ELECTRICAL GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT (EGSE) DESIGN FOR SMALL SATELLITE

Laurel. Maryland Design of the U2 Experiment Ground Support Equipment

Small satellites and sensor payloads aboard larger spacecraft can benefit from ground support equipment (GSE) which reduces the time and cost of developing and flight qualifying space instruments. Userfriendly microcomputers and a comprehensive system design make such GSE possible and, due to the availability of high speed processors with real-time operating systems, even sophisticated instrume...

An AI Electrical Ground Support Equipment for Controlling and Testing a Space Instrument

An versatile and modular Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) system has been developed using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to control and test the PESCA instrument and the communication process with the satellite without any human supervision. The PESCA instrument has been designed and built with the purpose of studying the Solar Energetic Particles and the Anomalous Cosmic Ray...

Design of a Distributed Ground Support System for Small Satellites

On February 23, 1999 South Africa's first satellite SUNSAT was launched. The satellite was designed and built entirely at the University of Stellenbosch, a project spanning 8 years. Up to 1999 the bulk of the development work was done on the satellite itself, with time constraints limiting the work done on the ground support system. This led to a situation where the ground station was developed...

Analysis of Utility Hydrogen Systems & Hydrogen Airport Ground Support Equipment

Directed Technologies, Inc. has completed three analysis projects for the hydrogen program office during the past year: a detailed mass production cost estimate for stationary proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell systems, an assessment of the costs of producing electricity from stationary fuel cells for buildings with hydrogen and heat cogeneration, and a preliminary assessment of the use o...

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