collect useful atmospheric images using a miniature passive microwave radiometer payload hosted on a low-cost CubeSat platform. In order to collect this data, the microwave radiometer payload must rotate to scan the ground-track perpendicular to the satellite's direction of travel. A custom motor assembly was developed to facilitate the rotation of the payload while allowing the spacecraft bus to remained fixed in the local-vertical, local-horizontal (LVLH) frame for increased pointing accuracy. This paper describes the mechanism used to enable this dual-spinning operation for CubeSats, and the lessons learned during the design, fabrication, integration, and testing phases of the mechanism's development lifecycle.
Document ID
20150004085
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Peters, Eric (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Dave, Pratik (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Kingsbury, Ryan (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Marinan, Anne (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Wise, Evan (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Pong, Chris (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Prinkey, Meghan (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Cahoy, Kerri (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Miller, David W. (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Sklair, Devon (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Date Acquired
April 2, 2015
Publication Date
May 1, 2014
Publication Information
Publication: The 42nd Aerospace Mechanism Symposium
Subject Category
Mechanical Engineering
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: FA8721-05-C-0002
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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