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Spacecraft & Ground Segment overview
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OVERVIEWMission setup and Industry teamsLaunch and OrbitSatellite key figuresMain and techno demo payloadGround segment (MOC)
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•ESA General Support Technology Program
•PRoject for On Board Autonomy
• 2nd small mission for in orbit demonstration of platform and payload technologies
• Accomodation of guest payload providing user data (Solar/Plasma physics)
• LEO SSO with minimised eclipse time
• 2 years operational lifetime specification
• High degree of spacecraft autonomy and ground support automation
• PROBA 2 expands on PROBA1 experience (currently for 8.5 years in orbit)
Mission setup
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Project Industry teamsPrime
Qinetiq Space (B) • Prime activities • System definition, integration and validation • AOCS IF development • Operations during LEOP and Commissioning • Ground Segment Development • ADPMS avionics development (separate contract)
STT (D) • RF electronics • RF antennas
Zarm (D) • Magnetotorquers Billingsley • Magnetometers Metravib (F) • Hinges Dutch Space (NL) • Hold down and release mechanism
Spacebel (B) • On board software • SVF • Ground segment
NGC Aerospace (CA) • AOCS algorithms Dynacon (CA) • Reaction Wheels Selex Galileo (I) • Photo-Voltaic Assembly DTU (DK) • Star Tracker SAFT (F) • Battery APCO (CH) • Structure DLR (D) • GPS
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Company Solar Observation payload CSL, ROB (B) • SWAP CSL/PMOD/MPS, ROB (B, CH, D) • LYRA Plasma environment payload
Institute of Atmospheric Physics (CZ) • DSLP • TPMU
Company Technology Demonstrators
SSTL (UK) • Propulsion subsystem Bradford Engineering/TNO - (UK/NL) • Cool Gas Generator Experiment TNO (NL) • DSS Selex Galileo (I) • Bepi Colombo star tracker Space-X (CH) • X-CAM MPB (CA) • FSD CSL (B) • ESP DTU (DK) • SGVM Thales Alenia Space (F) • dual frequency GPS Lusospace (PT) • CCM Federal Unitary State Enterprise (RUS) • LRR NGC (CA) • innovative GNC algorithms Qinetiq Space (B) • TDM ZARM (D) • ZMM
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•Launched on 2nd of November 2009 on Rockot from Pletsetsk as a co-passenger with ESA SMOS spacecraft
•Orbit :•LEO SSO orbit dawn-dusk 06:00-18:00•Visual light eclipses from mid-November to end of January•Altitude of 730 km•Orbit suitable for more than 10 years
•3 months of commissioning until end of January•Routine operations phase since February 2010•Operated by ESA with the MOC located at the ESA Redu ground station (B)•2 ground stations: Redu (B) and Svalbard (N) to support 9 satellite passes per day.
Launch / Orbit
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LAUNCH
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Sun pointing with automatic manoeuvring
120 kgs, 60 x 70 x 85 cm, 60 W
Mixed Honeycomb structure Alu/CFRP
2 deployable solar panels + 1 body mounted
Single box miniature avionics (ADPMS)
18 Ah Lithium-Ion battery
S-band RF system ( 1 Mbps downlink, 64 kbps uplink
3-axis stabilized with full redundancy
Key Figures
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Sun observation mode general concept
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•Four 90 deg manoeuvres per orbit in order to avoid blinding of the star tracker
•High pointing accuracy and stability
•Payload operation mode
•Pointing offset capability
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Block Diagram
New Technologies
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Platform technologies
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Data&Power Management System ADPMS (QinetiQ Space)
Reaction Wheel RW-1000 (Dynacon)
3-Junction GaAs Cells Integrated diode (Selex Galileo)
Miniature Phoenix GPS receiver (DLR)
Li-Ion Battery(SAFT) Micro Miniature Star Tracker
Electronics (DTU)
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Sun Payload
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LYRA (CSL, ROB, PMODWRC):- Solar UV radiometer- 3 detectors with closeable covers- mass:3.5 kg- cadence: up to 100 Hz- Data processing done on board
SWAP (CSL, ROB): - Extreme UV imager of the solar corona- mass: 10 kg- nominal cadence: 1 image per minute- image processing done on-board
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DSLP (Czech republic): -Two probes located on a deployable panel-Space plasma and variations-Electron density-Satellite potential
TPMU (Czech republic): -Total ion density, - Ion composition and temperature-Potential of satellite body
Plasma physics payload
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Technology demonstrators
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TOPSTAR Dual Band GPS(ALCATEL)
Bepi Colombo Star Tracker (SG)
Fiber Optic Sensor Demonstrator (MPB, CA)
Laser Retro Reflector (RU)
Science Grade VectorMagnetometer (DTU)
eXploration Camera (Space-X)
Cold Gas Propulsion (SSTL & Bradford)
CCM(Lusospace, P)
ZMM (ZARM)Digital Sun Sensor
(TNO)
TDM (QS)
Experimental Solar Panel (CSL)
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XCAM Europe 2010_06_02T18_04_00
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Ground segment interactions and responsibilities
- Science operations centre- LYRA/SWAP planning and - LYRA/SWAP data processing
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MOC(Redu, B) SOC
(ROB, Brussels)
G/S Redu(B)
- Mission operation centre- Flight dynamics- Operations planning (incl. Tech demos)- S/C operations
G/S Svalbard
(N)
- Uplink / downlink
PI’s
- Uplink / downlink
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Ground segment: operations automation• All the nominal spacecraft operations are automated:
• Satellite/ground station pass prediction and planning• Ground and spacecraft pass activities, e.g. :
• Spacecraft status check• Telecommands uplink for the on board scheduler
• SOC Science request processing (Instrument Operation Sheet)• Data extraction and transfer• Email generation
• Operator intervention only needed for special requests :•e.g. to plan specific test for any demonstration unit
• Based on the use of an automated pass flow (Mission Pass Scheduler)
• All satellite telemetry accessible on-line for display and reporting.
• Internet connection for Svalbard connection, data request and distribution.
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Multi-pass prediction system & management Control Centre
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Control CentreEGSE & Mission Control System (EMCS)
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Control CentreMission Pass Scheduler (MPS)
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Ground segment: satellite contact activities
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Phase 1 – Ground Segment preparation•Updates files•BBE configuration
Phase 5 – Data processing•HK TM Playback•Reports :TM and events printouts, graphics,, Ops logs , etc…•Payload data extraction•Data Transfer to MDS, Redu and ROB server•Daily reports
Phase 2 – Ground Segment preparation•Redu antennas set-up•Restart EGSE, TMTC, SCOS•MDS IOS preparation and pass check
Phase 3 – Contact with satellite•Acquisition of signal check (AOS)•RF stability Test•RT activities – Uplink of TC - SC health check•TM stores dump•OBET check and scheduling activities•SWAP images download• Plasma and Techno demo activities •AOB
Phase 4 – Loss of contact •S/C health check•On board scheduler read back•Disable RT HK PKTs•Switch off uplink
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Small S-band terminals:REDU-3 & 4
GS Infrastructure
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Base Band Equipment
COTS based BBE (ENERTEC unit from ZODIAC (F) )
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PROBA 2 Ground Segment
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