TY - JOUR
T1 - Design, implementation, and operation of a small satellite mission to explore the space weather effects in leo
AU - Fajardo, Isai
AU - Lidtke, Aleksander A.
AU - Bendoukha, Sidi Ahmed
AU - Gonzalez-Llorente, Jesus
AU - Rodríguez, Rafael
AU - Morales, Rigoberto
AU - Faizullin, Dmytro
AU - Matsuoka, Misuzu
AU - Urakami, Naoya
AU - Kawauchi, Ryo
AU - Miyazaki, Masayuki
AU - Yamagata, Naofumi
AU - Hatanaka, Ken
AU - Abdullah, Farhan
AU - Rojas, Juan J.
AU - Keshk, Mohamed Elhady
AU - Cosmas, Kiruki
AU - Ulambayar, Tuguldur
AU - Saganti, Premkumar
AU - Holland, Doug
AU - Dachev, Tsvetan
AU - Tuttle, Sean
AU - Dudziak, Roger
AU - Okuyama, Kei Ichi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the authors.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - Ten-Koh is a 23.5 kg, low-cost satellite developed to conduct space environment effects research in low-Earth orbit (LEO). Ten-Koh was developed primarily by students of the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) and launched on 29 October 2018 on-board HII-A rocket F40, as a piggyback payload of JAXA's Greenhouse gas Observing Satellite (GOSAT-2). The satellite carries a double Langmuir probe, CMOS-based particle detectors and a Liulin spectrometer as main payloads. This paper reviews the design of the mission, specifies the exact hardware used, and outlines the implementation and operation phases of the project. This work is intended as a reference that other aspiring satellite developers may use to increase their chances of success. Such a reference is expected to be particularly useful to other university teams, which will likely face the same challenges as the Ten-Koh team at Kyutech. Various on-orbit failures of the satellite are also discussed here in order to help avoid them in future small spacecraft. Applicability of small satellites to conduct space-weather research is also illustrated on the Ten-Koh example, which carried out simultaneous measurements with JAXA's ARASE satellite.
AB - Ten-Koh is a 23.5 kg, low-cost satellite developed to conduct space environment effects research in low-Earth orbit (LEO). Ten-Koh was developed primarily by students of the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) and launched on 29 October 2018 on-board HII-A rocket F40, as a piggyback payload of JAXA's Greenhouse gas Observing Satellite (GOSAT-2). The satellite carries a double Langmuir probe, CMOS-based particle detectors and a Liulin spectrometer as main payloads. This paper reviews the design of the mission, specifies the exact hardware used, and outlines the implementation and operation phases of the project. This work is intended as a reference that other aspiring satellite developers may use to increase their chances of success. Such a reference is expected to be particularly useful to other university teams, which will likely face the same challenges as the Ten-Koh team at Kyutech. Various on-orbit failures of the satellite are also discussed here in order to help avoid them in future small spacecraft. Applicability of small satellites to conduct space-weather research is also illustrated on the Ten-Koh example, which carried out simultaneous measurements with JAXA's ARASE satellite.
KW - Langmuir probe
KW - Magnetometer
KW - Particle detectors
KW - Plasma
KW - Radiation
KW - Rapid spacecraft development
KW - Single events
KW - Small-satellite
KW - Space environment
KW - Ten-Koh
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079137306&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/aerospace6100108
DO - 10.3390/aerospace6100108
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85079137306
SN - 2226-4310
VL - 6
JO - Aerospace
JF - Aerospace
IS - 10
M1 - 108
ER -