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Interplanetary Small
Spacecraft
Les Johnson
NASA MSFC
FISO Telecon 3-25-15
Payload
Mission Concept
BioSentinel
ARC/JSC
Lunar Flashlight
JPL/MSFC
NASA Centers
Speakers Bureau
ECHO II 1964
SOLAR THRUST AFFECT ON SPACECRAFT ORBIT
135-foot rigidized inflatable balloon satellite
laminated Mylar plastic and aluminum
placed in near-polar Orbit
passive communications experiment by NASA on January 25, 1964
Two solar sail technologies were designed, fabricated, and tested under
thermal vacuum conditions in 2005:
10 m system ground demonstrators (developed and tested in 2004/2005)
20 m system ground demonstrators (designed, fabricated, and tested)
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100 kg spacecraft
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Rocket Failed
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Mission Description:
10 m2 sail
Made from tested ground
demonstrator hardware
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Rocket Failed
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Bus interfaces
Actuation
Electronics
(MSFC/UAH)
NanoSail-D
PPOD Deployer
(Cal-Poly)
Stowed Configuration
PreSat (ARC)
NanoSail-D
(MSFC)
HSV-1
NSD-002
NSD-001
3U Cubesat: 10 cm X 10 cm X 34 cm
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Design Features:
High density packagability
Controlled linear
deployment
Structural scalability
Propellantless operation
Meets current needs
Design Features:
High density packagability
Controlled linear
deployment
Structural scalability
Propellantless operation
Meets current needs
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3U Cubesat design
InflateSail is an inflatable,
rigidizable sail for flight in
Low Earth Orbit:
3U CubeSat with deployed sail
area of 10 m2
Sail supported by bistable
booms
Inflation is driven by Cool Gas
Generators (CGG): low system
mass, long lifespan
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Payload
Mechanical
& Structure
Propulsion
Avionics
Electrical
Power
System
Telecom
Attitude
Control
System
RWA
(Blue Canyon)
LGA
(JPL)
Star Tracker
(Blue Canyon)
NEA Imager
(Malin)
RCS
(VACCO)
School Bus
Human
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4 quadrant sail
85 m2 reflective area
2.5 micron CP1 substrate
Z folded and spooled for storage
2 separate spools with 2 sail quadrants folded onto each
4 7-meter stainless steel TRAC booms coiled on a mechanical
deployer
2 separate deployers and each deployer releases 2TRAC
booms
Motorized boom deployment
Spool Assembly
Stowed Sail
Membrane
Stowed
Booms
Motor
Deployer
Mechanism
Motor Controller Card
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ACS System
Spooled Sails
130.5mm 140mm
Required Allocated
3U
Boom Deployers
Avionics/Science
1U
2U
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Fabricated 2 flight size 10m sails from existing 20m CP1 sail.
Z-folded and spooled 2 sail quadrants onto the hub.
Calculated new packing efficiency to be 27.5 %
Higher percentage
results in tighter
packaging and thus
more volume margin
for design space.
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Light Source
Integrating Sphere
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Lunar Flashlight
SKG Addressed: Understand the
quantity and distribution of water and
other volatiles in lunar cold traps
Look for surface ice deposits and
identify favorable locations for in-situ
utilization
Recent robotic mission data (Mini RF,
LCROSS) strongly suggest the
presence of ice deposits in
permanently shadowed craters.
Sunlight is reflected
off the sail down to
the lunar surface in a
3 deg beam. Light
reflected off the lunar
surface enters the
spectrometer to
distinguish water ices
from regolith.
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What Next?
Out of the ecliptic and
over-the-Earths pole
science
Comet rendezvous
Multiple NEA reconnaissance
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