Novel 3U stand-alone CubeSat architecture for autonomous Near Earth Asteroid fly-by

Stefano Casini; Iosto Fodde; Bert Monna; Angelo Cervone; Eberhard Gill

doi:10.3390/aerospace8010009

Novel 3U stand-alone CubeSat architecture for autonomous Near Earth Asteroid fly-by

Stefano Casini^*, Iosto Fodde, Bert Monna, Angelo Cervone, Eberhard Gill

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Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering

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The purpose of this work is to present a novel CubeSat architecture, aimed to explore Near Earth Asteroids. The fast growth in small satellite commercial-off-the-shelf technologies, which characterized the last decade of space industry, is exploited to design a 3U CubeSat able to provide a basic scientific return sufficient to improve the target asteroid dataset. An overview of the current available technologies for each subsystem is presented, followed by a component selection driven by the mission constraints. First a typical asteroid fly-by mission is introduced together with the system and performance requirements. Then each characterizing subsystem is critically analyzed, and the proposed configuration is presented, showing the mission feasibility within only 3.9 kg of wet mass and 385 m/s of total ∆V.

Original language	English
Article number	9
Number of pages	28
Journal	Aerospace
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace8010009
Publication status	Published - 30 Dec 2020

Funding

Funding: This research was funded by the EU H2020 MSCA ITN Stardust-R, grant agreement 813644.

Keywords

commercial-off-the-shelf
fly-by
interplanetary CubeSat
Near Earth Asteroids

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Stardust-R (Stardust Reloaded) H2020 MCSA ITN 2018
Vasile, M. (Principal Investigator), Feng, J. (Co-investigator), Fossati, M. (Co-investigator), Maddock, C. (Co-investigator), Minisci, E. (Co-investigator) & Riccardi, A. (Co-investigator)
European Commission - Horizon Europe + H2020
1/01/19 → 31/12/22
Project: Research

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