Towards a “concurrent design facility (CDF)” for nanosatellites: a back-of-the-envelope calculation of the overall energy budget of OUFTI-1

摘要

We give a very compact account of the overall energy budget of the OUFTI-1 nanosatellite, thereby providing a useful guide for future designs, as well as an explanation of why a nanosatellite can, energetically, survive and do useful tasks in space.