NINTH ANNUAL

AIAA/UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

CONFERENCE

on

SMALL SATELLITES

Dr. Frank J. ReddGeneral Chairman

Gwenaley Redd-HardyConference Coordinator

Peg A. RichinsShow Manager

Wendy S. McClellanAssistant Show Manager

Denise StewardsonConference Director

Carrie MilliganAssistant Conference Director

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITYLOGAN, UTAH 84322

September 1 8 - 2 1 , 1995UB/TIB Hannover 89114 006 806

TECHNICAL SESSION IHARDWARE IN SPACE

Tuesday, September 19, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Chair: Mr. Jason Feig, US Air Force Phillips Laboratory

ASTRID: AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE MICROSATELLITE A USEFUL TOOLFOR SPACE SCIENCE

S. Grahn and A. Rathsman - Swedish Space Corporation

GFZ-1: A GEODETIC MICROSATELLITE LAUNCHED FROM SPACE STATION

W. Schulte, E. Wulf and N. Lemke - Kayser-Threde GmbH, Germany;C. Reigber and R. Konig - GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Germany

THE SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VEHICLES STRV-1A AND -IB: ONEYEAR IN GTO

N. Wells - Defence Research Agency, UK

THE TAOS/STEP SATELLITED. J. Edwards and R. W. Hosken - The Aerospace Corporation

CHINA'S "SHIJIAN (PRACTICE)-4" SATELLITEY. Zhu - Chinese Academy of Space Technology

• AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO SMALL SATELLITE TECHNOLOGYDEVELOPMENT: A STATUS REPORT OF SSTL PLATFORMS, PAYLOAD ANDMISSIONS **

J. Ward - Surrey Satellite Technology Limited

** ABSTRACT PRINTED - PAPER NOT RECEIVED IN TIME FOR PUBLICATION

TECHNICAL SESSION JJMISSION OPERATIONS

Tuesday, September 19, 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Chair: Ms. Madeleine Marshall, The Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory

UARS AND TOMS-EP PROJECT OPERATIONS CONTROL CENTERSCOLLOCATED AND REENGINEERED

E. J. Macie - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; A. H. Maury, R. Home -Computer Sciences Corporation; and J. Speer - Lockheed Martin

"FASTER, BETTER, CHEAPER" MISSION OPERATIONS EMPLOYING AREUSABLE OBJECT METHODOLOGY

D. J. Hei - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; R. S. Homstein - NASAHeadquarters; H. Liu, R. E. Miller - University of Maryland; F. J. LoPinto andJ. E. Todd - Computer Sciences Corporation

THE OPEN ARCHITECTURE APPROACH TO MISSION OPERATIONS: DMOCTO MPOC - A SUCCESS STORY **

P. Klein - Naval Research Laboratory; and T. C. Probert - Anser Corporation

THE ENGINEERING OF COST EFFICIENT OPERATIONSG. E. Cameron - The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; andG. A. Herbert - W. J. Schafer Associates, Inc.

STEPS TOWARD NEW MILLENNIUM: A UNIFIED APPROACH TO THREESATELLITE PROJECTS **

N. Groleau - NASA Ames Research Center

DEEP SPACE NETWORK SUPPORT OF SMALL MISSIONSG. K. Noreen - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

** ABSTRACT PRINTED - PAPER NOT RECEIVED IN TIME FOR PUBLICATION

TECHNICAL SESSION HISUBSYSTEMS & COMPONENTS I

Tuesday, September 19. 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Chair: Mr. Amnon Ginati - OHB System GmbH

• PULSED PLASMA THRUSTER TECHNOLOGY FOR SMALL SATELLITEMISSIONS

R. M. Myers, S. R. Oleson - NASA Lewis Research Center: M. McGuire -Analex Corporation; N. J. Meckel and R. J. Cassady - Olin Aerospace Company

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION OF ADVANCEDTECHNOLOGIES FOR SMALL SATELLITES AT PHILLIPS LABORATORYDIRECTORATE OF SPACE AND MISSILES TECHNOLOGY

H. L. Pugh Jr., R. M. Vacek, M. Hopkins and W. MacPherson - US Air ForcePhillips Laboratory; and K. Bell - The Aerospace Corporation

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS OF THE SUBMILLIMETER WAVEASTRONOMY SATELLITE (SWAS) SOLAR ARRAY DEPLOYMENT SYSTEM

