Space Science and Engineering Laboratory

FIREBIRD and

SSEL Space Weather Missions

Ehson MoslehSystems Engineer

Space Science and Engineering LaboratoryMontana State University

CubeSat Developers WorkshopApril 20, 2011

Current SSEL Programs

Solar Physics

Space Weather

SSEL Activities w/o Powerpoint SmartArt

GraphicsExplorer 1 Prime

Primarily a Student Education Mission.

Also a Space Weather mission looking at energetic particles in the Van Allen Belts.

Set to Launch on Oct. 25, 2011.

SSEL Activities w/o Powerpoint SmartArt

GraphicsExplorer 1 Prime

Primarily a Student Education Mission.

Also a Space Weather mission looking at energetic particles in the Van Allen Belts.

Set to Launch on Oct. 25, 2011.

RAMPARTS

Delivering a energetic particle detector.

2U CubeSat with a consortium of industry and academia.

SSEL Activities w/o Powerpoint SmartArt

GraphicsExplorer 1 Prime

Primarily a Student Education Mission.

Also a Space Weather mission looking at energetic particles in the Van Allen Belts.

Set to Launch on Oct. 25, 2011.

FIREBIRD

Primarily a Science Mission looking at Relativistic Electron Microburts.

Two 1.5U Cubesats for the NSF Program

Ready by Q3 CY 2012

RAMPARTS

Delivering a energetic particle detector.

2U CubeSat with a consortium of industry and academia.

SSEL Activities w/o Powerpoint SmartArt

GraphicsExplorer 1 Prime

Primarily a Student Education Mission.

Also a Space Weather mission looking at energetic particles in the Van Allen Belts.

Set to Launch on Oct. 25, 2011.

FIREBIRD

Primarily a Science Mission looking at Relativistic Electron Microburts.

Two 1.5U Cubesats for the NSF Program

Ready by Q3 CY 2012

RAMPARTS

Delivering a energetic particle detector.

2U CubeSat with a consortium of industry and academia.

SpaceBuoy

ARFL Univ Nanosat Entry as 3UCubesat

UV Photometer Payload and Radio Occultation Experiments.

Looking to improve ionosphericforecasting.

Explorer 1 Prime and MEROPE

• Explorer 1 Launches as first US satellite and discovers the Earth’s radiation belts

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Explorer 1 Prime and MEROPE

• MEROPE was launched in 2006 on a DNEPR from Kazakastan.• “CraterSynchronous Orbit”

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Explorer 1 Prime and MEROPE

• MEROPE was launched in 2006 on a DNEPR from Kazakastan.• “CraterSynchronous Orbit”

• E1P was launched on March 4, 2011 on a Taurus XL for the ELaNa 1 Mission.

• “AquaSynchronous Orbit”

20111958 2006

E1P Flight Unit 2 (E1P-FU2)

• Manifested on the ELaNa 3 Mission.• October 25, 2011 with NPP as the Primary on a Delta II• Vandenberg Air Force Base• Delivery of the unit July 25, 2011• Currently undergoing full integration testing.

FIREBIRD

Focused Investigation of Relativistic Electron Burst, Intensity, Range, and Dynamics (FIREBIRD)– Funded by the National Science Foundation– Participating Institutions

• SSEL – Montana State University• University of New Hampshire• Los Alamos National Laboratories• The Aerospace Corporation

Fly two 1.5kg (1.5U) cubesat spacecraft to assess the spatial scale and spatial/temporal ambiguity of magnetospheric relativistic electron microbursts: 1) What is the spatial scale size of an individual burst?2) What is the energy dependence of an individual burst?3) How much total electron loss do bursts produce globally?

FIREBIRD Science

Lorentzen, et al GRL 2001

> 1 MeV electrons Microbursts are short (<100ms)

bursts of electron precipitation from the radiation belts

Initial work started in the 1960s from balloon measurements

Studied sporadically since then (e.g. Aerospace and others)

Primary form of electron loss on the dayside?

FIREBIRD Payload

GOES-R Flight Spares

UNH is developing energetic particle sensor for the NOAA GOES-R mission (Lopate, Connell, McKibben)

Nearly identical package with footprint that fits onto FIRE boards

Project design changed during development rendering detectors obsolete for project

Flight quality detectors in sufficient number in bonded storage in UNH clean room

UNH (through ATK) requests release of detectors from NOAA to UNH for use by NSF on FIREBIRD (Agency to agency transfer)

FIREBIRD Bus

GPS/Payload interface Board

Novatel OEMV-1 GPS

AstroDev Helium Radio

Tiger EPS

Pumpkin CDH

Tiger Innovations EPS

SA Inputs 4 Independent Peak Power Trackers with 2.5A max per channel

Battery Li-Ion1.8 A-hr 4.2 V Cells (x2)

Shunt Dissipates Excess ArrayPwr

Power < 50 mW quiescent drawSize 96 x 90 x 20 mm (w/battery)Mass 167 g (w/battery)Output Voltages

8.4 V (2 switchable channels)(Unregulated Bus Voltage)

5 V @ 2 A 3.3 V @ 2 A

Flight Software Test Bed

In Development with Advanced Solutions Inc. and The SI Organizations.

Ready end of June 2011.

FSW Test Bed Demo with Hardware at the Summer Workshop and SmallSat Conference 2011.

SpaceBuoy

3U CubeSat for the AFRL University Nanosat 7 competition– Payloads

• UV Photometer for Electron Density Profile and TEC• Radio Occultation for line of sight and slant TEC

– Bus • Same Avionics package as FIREBIRD• Same Software plus added ADACS and Payload modules• Two different modes of operation for ADACS to enhance future science payload

accommodations• Processing of data into the GAIM Forecasting model currently used by AFWA.

6U Designs

Sponsors and Partners

The SI Organization

Advanced Solutions Inc. (ASI)

Tiger Innovations

LANL

UNH

NSF

Questions?

For more information contact:

Dr. David Klumparklump@physics.montana.edu

Research Professor of PhysicsDirector, Space Science and Engineering Laboratory

Associate Director for Student Flight Projects, Montana Space Grant ConsortiumP.O. Box 173840

Montana State UniversityBozeman, MT 59717-3840

Office: (406) 994-6169Mobile: (406) 579-9674

Fax: (406) 994-4452

Visit us online at: http://ssel.montana.edu