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The Status of University Nanosatellites in China
Dr. Yu Xiaozhou
Northwestern Polytechnical University
14th Annual CubeSat Developers Workshop
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CONTENTS
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3 Nanosatellites research in China
3 CubeSats development in NPU
3 Flight result and lesson learned of NPU
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Nanosatellite research in Chinese universities
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Nano satellites development in China
• HIT
- LilacSat-2 (2015,nanosate)
- LilacSat-1(2017)Missions: INMS
New mode amateur repeater
CMOS camera
• NJUST
- NJUST-1(2015), NJUST-2(2017)
- Young-1(2016), Canton-1(2017)Missions: AIS receiving
Earth observation
Aerospace education
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Nano satellites development in China
• Tsinghua
- NS-1 (2004,nanosat)
- NS-2 (2015,nanosat)
Missions: CMOS camera
MEMS
Orbit maneuver
Star tracker
• ZJU
- ZDPS-1 (2007,nanosat)
- ZDPS-1A (2010,nanosat)
- ZDPS-2A(2015,nanosat)
Missions: S-band comms
MEMS test,
GNSS
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CubeSats development in NPU
2011, CubeSat structure design competition in NPU
2012, Aoxiang Cup CubeSat design competition in ShannxiProvince
China Graduate Student Future Flight Vehicle InnovationCompetition
Many presentations of CubeSat are given in the Chinese
universities each year
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Brief introduction of NPU
Aeronautics
Astronautics
Marine
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Spacecraft research team in NPU
- 28 staffs , average age is about 34.- Over 60 postgraduates
- Participated in SZ spaceship, Beidou
navigation satellite system, Chang’E
lunar orbiter, FY-2, FY-3 and etc.
- Comprehensive experiment conditions
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Research history of CubeSats in NPU
2010
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Graduate project
2U AX-1 joined QB50
SAOX,payload of CZ-7Xingyun-1 launched
AX-1 launched
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The first 12U CubeSat in the world
Polarized sunlight
navigation and
other experiments
EducationVerification of 12U
CubeSat Platform
Star of Aoxiang
12U CubeSat
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Subsystems of 12U CubeSat
COMMPayload
Power OBC&ADCS
Structure
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12U CubeSat structure
1.5kg(Including structure, rails and side panels )
Al7075
226.3mm×226.3mm×340.5mm
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On board computer
1
2
9*2
3
4
Monitor+host processor
Two host ARMs
Voting architecture
Rich interfaces
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Attitude determination and control system
GPS/BD receiverAttitude sensors
Actuators
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Electromagnetic unlocking POD
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Developed subsystems
RW
EPS
OBC
Structure
MTQ
POD Wireless
Sun sensor
GPS/BD
Another 6U CubeSat has used the
subsystems
More CubeSats has decided to
use the components
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AoXiang-1— 2U CubeSat for QB50 project
Project supported by EU FP7,
launched in April, 2017
23 countries/regions have
participated
Von Karman Institute for Fluid
Dynamics, TU-Delft , Surrey
Space Centre, Mullard Space
Science Laboratory, NPU,
Stanford University, etc.
Satellite network consisting
of 23 satellites used for
lower thermosphere
measurement and reentry
research
Seventh Framework
Agreement of EU
Initiator Members Science Mission
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2U CubeSats : Xingyun-1 and Aoxiang-1
Payload: INMS(QB50)/Com board(Xingyun)
Power: Solar panels and EPS
ADCS: Magnetometer, RW, MTQ, etc
COMM : UHF/VHF
Structure : 2U
POD : 2U EMUPOD(Xingyun)
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Flight result and lesson learned
All the mission of SAOX has accomplished.
The data of Xingyun-1 has been received
and the new POD is successful.
The attitude control system and payload
worked very well, the data was
successfully downloaded and got some
interesting result .
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Flight result and lesson learned
Radiation
EMC tests
Ground
experiments
Chips
selected
Thermal
analysis
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