CubeSat ADCS Testing Facility
Glavkosmos
A ground-based test bench for functional testing of the orientation and stabilization (ADCS) system of 3U CubeSats, including an air bearing table, sun and magnetic field simulators, and an automated measurement workstation.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Mass
- 250 kg
- Largest dimension
- 5,000 mm
- Lead time
- 6 months
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Purpose
- Designed for functional testing of CubeSat 3U orientation and stabilization system
- Year of release
- 2014
- Lead time
- 6 months
- Flight qualification of the product
- No
- Possibility to adapt the product to customer requirements
- No
- Dimensions of test bench, mm, not less than
- 5000 × 3000 × 2500
- Mass, kg, not less than
- 250
- Power voltage
- 220 V
- Computer processor frequency
- 3 GHz
- Ram capacity, gb, not less than
- 4
- Video card, gb, not less
- 1
- Hard disk, gb, not less
- 500
- Screen, difinition, not worse
- 1920 × 1080
- Balancing system
- manual
- Contents
- air bearing 15 kg - 1 pc.; platform for installation of the satellite CubeSat 3U - 1 pc.; sun simulator (halogen) - 1 pc.; magnetic field simulator - 1 pc.; automatized working place - 1 pc.; autonomous measurements system - 1 pc.
About
The CubeSat ADCS Testing Facility is designed for functional testing of the orientation and stabilization system (ADCS) of 3U CubeSats. Released in 2014, the facility is not flight-qualified hardware itself and cannot be adapted to customer requirements; estimated production/delivery time is 6 months. The test bench has dimensions of not less than 5000x3000x2500 mm and a mass of not less than 250 kg, and operates on 220 V power. It is paired with a control computer with a processor of 3 GHz, not less than 4 Gb RAM, not less than 1 Gb video card memory, not less than 500 Gb hard disk, and a display with definition not worse than 1920×1080. Balancing of the test platform is performed manually. The facility’s contents include: a 15 kg air bearing (1 pc.), a platform for installation of the CubeSat 3U satellite (1 pc.), a halogen sun simulator (1 pc.), a magnetic field simulator (1 pc.), an automatized working place/workstation (1 pc.), and an autonomous measurements system (1 pc.). Together these components allow simulation of orbital sun and magnetic field conditions and free rotational motion on the air bearing to functionally verify a CubeSat’s attitude determination and control system on the ground prior to flight.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.