Print Email Facebook Twitter A New Approach on the Physical Architecture of CubeSats & PocketQubes Title A New Approach on the Physical Architecture of CubeSats & PocketQubes Author Bouwmeester, J. (TU Delft Space Systems Egineering) Gill, E.K.A. (TU Delft Space Engineering) Speretta, S. (TU Delft Space Systems Egineering) Uludag, M.S. (TU Delft Clean Room) Department Space Engineering Date 2017 Abstract The dominant architectural approach in CubeSats and PocketQubes is the use of modular physical units, each hosting (part of the) components of classical (virtual) subsystems. Many of these small satellites, however, also hostsubsystems or experiments with slightly alternative approach, e.g. with cellularization of components or the integration of functions from different virtual subsystems into a single physical unit. These concepts also have beeninvestigated and proposed by some studies on a much more rigorous implementation. Cellularization of complete satellite segments, the implementation of artificial stem cells, a satellite which comprises only of outer panels and plug-and-play technology are examples of these advanced concepts. While they offer promising advantages when implemented smartly as part of a new architecture, their disadvantages become dominant when such a concept isimplemented in a too rigorous and dogmatic manner. A smartly chosen hybrid of several concepts is investigated. An advanced outer but flat panel mixes the cellularized concept and integrates many components which interact with theoutside world. Internally, modular systems are still used, but some classical core subsystems can be integrated towards a single core unit. A lean approach on redundancy and electrical interfaces saves volume (for more payload volumeor smaller satellites) and reduces overall systems complexity. The overall impact on reliability is expected to be positive when taking development and testing time into account, but this requires more in-depth study to be validated. Subject CubeSatPocketQubeArchitectureCellularizationIntegrationMiniaturization To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5fcf717d-5884-45b4-a78a-74846a9a3f80 Publisher British Interplanetary Society Source Proceedings of the 15th Reinventing Space Conference, 2017, Glasgow Event 15th Reinventing Space Conference, 2017-10-24 → 2017-10-26, Glasgow, United Kingdom Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2017 J. Bouwmeester, E.K.A. Gill, S. Speretta, M.S. Uludag Files PDF 2017_10_23_J._Bouwmeester ... lasgow.pdf 1016.38 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5fcf717d-5884-45b4-a78a-74846a9a3f80/datastream/OBJ/view