Title: AMSAT OSCARE Echo
1AMSAT OSCAR-E (Echo)
AMSATs New Eagle Satellite Presented by
Richard M. Hambly, W2GPS AMSAT President
Saturday, May 24, 2003, 1800 UTC Southern
African Amateur Radio Satellite Association (SA
Amsat) P O Box 90438 Garsfontein 0042 South
Africa http//www.amsatsa.org.za/
2AMSAT Presentation
- ? AMSAT AO-E Project, now AO-51
- (May 2003)
- ? AMSAT
- ? Planning, Strategic and Tactical
- ? Whats Next? Eagle!
When in doubt see AMSATs new Web site
at www.amsat.org
3AMSATs New Web Sitewww.amsat.org
Main Web Page
The AMSAT Store is now open!
4Strategic Planning
- February 2004 AMSAT began a new round of
strategic planning. - To be done by the board members, assisted by a
few officers and advisors and led by an outside
facilitator. - Discovery process, the State Of The World.
- Decision stage, AMSAT in 45 Seconds.
- Ten Stakeholder Questions Who are you? What do
you do? Who will care? Why will they care? How
many will care? How do you get to those who do?
How will you make money? How are you unique and
how will you defend your space? Do you have the
team to pull it off? How much money do you need
and where does it take you? - Results were the Mission and Vision statements
- Biweekly teleconferences to work on the action
items.
5Tactical Planning
- It is the responsibility of AMSATs officers to
implement the Boards strategic planning
directives. - In October 2004 we changed AMSATs executive
organization - Fewer Officers and a new emphasis on teamwork and
cooperation, not hierarchical reporting
responsibilities. - President (Richard Hambly W2GPS)
- Executive VP (Lee McLamb KU4OS)
- VP Operations (Mike Kingery KE4AZN)
- VP Engineering (Stan Wood WA4NFY)
- Treasurer (Gunther Meisse W8GSM)
- Corporate Secretary (Steve Diggs W4EPI)
- Manager (Martha Saragovitz)
- VP Marketing and User Services (Barry Baines
WD4ASW) - VP Human Spaceflight (Frank Bauer, KA3HDO).
6Tactical Planning
- Executive VP
- Educational, industrial, governmental and
international relations. - VP Marketing and User Services
- Electronic communications, contests and awards,
AMSAT News Service, sales, the AMSAT Journal,
Field Operations and the Web site. - VP Human Spaceflight
- This team that crosses organizational boundaries
between AMSAT, ARRL and NASA. - Now on the executive team, is an indication of
the importance AMSAT places in our involvement in
the human spaceflight program. - AMSAT plans to be there when humans again travel
beyond the low orbit of the International Space
Station, perhaps to the Moon or Mars. - Other teams are organized as in the past.
7AMSATs Strategic Plan Mission Statement
AMSAT is a non-profit volunteer organization
which designs, builds and operates experimental
satellites and promotes space education. We
work in partnership with government, industry,
educational institutions and fellow amateur
radio societies. We encourage technical and
scientific innovation, and promote the training
and development of skilled satellite and ground
system designers and operators.
8AMSATs Strategic Plan Vision Statement
Our Vision is to deploy high earth orbit
satellite systems that offer daily coverage by
2009 and continuous coverage by 2012. AMSAT will
continue active participation in human space
missions and support a stream of LEO satellites
developed in cooperation with the educational
community and other amateur satellite groups
Tom Clark W3IWI, Gerald Youngblood AC5OG and
Bruce Paige KK5DO working on AMSATs Strategic
Plan.
9AMSATs Eagle Satellite Project
Eagle!
- 6 cu ft, 50Kg
- High Elliptical Orbit
- About 80 Watt power budget
10Eagle AMSATs Next Project
- AMSATs vision is to deploy high earth orbit
satellite systems that offer daily coverage by
2009 and continuous coverage by 2012. - HEO satellites are key to AMSAT fulfilling
strategic needs - Eagle Design Team met in Orlando FL the weekend
of 17 JUL 04 - Mechanical/Thermal design work has been done by
Dick Jansson, WD4FAB over the past several years - Key team assignments were made at the design
meeting
11Eagles History
- So You Want to Build a Satellite by Dick
Jansson WD4FAB presented at AMSATs 18th Space
Symposium in Portland Maine on Oct 28, 2000. - Project Committee met July 14, 2001 in Denver,
Colorado. - Eagle Design Team met Sep 28, 2002 in Orlando FL.
- Eagle Design Team met the weekend of Jul 17, 2004
in Orlando FL. - Mechanical/Thermal design work has been done by
Dick Jansson, WD4FAB over the past several years - A Requirements Specification outline was
developed and key design parameters were chosen. - Team leadership assignments were made.