G. Sneiderman - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

LOW COST/HIGH RELIABILITY ROTARY ACTUATOR FOR SPACESATELLITES **

D. Koehler - Honeywell

MICROELECTROMECHAMCAL SYSTEMS (MEMS) TECHNOLOGYINTEGRATION INTO MICROSPACECRAFT

L. Muller - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• ON THE PRACTICALITY OF A FAMILY OF POP-UP PARABOLICREFLECTORS

G. Greschik - University of Colorado at Boulder

** ABSTRACT PRINTED - PAPER NOT RECEIVED IN TIME FOR PUBLICATION

TECHNICAL SESSION IVNEW MISSION CONCEPTS I

Wednesday, September 20, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Chair: Col. Douglas Kirkpatrick, US Air Force Academy

WHALE ECOLOGY OBSERVATION SATELLITET. Hayashi, G. Etoh - Chiba Institue of Technology, Japan; T. Orii - NECCorporation, Japan; K. Maeda and Y. Masumoto - NEC Aerospace Systems Ltd.Japan

MARS RELAY SPACECRAFT: LOW-COST APPROACH **T. Svftek, J. King - Space Exploration Engineering, Inc.; R. Fulton - OrbitalSciences Corporation; R. McOmber - Stanford Telecom; R. Hastrup - JetPropulsion Laboratory; and A. Miller - NASA Headquarters

THE STUDENT NITRIC OXIDE EXPLORERS. C. Solomon, S. M. Bailey, T. E. Holden, D. C. O'Connor, J. P. Perich, M.A. Salada, G. A. Stafford, K. R. Taylor, J. E. Vian and P. R. Withnell -University of Colorado at Boulder

• THE DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF A LOW COST SCIENTIFIC STEDIMISSION **

D. J. Forrest, K. Levenson - University of New Hampshire; K. Reister, J. Parsons- Weber State University; A. Owens and C. Whitford - University of Leicester

INNOVATIVE SPACECRAFT ARCHITECTURE STUDY **H. W. Swenson, S. P. Presley, D. G. Heflinger, R. N. Constant, S. D. Szogas, PAvrin - The Aerospace Corporation; R. T. Carlson and C. R. Husbands - MITRE

MISSION OVERVIEW OF ENGINEERING TEST SATELLITE, KITSAT-3S. Kim, S. Park, D. K. Sung and S. D. Choi - Satellite Technology ResearchCenter, Korea

** ABSTRACT PRINTED - PAPER NOT RECEIVED IN TIME FOR PUBLICATION

TECHNICAL SESSION VUNIVERSITY STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION

Wednesday, September 20, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Chairs: Ms. Jayne Schnaars - Rockwell InternationalMr. Robert H. Meurer - Orbital Sciences Corporation

A SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE TO ADVANCE SMALL SATELLITE MISSIONOPERATIONS AUTONOMY

Sam Siewart and Linden H. McClure - University of Colorado at Boulder

IONOSPHERIC PLASMA TECHNOLOGY: ASUSat 1 AND ADVANCEDSPACECRAFT PROPULSION SYSTEMS

Charles H. Hewett - Arizona State University

SPARTMK: STUDENT DEVELOPED IVHRCO SATELLITE, BENEFITSEDUCATION AND INDUSTRY

Thomas C. Romano and Jason N. Leong - San Jose State University

THE DESIGN OF THE SAPPHIRE SEPARATION SYSTEM AND LAUNCHVEHICLE INTERFACE

Alison A. Nordt - Stanford University

THE OPAL SATELLITE PROJECT: CONTINUING THE NEXT GENERATION OFSMALL SATELLITE DEVELOPMENT

Brian Engberg, Jeff Ota and Jason Suchman - Stanford University

SOFT X-RAY DETECTION SYSTEM FOR THE CATSAT SMALL SATELLITESteve P. Lynch and Glenn A. Forrest - University of New Hampshire

EARTH REFERENCE JMAGER EXPERIMENT FOR SATELLITE ATTITUDEDETERMINATION

Jose' L. delaTorre, Jr. - Arizona State University

BUILDING "SMALLER, CHEAPER, FASTER" SATELLITES WITHIN THECONSTRAINTS OF AN ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT *

