Aerospace (Sep 2019)
Design, Implementation, and Operation of a Small Satellite Mission to Explore the Space Weather Effects in Leo
- Isai Fajardo,
- Aleksander A. Lidtke,
- Sidi Ahmed Bendoukha,
- Jesus Gonzalez-Llorente,
- Rafael Rodríguez,
- Rigoberto Morales,
- Dmytro Faizullin,
- Misuzu Matsuoka,
- Naoya Urakami,
- Ryo Kawauchi,
- Masayuki Miyazaki,
- Naofumi Yamagata,
- Ken Hatanaka,
- Farhan Abdullah,
- Juan J. Rojas,
- Mohamed Elhady Keshk,
- Kiruki Cosmas,
- Tuguldur Ulambayar,
- Premkumar Saganti,
- Doug Holland,
- Tsvetan Dachev,
- Sean Tuttle,
- Roger Dudziak,
- Kei-ichi Okuyama
Affiliations
- Isai Fajardo
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Aleksander A. Lidtke
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Sidi Ahmed Bendoukha
- Satellite Development Center CDS, POS 50 ILOT T 12 BirEl Djir, Algerian Space Agency, Oran 31130, Algeria
- Jesus Gonzalez-Llorente
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Rafael Rodríguez
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Rigoberto Morales
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Dmytro Faizullin
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Misuzu Matsuoka
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Naoya Urakami
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Ryo Kawauchi
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Masayuki Miyazaki
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Naofumi Yamagata
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Ken Hatanaka
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Farhan Abdullah
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Juan J. Rojas
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Mohamed Elhady Keshk
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Kiruki Cosmas
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Tuguldur Ulambayar
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- Premkumar Saganti
- Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX 77446, USA
- Doug Holland
- Holland-Space LLC, Houston, TX 77059, USA
- Tsvetan Dachev
- Space Research and Technology Institute-Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria
- Sean Tuttle
- Sigma Space Systems, Canberra 2905, Australia
- Roger Dudziak
- University of New South Wales, Canberra campus, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Canberra 2600, Australia
- Kei-ichi Okuyama
- Department of Applied Science for Integrated Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace6100108
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 6,
no. 10
p. 108
Abstract
Ten-Koh is a 23.5 kg, low-cost satellite developed to conduct space environment effects research in low-Earth orbit (LEO). Ten-Koh was developed primarily by students of the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) and launched on 29 October 2018 on-board HII-A rocket F40, as a piggyback payload of JAXA’s Greenhouse gas Observing Satellite (GOSAT-2). The satellite carries a double Langmuir probe, CMOS-based particle detectors and a Liulin spectrometer as main payloads. This paper reviews the design of the mission, specifies the exact hardware used, and outlines the implementation and operation phases of the project. This work is intended as a reference that other aspiring satellite developers may use to increase their chances of success. Such a reference is expected to be particularly useful to other university teams, which will likely face the same challenges as the Ten-Koh team at Kyutech. Various on-orbit failures of the satellite are also discussed here in order to help avoid them in future small spacecraft. Applicability of small satellites to conduct space-weather research is also illustrated on the Ten-Koh example, which carried out simultaneous measurements with JAXA’s ARASE satellite.
Keywords
- space environment
- plasma
- radiation
- single events
- particle detectors
- langmuir probe
- magnetometer
- rapid spacecraft development
- small-satellite
- ten-koh
