Design, Analysis, Assembly, Integration and Testing of Mechanical Systems for Micro-Satellites and Micro-Satellite Separation Systems.

摘要

This document summarizes the development activities completed for the Exoadaptable Pyroless Deployer (XPOD) system, and the MiniMags, EV9 and NORSAT-1 missions. The focus is on the mechanical design, computer modelling, and assembly integration and testing of mechanical systems. The XPOD work was associated with a re-analysis and testing of the XPOD Triple engineering model such that a flight model could be produced. The MiniMags work involved creating a preliminary bus design, which was ultimately used to determine that the MiniMags payload could feasibly be flown in a microsatellite. The EV9 work included taking the EV9 bus design from a mature design stage to flight assembly. Finally, work for the NORSAT-1 mission, which is a microsatellite mission with several different payloads, took a proposal level bus mechanical design to a preliminary design such that future work could be continued in later stages of the mission.