INSPIRE and Beyond Deep Space CubeSats at JPL Andrew Klesh [email protected] JPL’s LEO CubeSat Fleet 300-800 km M-Cubed / COVE 1 & 2 CubeSat On-Orbit Verification Experiment Intelligent Payload EXperiment (IPEX) GRIFEX GEO-CAPE ROIC In-Flight Experiment RACE Radiometer Atmospheric CubeSat Experiment LMRST Low Mass Radio Science Transponder LEO CubeSats Beyond Low-Earth Orbit 1,500,000 km INSPIRE-A Earth Orbit INSPIRE Interplanetary NanoSpacecraft Pathfinder In a Relevant Environment INSPIRE-B Mission Objectives: • Demonstrate and characterize nano-spacecraft telecommunications, navigation, command & data handling, and relay communications • Demonstrate science utility with compact science payloads • Demonstrate ability to monitor and power cycle COTS & university systems INSPIRE: Ready for Flight X-Band Patch Antennas & Structure (JPL) UHF Antenna (ISIS) Magnetometer (JPL) Cold-Gas ACS (U. Texas) Star Tracker (Blue Canyon) Processing Board (Tyvak) CDH & UHF Radio (AstroDev) Batteries & EPS (U. Michigan) X-Band Transponder (JPL) Deployable Solar Panels (Pumpkin) INSPIRE Overview: Volume: 2 x 3U (10x10x30cm) Mass: 4.0 kg Power Generation: 3 Axis Stabilized: 20 W Tumbling: 13 W Data Rates: 62-256,000 bps Software: Developed in-house (protos) ! ! ! I&T: In-house S/C I&T, external environmental testing, NASA CLI P-Pod/Launch Integration Operations: Primary: DSN Secondary (Receive only): DSS-28 (GAVRT), & Secondary Stations ! Status: Ready for launch campaign 157,077,764 km Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing Sept 28, 2016 March 2016 Earth MarCO TCM 5 Mars Mars Cube One TCM 4 TCM 3 6.5 Month Cruise TCM 2 March 2016 TCM 1 Earth Entry, Descent, and Landing Sept 28, 2016 MarCO Mars Cube One Mission Objective: • Provide an 8kbps real-time relay for InSight’s Entry, Descent and Landing at Mars MGA, LGA, Structure (JPL) Solar Arrays (MMA) Cold Gas Thrusters (Vacco) X-Band Transponder (JPL) SSPA & LNA (JPL) CDH & EPS (AstroDev) Attitude Control (BCT) High Gain Reflectarray (JPL) MarCO Overview: Volume: 2 x 6U (12x24x36cm) Mass: 14.0 kg Power Generation: Earth: 35 W Data Rates: 62-8,000 bps Delta-V: >40 m/s Software: FSW: protos (JPL) GSW: AMPCS (NASA/JPL) ! ! ! I&T: In-house S/C I&T, testing, Tyvak NLAS/Launch Integration Operations: Primary: DSN 34m EDL: Madrid 70m Mission Objective: • Provide an 8kbps real-time relay for InSight’s Entry, Descent and Landing at Mars UHF Antenna (JPL) Thermal Radiator (JPL) MarCO Overview: Volume: 2 x 6U (10x10x30cm) Mass: 14.0 kg Power Generation: Earth: 35 W Data Rates: 62-8,000 bps Delta-V: >40 m/s Software: FSW: protos (JPL) GSW: AMPCS (NASA/JPL) ! ! ! I&T: In-house S/C I&T, testing, Tyvak NLAS/Launch Integration Operations: Primary: DSN 34m EDL: Madrid 70m Mission Objective: • Provide an 8kbps real-time relay for InSight’s Entry, Descent and Landing at Mars MarCO-A s kbp 8 and rth B X a To E MarCO-B DSN 70m Reception s kbp 8 and X-B o Earth T UHF Relay InSight Entry, Descent, and Landing Sept 28, 2016 CubeSats at Mars Arriving 2016 © California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged.
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