Being Canada’s only contribution to an International Satellite

Constellation

Kirtan Dhunnoo

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Summer 2019

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Canadian contributions to INSPIRE

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INSPIRESat-1
~12 U

Payloads
- Compact Ionosphere Probe (CIP)
- Dual Aperture X-Ray Solar
Spectrometer (DAXSS)

CU Boulder/LASP spacecraft

launches Nov. 2019

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INSPIRESat-1

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INSPIRESat-4
~27 U

Payloads
- ThrustMe NPT30 Xenon thruster
- Atmospheric Limb Interferometer for
Temperature Exploration (AtmoLITE)
- CIP

launches 2020 2021

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INSPIRESat-4

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INSPIRESat-3
~27 U

Payloads
- Atmospheric Limb Interferometer for
Temperature Exploration (AtmoLITE)
- Occulation Wave Limb Sounder (OWLS)
- Digital Fluxgate Magnetometer (DFGM)

launches 2021

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INSPIRESat-3 Partner Contributions

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Mission Objectives

0.SCI.1- Measure gravity waves with vertical wavelengths of at least 5 km with density
amplitudes of at least 2% from 80-200 km between ~60-90 deg South near both solstices.

0.SCI.2- Measure thermospheric temperature from 150-300 km coincident in space and

time to 0.REQ.SCI.1

0.SCI.3- Measure variations in Earth's magnetic field at 500 km across -90 to 90 deg latitude
range (TBC)

0.SCI.4- Obtain atmospheric temperature profiles through limb-sounding of 762 nm O2 A-

band emissions

0.SCI.5- Characterize atomic oxygen a-band emission in the upper atmosphere through
nighttime temperature measurements

General Overview
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 INSPIRESat-3 Launch in 2021

Orbit SSO – Noon-Midnight (550-600 km)

Design life time 1 year for LEO
Dimensions
Launch: 30 x 30 x 30 cm3
(L x W x H)
Mass 27 kg
8 fine sun-sensors, 2 IMUs, 1 GPS receiver, 3
ADCS
magnetorquers, 3 reaction wheels, 1 star tracker
Solar panels 3 deployable solar panels, total 75W BOL
Battery 100 Wh @ 7.4 V nominal
9600 bps UHF QPSK downlink, 1 Mbps S-band QPSK
TT&C
data downlink
Compact SOLSTICE Instrument
Payloads Extreme UV OP
Digital Flux Gate Magnetometer
Launch adapter IBL-230 for PSLV

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OWLS Payload
- Compact SOLSTICE Spectrograph (CSOL)
- Extreme Ultraviolet imager (EUV-OP)

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DFGM

300 mm
458 mm

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Spacecraft Data Generation

Data Generating Data Generation Data Generation

Duty Cycle Data Rate Units
Systems: per Orbit (MB) per Day (MB)
CSOL + EUV-OP: 1.2% N/A 1.2 18.4
DFGM: 80.00% 1,256 bytes/sec 5.4 81.1
AtmoLITE: 80.00% 16.5 247.2
Housekeeping Data
N/A N/A N/A 0.1 1.9
(Derived from IS1):
Total Data 23.2 348.5

Data Margin
(total data generated - total link time*S-band
transmitter data rate) = 5.5 MB Communications
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Access Times

Average Average Average Time Station Constraints

Access Access Per Pass (min) Equipment Elevation > 5°
Times per Duration Per Access times > 3 minutes
Day Day (min)

LASP 3.7 26.9 7.3 UHF/S-Band

NTU
2.8 20.3 7.3 S-Band
Singapore

UA
4.8 35.0 7.2 UHF
Edmonton, CA
NCU
4.2 36.7 8.9 UHF
Taiwan
IIST
3.8 33.4 8.9 UHF
India
Communications
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INSPIRESat-3 Ground Station Network

Groundstations Avaliable
Location
S-band UHF

NTU (Singapore) Confirmed Confirmed

LASP (Boulder) Confirmed Confirmed

UofA (Edmonton, CA) N/A Tentative

IIST (India) Tentative Tentative

Tentative
NCU (Taiwan) Tentative

Communications
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 S-band Patch Antenna
INSPIRESat-3 Structure Overview
Battery Pack
IBL 230 Deployment RIng
Assembly

BCT XACT 50

UHF Antenna
OWLS Payload

CSOL EUV-OP

GPS
+Y
+Z
DFGM

+X AtmoLITE

Avionics Card Stack

Hinge Connection

Structures and Thermal

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INSPIRESat-3 Structure Overview
IBL 230 Deployment RIng Battery Pack
Assembly

BCT XACT 50 S-band Patch Antenna

GPS

OWLS Payload
EUV-OP
OWLS Payload
CSOL

AtmoLITE AtmoLITE Bracket

+Z

Hinge
+Y
Avionics Card Stack

UHF Antenna DFGM +X

Structures and Thermal
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Deployable Solar Panel Hinges

● based on MinXSS
● Mass: 129.07 g
● Stowed: 75 x 36 mm
● (Clearance: 4.4685 mm)
● Deployed Ext: 8.5 mm
● Spring-loaded
● UV-degradable burn wire
● Passive stopping mechanism
● 1st Mode Freq > 3000 Hz

Structures and Thermal

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Preliminary FEA Quasi-Static

20 g acceleration applied in +Z
direction

Max. Stress:
22.2 MPa

Min. FOS:
12.4 wrt Al 6061-T6 yield
strength

so there the f_cker cant die Deformation Scale: 383.203 Structures and Thermal
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Future Steps - What the UofA will do going forward….

DFGM Communications Structure

Interface, magnetic UHF Antenna hardware Next Design Iteration

cleanliness testing development and testing • Finalize
payload/component
Perform deployment tests Data packet transmission, placement within
(microgravity parabolic receiving on a flat sat satellite
flights)
Telemetry, Science packet Detailed AIT plan
Modify DFGM PCB to operate definition
two sensors at once Physical Fit Testing and
Finalization of UHF, S-band Assembly
groundstation locations

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 Thank you!
Kirtan Dhunnoo
[email protected]

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