This paper presents the mission analysis, requirements, system design, system level test results, as well as mass andpower budgets of a 1-unit CubeSat ESTCube-1 built to perform the first in-orbit demonstration of electric solar wind sail (E-sail)technology. The E-sail is a propellantless propulsion system concept that uses thin charged electrostatic tethers for turning themomentum flux of a natural plasma stream, such as the solar wind, into spacecraft propulsion. ESTCube-1 will deploy and chargea 10 m long tether and measure changes in the satellite spin rate. These changes result from the Coulomb drag interaction with theionospheric plasma that is moving with respect to the satellite due to the orbital motion of the satellite. The following subsystemshavebeendevelopedtoperformandtosupporttheE-sailexperiment: atetherdeploymentsubsystembasedonapiezoelectricmotor;an attitude determination and control subsystem to provide the centrifugal force for tether deployment, which uses electromagneticcoils to spin up the satellite to one revolution per second with controlled spin axis alignment; an imaging subsystem to verify tetherdeployment, which is based on a 640ud ×ud 480 pixel resolution digital image sensor; an electron gun to keep the tether at a highpositive potential; a high voltage source to charge the tether; a command and data handling subsystem; and an electrical powersubsystem with high levels of redundancy and fault tolerance to mitigate the risk of mission failure.
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机译:本文提出了任务分析,要求,系统设计,系统级测试结果,以及1单位CubeSat Estcube-1的质量和功率预算,以执行电太阳能风帆的第一个轨道示范(E-Sail )技术。 E-Sail是一种推进的推进系统概念,它使用薄的带电静电,用于将天然等离子体流的柱子通量转向宇宙飞船推进。 Estcube-1将部署和Chargea长度长度系绳并测量卫星旋转速率的变化。这些改变由库仑阻力相互作用导致由于卫星的轨道运动而相对于卫星移动的神经气囊等离子体。以下SubsystemshaveEvelopedToperFormandToSupPortthee-Sailexperiment:AtetherdeploymentsubsystembaseDonapieZoelectricoror;提供了一种姿态确定和控制子系统,为系绳展开提供离心力,它使用电磁纤维将卫星旋转到每秒的一秒钟,控制旋转轴对准。一种验证TetherDeployPlence的成像子系统,其基于640 UD× UD 480像素分辨率数字图像传感器;电子枪以保持系绳在高倍数下;高压源充电系绳;命令和数据处理子系统;以及具有高水平冗余和容错性的电力功率,以减轻任务失败的风险。
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