System and Method for an Integrated Satellite Platform

Clagett, Charles E [Inventor]Santos Soto, Luis H [Inventor]Hesh, Scott V [Inventor]Starin, Scott R [Inventor]Sheikh, Salman I [Inventor]Hesse, Michael [Inventor]Paschalidis, Nikolaos [Inventor]Johnson, Michael A [Inventor]Ericsson, Aprille J [Inventor]

关键词: SMALL SCIENTIFIC SATELLITES;    COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES;    ELECTRIC BATTERIES;    MAGNETOMETERS;    PARTICLE TELESCOPES;    MASS SPECTROMETERS;    PATENTS;    INVENTIONS;   

RP-ID  :  US-Patent-9,938,023, US-Patent-Appl-SN-14/850,708

学科分类：航空航天科学

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来源: NASA Technical Reports Server

【 摘 要 】

A system, method, and computer-readable storage devices for a 6U CubeSat with a magnetometer boom. The example 6U CubeSat can include an on-board computing device connected to an electrical power system, wherein the electrical power system receives power from at least one of a battery and at least one solar panel, a first fluxgate sensor attached to an extendable boom, a release mechanism for extending the extendable boom, at least one second fluxgate sensor fixed within the satellite, an ion neutral mass spectrometer, and a relativistic electron/proton telescope. The on-board computing device can receive data from the first fluxgate sensor, the at least one second fluxgate sensor, the ion neutral mass spectrometer, and the relativistic electron/proton telescope via the bus, and can then process the data via an algorithm to deduce a geophysical signal.