Richard A. Lu, Tanya A. Olsen and Michael A. Swartwout - Stanford University

* ALTERNATE - PRESENTATION IN THE POSTER SESSION

TECHNICAL SESSION VIDELIVERY SYSTEMS

Wednesday, September 20 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Chair: Ms. Karen Poniatowski - NASA Headquarters

SMALLER, BETTER, FASTER-NASA'S ULTRALITE EXPENDABLE LAUNCHVEHICLE SERVICES (UELVS)

W. Cutlip - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

• PEGASUS SHARED PAYLOAD LAUNCH ACCOMMODATIONS FOR xMICROSATAND SECONDARY PAYLOADS

C D . Pao, J. Fernandez and R. B. Fulton - Orbital Sciences Corporation

• MULTIPURPOSE TRANSPORTABLE LAUNCH SYSTEMS OF THE "START"FAMILY FOR SMALL SATELLITES DELIVERY INTO LOW EARTH ORBIT *>•

Y. Solomonov and V. Andrjushin - STC Complex, Russia

ADVANCED PROPULSION BENEFITS TO NEW MILLENNIUM CLASSMISSIONS **

L. A. Dudzinski and R. M. Myers - NASA Lewis Research Center

• BENEFITS OF LOW-POWER STATIONARY PLASMA THRUSTER PROPULSIONFOR SMALL SATELLITES

C. W. Clauss - Atlantic Research Corporation; D. L. Tilley andD. A. Barnhart - Air Force Phillips Laboratory

• TETHERS FOR SMALL SATELLITE APPLICATIONSJ. A. Carroll and John Oldson - Tether Applications

THE SCORPIUS LOW COST LAUNCH SYSTEMJ. R. Wertz and E. L. Keith - Microcosm, Inc.

** ABSTRACT PRINTED - PAPER NOT RECEIVED IN TIME FOR PUBLICATION

TECHNICAL SESSION VHINSTRUMENTS & SENSORS

Wednesday, September 20, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Chair: Ms. Lilac Muller, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

SCD2NCE INSTRUMENTATION FOR THE STUDENT NITRIC OXIDEEXPLORER

S. M. Bailey, R. A. Kohnert, R. L. McFeeters, A. M. Merkel, E. M. Rodgers, S.C. Solomon, S. D. Straight, J. E. Vian and T. N. Woods - University of Coloradoat Boulder

MINIATURIZED RF REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTSJ. L. Brady and G. G. McEachron - E-Systems

APPLYING FD3ER SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY TO SMALL SATELLITESYSTEMS

S. Jensen, D. McLain and J. C. Batty - Utah State University

• DEVELOPMENT OF A FLUORESCENT CRYOCOOLERB. C. Edwards, M. I. Buchwald, R. I. Epstein, T. R. Gosnell andC. E. Mungan - Los Alamos National Laboratory

• ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT TELESCOPES AND PRECISION POINTERS ASENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMALL, LOW COST MISSIONS

D. Wang and M. Anapol - SSG, Inc.

TECHNICAL SESSIONNEW MISSION CONCEPTS II

Thursday, September 21, 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Chair: Mr. Jim Watzin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

SMALL SATELLITES AND NOAA: A TECHNOLOGY STUDYR. K. Raney, G. H. Fountain, E. J. Hoffman, P. F. Bythrow and R. H. MaurerThe Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

• THE MARS PATHFINDER COMMERCIAL HARDWARE AND MICROGRYO(CH/tG) EXPERIMENT: LESSONS ALREADY LEARNED

D. W. Caldwell - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• SPARTAN LITE: GENESIS OF A SMALL SATELLITEE. K. Goldstein - Interstel Inc.; and S. C. Meyers - NASA Goddard Space FlightCenter

CHAMPOLLION COMET LANDER **K. Aaron and A. Dalton - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• FIRST CLASS SCIENCE ON A COACH CLASS TICKETR. H. Meurer - Orbital Sciences Corporation

DESIGN PROGRESS IN THE SATELLITE QUICK RESEARCH TESTBED(SQUIRT) PROGRAM

C. A. Kitts and R. J. Twiggs - Stanford University

* ABSTRACT PRINTED - PAPER NOT RECEIVED IN TIME FOR PUBLICATION

TECHNICAL SESSION IXATTITUDE DETERMINATION & CONTROL

Thursday, September 21, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Chair: Dr. Jim Wertz, Microcosm, Inc.

