TY - GEN
T1 - Cubesat attitude control based on hard disk drive components - Theory and practice
AU - Sahar, Liran
AU - Edlerman, Eviatar
AU - Agalarian, Hovhannes
AU - Balabanov, Vladimir
AU - Gurfil, Pini
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Univelt Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - To control the rotational state of nanosatellites, miniaturized reaction wheels have been widely used. Miniaturized reaction wheels are manufactured by several companies, and can be found in multiple CubeSat missions. These reaction wheels have space heritage and good performance, but they are extremely costly. A typical price of a reaction wheel ranges from 12,000 to 20,000 USD. This poses a major problem to most CubeSat developers. We developed a costeffective alternative to existing reaction wheels, which reduces the cost of a unit to about 300 USD. The idea is to use hard disk drive (HDD) components as reaction wheels for CubeSats. HDD-based reaction wheels are much more affordable and provide similar performance to commercial systems. Analysis and experiments have been performed in order to validate the compatibility of the HDD-based wheel to the space environment.
AB - To control the rotational state of nanosatellites, miniaturized reaction wheels have been widely used. Miniaturized reaction wheels are manufactured by several companies, and can be found in multiple CubeSat missions. These reaction wheels have space heritage and good performance, but they are extremely costly. A typical price of a reaction wheel ranges from 12,000 to 20,000 USD. This poses a major problem to most CubeSat developers. We developed a costeffective alternative to existing reaction wheels, which reduces the cost of a unit to about 300 USD. The idea is to use hard disk drive (HDD) components as reaction wheels for CubeSats. HDD-based reaction wheels are much more affordable and provide similar performance to commercial systems. Analysis and experiments have been performed in order to validate the compatibility of the HDD-based wheel to the space environment.
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M3 - منشور من مؤتمر
SN - 9780877036432
T3 - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
SP - 87
EP - 106
BT - Dynamics and Control of Space Systems, DyCoSS 2017
A2 - Razoumny, Yury N.
A2 - Contant, Jean-Michel
A2 - Guerman, Anna D.
A2 - Graziani, Filippo
T2 - 3rd International Academy of Astronautics Conference on Dynamics and Control of Space Systems, DyCoSS 2017
Y2 - 30 May 2017 through 1 June 2017
ER -