AMSAT OSCARE Echo

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AMSAT OSCAR-E (Echo)
AMSAT OSCAR-51 (AO-51) and the New Eagle
Satellite Presented by Richard M. Hambly,
W2GPS AMSAT President
Columbia Amateur Radio Association Tuesday,
August 24, 2004 Columbia, MD
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AMSAT Presentation

• ? AMSAT
• ? AO-51 Technical Overview
• ? AO-51 Integration and Launch
• ? Operating AO-51
• ? Planning, Strategic and Tactical
• ? Whats Next? Eagle!

When in doubt see AMSATs new Web site
at www.amsat.org
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AMSATs New Web Sitewww.amsat.org
Main Web Page
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Strategic Planning

• February 2004 AMSAT began a new round of
  strategic planning.
• To be done by the board members, assisted by a
  few officers and advisors and led by an outside
  facilitator.
• Discovery process, the State Of The World.
• Decision stage, AMSAT in 45 Seconds.
• Ten Stakeholder Questions Who are you? What do
  you do? Who will care? Why will they care? How
  many will care? How do you get to those who do?
  How will you make money? How are you unique and
  how will you defend your space? Do you have the
  team to pull it off? How much money do you need
  and where does it take you?
• Results were the Mission and Vision statements
• Biweekly teleconferences to work on the action
  items.

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Tactical Planning

• It is the responsibility of AMSATs officers to
  implement the Boards strategic planning
  directives.
• In October 2004 we changed AMSATs executive
  organization
• Fewer Officers and a new emphasis on teamwork and
  cooperation, not hierarchical reporting
  responsibilities.
• President (Richard Hambly W2GPS)
• Executive VP (Lee McLamb KU4OS)
• VP Operations (Mike Kingery KE4AZN)
• VP Engineering (Stan Wood WA4NFY)
• Treasurer (Gunther Meisse W8GSM)
• Corporate Secretary (Steve Diggs W4EPI)
• Manager (Martha Saragovitz)
• VP Marketing and User Services (Barry Baines
  WD4ASW)
• VP Human Spaceflight (Frank Bauer, KA3HDO).

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Tactical Planning

• Executive VP
• Educational, industrial, governmental and
  international relations.
• VP Marketing and User Services
• Electronic communications, contests and awards,
  AMSAT News Service, sales, the AMSAT Journal,
  Field Operations and the Web site.
• VP Human Spaceflight
• This team that crosses organizational boundaries
  between AMSAT, ARRL and NASA.
• Now on the executive team, is an indication of
  the importance AMSAT places in our involvement in
  the human spaceflight program.
• AMSAT plans to be there when humans again travel
  beyond the low orbit of the International Space
  Station, perhaps to the Moon or Mars.
• Other teams are organized as in the past.

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AMSATs Strategic Plan Mission Statement

• 400-500

AMSAT is a non-profit volunteer organization
which designs, builds and operates experimental
satellites and promotes space education. We
work in partnership with government, industry,
educational institutions and fellow amateur
radio societies. We encourage technical and
scientific innovation, and promote the training
and development of skilled satellite and ground
system designers and operators.
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AMSATs Strategic Plan Vision Statement

• 400-500

Our Vision is to deploy high earth orbit
satellite systems that offer daily coverage by
2009 and continuous coverage by 2012. AMSAT will
continue active participation in human space
missions and support a stream of LEO satellites
developed in cooperation with the educational
community and other amateur satellite groups
Tom Clark W3IWI, Gerald Youngblood AC5OG and
Bruce Paige KK5DO working on AMSATs Strategic
Plan.
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AMSATs Eagle Satellite Project
Eagle!