• THE MAGNETIC ATTITUDE CONTROL OF ABRIXASH. J. Konigsmann, M. Wiegand and O. Matthews - ZARM/University of Bremen,Germany

• CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR THE MARS PATHFINDER MISSION **D. Liu and S. Franklin - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

THE ATTITUDE CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN FOR THE SUBMILLIMETERWAVE ASTRONOMY SATELLITE

C. E. Clagett, T. E. Correll, M. D. Fennell, F. A. Niles, V. Z. Untaian JU -NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; J. R. Chen - K&D Research; andW. K. Daniel - CTA Special Payloads

• THE SUBMILLIMETER WAVE ASTRONOMY SATELLITE ATTITUDECONTROL SOFTWARE DESIGN

M. O. Anderson, M. D. Wennersten - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center;J. E. Bonnett and T. A. Hill - Hughes STX

THE ATTITUDE CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN FOR THE TRANSITION REGIONAND CORONAL EXPLORER MISSION

D. Zimbelman, J. Wilmot and S. Evangelista - NASA Goddard Space FlightCenter

THE MICROWAVE ELECTRO-THERMAL (MET) THRUSTER: A NEWTECHNOLOGY FOR SATELLITE PROPULSION AND ATTITUDE CONTROL

J. E. Brandenburg - Research Support Instruments; and M. M. Micci - ThePennsylvania State University

** ABSTRACT PRINTED - PAPER NOT RECEIVED IN TIME FOR PUBLICATION

TECHNICAL SESSION XSUBSYSTEMS & COMPONENTS H

Thursday, Setpember 21, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Chair: Dr. Charles Swenson, Utah State University

FAST AURORAL SNAPSHOT MISSION UNIQUE ELECTRONICS COMPLETESPACECRAFT ELECTRONICS CONTAINED IN A SINGLE ENCLOSURE

L. F. Dougherty, T. D. Gruner, J. Wilmot - NASA Goddard Space Right Center;and W. M. Chiville - Lockheed Martin Services Group

ENERGY STORAGE OPTIONS FOR LOW-COST SPACECRAFT APPLICATIONSD. Pennington, S. E. Wecker, R. D. Wright and D. K. Coates - Eagle-PicherIndustries, Inc.

AFFORDABLE POLYMER COMPOSITE STRUCTURES FOR VARIOUSSPACECRAFT STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS

G. C. Krumweide - Composite Optics, Inc.

SPACECRAFT COMPUTER SYSTEM, A HIGH PERFORMANCE FLIGHT DATASYSTEM FOR NASA'S SMALL EXPLORER SATELLITES

Q. H. Nguyen - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

• INVESTIGATION INTO LOW-COST PROPULSION SYSTEMS FOR SMALLSATELLITE MISSIONS

J. J. Sellers - U.S. Air Force; M. Paul - Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, UK;M. Meerman - University of Surrey, UK; and R. Wood - British Aerospace

• THE NEAR SPACECRAFT TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMR. S. Bokulic, J. R. Jensen and T. R. McKnight - The Johns Hopkins UniveristyApplied Physics Laboratory

TECHNICAL SESSION IHARDWARE IN SPACE

Tuesday, September 19, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Chair: Mr. Jason Feig, US Air Force Phillips Laboratory

ASTRID: AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE MICROSATELLITE A USEFUL TOOLFOR SPACE SCBENCE

S. Grahn and A. Rathsman - Swedish Space Corporation

GFZ-1: A GEODETIC MICROSATELLITE LAUNCHED FROM SPACE STATIONMHl

W. Schulte, E. Wulf and N. Lemke - Kayser-Threde GmbH, Germany;C. Reigber and R. Konig - GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Germany

THE SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VEHICLES STRV-1A AND -IB: ONEYEAR IN GTO

N. Wells - Defence Research Agency, UK

THE TAOS/STEP SATELLITED. J. Edwards and R. W. Hosken - The Aerospace Corporation

CHINA'S "SHUIAN (PRACTICE)-4" SATELLITEY. Zhu - Chinese Academy of Space Technology

• AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO SMALL SATELLITE TECHNOLOGYDEVELOPMENT: A STATUS REPORT OF SSTL PLATFORMS, PAYLOAD ANDMISSIONS **

J. Ward - Surrey Satellite Technology Limited

** ABSTRACT PRINTED - PAPER NOT RECEIVED IN TIME FOR PUBLICATION