SMARTSat [Texas A&M University]
SMARTSat (Shape Memory Alloy Research Technology Satellite) was a CubeSat (1U) mission designed at Texas A&M.
In the fall of 2002, a small group of students at the newly-founded Space Engineering Institute (SEI) began work on the SMARTSat CubeSat, a small student-built satellite.
The mission of SMARTSat was to demonstrate the use of Shape Memory Alloys to deploy solar panels, to demonstrate an attitude determination algorithm using input from a magnetometer and sun sensors and to take and transmit pictures of Earth. Passive attitude controll would hav been by a 2 m deployable garvity gradient boom.
Apparently the mission was cancelled in 2007.
Nation: | USA |
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Type / Application: | Technology |
Operator: | Texas A&M University |
Contractors: | Texas A&M University |
Equipment: | |
Configuration: | CubeSat (1U) |
Propulsion: | None |
Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
Lifetime: | |
Mass: | 1 kg |
Orbit: |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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SMARTSat | - | cancelled | with ? |