Latest status of the four Chinese CubeSats in the QB50 project

Weijian Pang, Xiaozhou Yu, Jun Zhou, Xiang Zhang, Xin Song, Mingchuan Wei, Jian Guo

科研成果: 书/报告/会议事项章节会议稿件同行评审

摘要

In 2011, the QB50 project of European Commission's Framework 7 research program was granted. The project was initiated by Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI). The primary object of the project is the measurements of the key parameters and constituents in the lower thermosphere. Now there are 36 CubeSats from twenty-six countries and regions in the international project. Four Chinese universities in the mainland, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU, Asia coordinator), Harbin Institute of Technology(HIT), Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) join the QB50. Each of the universities built a 2U(10cm × 10cm × 20cm) CubeSat. They are Aoxiang-1(NPU), LilacSat-1(HIT), NUDTSat(NUDT) and NJUST-2(NUST). Among them, three CubeSats carry the Ion/Neutral Mass Spectrometer, which is used to resolve the major constituents in the lower thermosphere, i.e., O, O2, N2. NJUST-2 has a Flux- Probe Experiment science payload for the measurements of atomic and molecular oxygen densities. Besides, the lower thermosphere research, the four CubeSats will also carry some innovative experiments, which are high precision attitude control use compacted attitude control module, high reliable onboard computer test, high precision orbit determination by GPS/BDS receiver, amateur radio communication forwarding test and space photography. Chinese universities' four QB50 CubeSats are the earliest granted CubeSat project in China, hundreds of students and young scholars join the science research in six years. Now, all the CubeSats have been launched and deployed in 2017. This paper will give the detail introduction of the payloads, the design of the four CubeSats, and other interesting experiments.

源语言英语
主期刊名68th International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2017
主期刊副标题Unlocking Imagination, Fostering Innovation and Strengthening Security
出版商International Astronautical Federation, IAF
11757-11764
页数8
ISBN(印刷版)9781510855373
出版状态已出版 - 2017
活动68th International Astronautical Congress: Unlocking Imagination, Fostering Innovation and Strengthening Security, IAC 2017 - Adelaide, 澳大利亚
期限: 25 9月 201729 9月 2017

出版系列

姓名Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC
18
ISSN(印刷版)0074-1795

会议

会议68th International Astronautical Congress: Unlocking Imagination, Fostering Innovation and Strengthening Security, IAC 2017
国家/地区澳大利亚
Adelaide
时期25/09/1729/09/17

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