12Eagles Specifications1.0 Payloads
- 1.1 Transmitters
- V band 20KHz bandwidth using SDR techniques
- Two S Band
- 100KHz bandwidth
- Either transmitter can be driven by SDR or analog
inputs - C band wideband digital which includes telemetry
- All bands should be capable of being operated
simultaneously
HEO Orbit
- 1.2 Receivers
- U band 100KHz bandwidth
- L band 100KHz bandwidth
- C band wideband digital
13Eagles Specifications1.0 Payloads
- 1.6 Telemetry beacons active on all transmitters
- The IHU will provide digital data and clock to
the transmitter. The transmitter itself is
responsible for data delivery. - 1.7 Command uplinks on the U and L receivers
- Demodulation to baseband audio is in the receiver
- 1.3 GPS (NASA)
- 1.4 CEDEX (Surrey Satellite Technology)
- 1.5 Cameras
- Narrow FOV on Z axis
- Wide FOV on Z axis
- Cameras should survive all beta angles.
14Eagles Specifications2.0 Structure and Physical
Properties
- 2.1 Mass
- 100Kg or less
- 2.2 Size
- 600mm by 600mm by 450 mm with fixed and
deployable solar panels. - 2.3 Stabilization
- Spin stabilized ( Z Nadir pointing at apogee)
1-15RPM - 2.4 Orbit
- High apogee elliptical
- 2.5 Attitude Control
- Magnetorquers and nutation dampers
- Sensors
- The Sun sensors will measure the sun at all
angles and attitudes - The Earth sensor will measure the attitude of the
spacecraft with respect to the Earth while its
distance is within two radii of the Earths
surface. - The satellite will stabilize to the desired
attitude in 72 hours.
15Eagles Specifications2.0 Structure and Physical
Properties
- 2.6 Propulsion
- The simplest system that will accomplish a
desirable orbit and is acceptable to the launch
agency. Initial estimate is 60 meters per second
delta velocity. - The propulsion system should be modular
16Eagles Specifications2.0 Structure and Physical
Properties
- 2.7 Structure
- Aluminum honeycomb panels forming core structure
supporting internal modules and integrated with
separation interface. - 2.8 Magnetic Environment
- Magnetically clean as practically achievable
17Eagles SpecificationsThermal Control, Power
Generation and Housekeeping
- Fault tolerant BCR and battery system that fails
in an operational mode. - Buss voltage is 10 to 14 volts nominal.
- 5.0 Housekeeping
- IHU-3
- CAN-Do! Information buss
- 3.0 Thermal Control
- Battery temperature should not exceed a -15 to
15C range. - Electronics module environment should be from -25
to 40C - 4.0 Power Generation
- Two fixed and four deployable solar panels with
omni coverage.
18Eagles SpecificationsHousekeeping and Antennas
Z Surface
S
C
- 6.0 Antennas
- High Gain Z
- U (435MHz), L (1.2GHz), S (2.4GHz) and C
(5.6GHz) - Omni Antennas, -Z (functional in all attitudes)
- V (145MHz), U, L and S
- Omni Antennas Z
- U, L and S
L over U
S
19Eagle Team Leadership Assignments
Project Manager Jim Sanford WB4GCS Chief
Technical Officer Rick Hambly W2GPS
(acting) Secretary Stephen Diggs W4EPI Structure
and Thermal Dick Jansson WD4FAB Launch Lee
McLamb KU4OS (lead), Tom Clark W3IWI (Russian
launches) Guidance and Control Ken Ernandes
N2WWD Sensors Alan Bloom N1AL Power Generation
and Distribution Lou McFadin W5DID Propulsion
Stan Wood WA4NFY (lead), Daniel Schultz N8FGV,
Ken Ernandes N2WWD Antennas Stan Wood WA4NFY
20Eagle Team Leadership Assignments
Housekeeping Bdale Garbee KB0G (data interface),
Chuck Green N0ADI, Lyle Johnson KK7P (IHU-3)
Antennas Stan Wood WA4NFY Payloads Bob McGwier
N4HY, Daniel Schultz N8FGV, Tom Clark W3IWI GPS
Lou McFadin W5DID CEDEX Robin Haighton
VE3FRH Cameras Gunther Meisse W8GSM Command and
Control/Telemetry Stephen Diggs W4EPI, Stacy
Mills W4SM Radiation Environment Steve Bible
N7HPR End of Life Issues Larry Kayser VA3LK
(SK 10/5/04)
21Eagle Whats Next?
- What are the Next Steps?
- Design Team to review and solicit comments on the
specifications - BOD reviews design and cost estimates
- Fundraising is a critical component
- Critical subsystems must begin design work now.
- Find a suitable launch (Hopefully sooner than
2009)
22AMSAT Needs Your Help!
- Eagle from the Users perspective
- Review the specification (see the article in the
2004 Proceedings). - Volunteers are needed for key leadership and
design positions. - AMSAT needs your financial support
- Our ability to proceed with Eagle is directly
dependent upon how quickly funds are donated for
the project - Questions?