SSTL-MICRO
SSTL (Surrey Satellite Technology)
Highly capable microsatellite platform offering strong payload power, mass capacity and redundancy.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Mass
- 30 kg
- Payload capacity
- 65 kg
- Power
- 63 W
- Data rate
- 140 Mbps
- Design life
- 7 years
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
- Platform mass
- From ~30 kg
- Payload mass
- Up to 65 kg for payload chain
- Payload envelope
- Max W 45 x L 34 x H 34 cm
- Payload power
- Up to 63 W OAP at 100% duty cycle, up to 200 W peak
- Design life
- 7 years
- Reference design orbit
- 500-800 km Sun Synchronous
- Attitude control
- 3-axis stabilised; sun sensors knowledge/control <2.5 deg, star tracker knowledge <0.05 deg / control <0.1 deg
- GPS performance
- Position 5 m, Velocity 10 cm/s, Time 100 ns
- Propulsion
- SSTL xenon system; can support small EP systems
- Power options
- 28 V unregulated up to 18 Ah battery; 12 V unregulated 12 Ah battery
- S-band RF uplink
- 19.2 kbps FSK
- S-band RF downlink
- 38.4 kbps QPSK
- Payload data storage
- 240 GBytes
- Max read/write rate
- Up to 10 Gbit/s, interface dependent
- Optional payload downlink
- 2 Mbps S-band, up to 140 Mbps X-band
About
SSTL-MICRO is a highly capable microsatellite platform built on SSTL’s Core Avionics suite, offering strong payload power, mass carrying capability and redundancy. It provides excellent power provision via a high capacity battery enabling continuous payload operation, and is offered as a ‘platform-to-go’ with customer-provided payload or a fully integrated SSTL/off-the-shelf/custom payload. Suitable payloads include Earth imaging, software defined radio, science and atmospheric observation, LEO telecoms, technology demonstration, radiation monitoring and AIS. The platform has dual redundant core avionics and AOCS, a validated system FDIR, and capable propulsion options, and is compatible with Viasat Real Time Earth ground station networks.
Documentation
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