• 6 cu ft, 50Kg
• High Elliptical Orbit
• About 80 Watt power budget

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Eagle AMSATs Next Project

• AMSATs vision is to deploy high earth orbit
  satellite systems that offer daily coverage by
  2009 and continuous coverage by 2012.
• HEO satellites are key to AMSAT fulfilling
  strategic needs
• Eagle Design Team met in Orlando FL the weekend
  of 17 JUL 04
• Mechanical/Thermal design work has been done by
  Dick Jansson, WD4FAB over the past several years
• Key team assignments were made at the design
  meeting

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Eagles History

• So You Want to Build a Satellite by Dick
  Jansson WD4FAB presented at AMSATs 18th Space
  Symposium in Portland Maine on Oct 28, 2000.
• Project Committee met July 14, 2001 in Denver,
  Colorado.
• Eagle Design Team met Sep 28, 2002 in Orlando FL.
• Eagle Design Team met the weekend of Jul 17, 2004
  in Orlando FL.
• Mechanical/Thermal design work has been done by
  Dick Jansson, WD4FAB over the past several years
• A Requirements Specification outline was
  developed and key design parameters were chosen.
• Team leadership assignments were made.

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Eagles Specifications1.0 Payloads

• 1.1 Transmitters
• V band 20KHz bandwidth using SDR techniques
• Two S Band
• 100KHz bandwidth
• Either transmitter can be driven by SDR or analog
  inputs
• C band wideband digital which includes telemetry
• All bands should be capable of being operated
  simultaneously

HEO Orbit

• 1.2 Receivers
• U band 100KHz bandwidth
• L band 100KHz bandwidth
• C band wideband digital

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Eagles Specifications1.0 Payloads

• 1.6 Telemetry beacons active on all transmitters
• The IHU will provide digital data and clock to
  the transmitter. The transmitter itself is
  responsible for data delivery.
• 1.7 Command uplinks on the U and L receivers
• Demodulation to baseband audio is in the receiver

• 1.3 GPS (NASA)
• 1.4 CEDEX (Surrey Satellite Technology)
• 1.5 Cameras
• Narrow FOV on Z axis
• Wide FOV on Z axis
• Cameras should survive all beta angles.

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Eagles Specifications2.0 Structure and Physical
Properties

• 2.1 Mass
• 100Kg or less
• 2.2 Size
• 600mm by 600mm by 450 mm with fixed and
  deployable solar panels.
• 2.3 Stabilization
• Spin stabilized ( Z Nadir pointing at apogee)
  1-15RPM
• 2.4 Orbit
• High apogee elliptical

• 2.5 Attitude Control
• Magnetorquers and nutation dampers
• Sensors
• The Sun sensors will measure the sun at all
  angles and attitudes
• The Earth sensor will measure the attitude of the
  spacecraft with respect to the Earth while its
  distance is within two radii of the Earths
  surface.
• The satellite will stabilize to the desired
  attitude in 72 hours.

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Eagles Specifications2.0 Structure and Physical
Properties

• 2.6 Propulsion
• The simplest system that will accomplish a
  desirable orbit and is acceptable to the launch
  agency. Initial estimate is 60 meters per second
  delta velocity.
• The propulsion system should be modular

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Eagles Specifications2.0 Structure and Physical
Properties

• 2.7 Structure
• Aluminum honeycomb panels forming core structure
  supporting internal modules and integrated with
  separation interface.
• 2.8 Magnetic Environment
• Magnetically clean as practically achievable

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Eagles SpecificationsThermal Control, Power
Generation and Housekeeping

• Fault tolerant BCR and battery system that fails
  in an operational mode.
• Buss voltage is 10 to 14 volts nominal.
• 5.0 Housekeeping
• IHU-3
• CAN-Do! Information buss

• 3.0 Thermal Control
• Battery temperature should not exceed a -15 to
  15C range.
• Electronics module environment should be from -25
  to 40C
• 4.0 Power Generation
• Two fixed and four deployable solar panels with
  omni coverage.

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Eagles SpecificationsHousekeeping and Antennas

• Z

Z Surface
S
C

• 6.0 Antennas
• High Gain Z
• U (435MHz), L (1.2GHz), S (2.4GHz) and C
  (5.6GHz)
• Omni Antennas, -Z (functional in all attitudes)
• V (145MHz), U, L and S
• Omni Antennas Z
• U, L and S

L over U
S
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Eagle Team Leadership Assignments
Project Manager Jim Sanford WB4GCS Chief
Technical Officer Rick Hambly W2GPS
(acting) Secretary Stephen Diggs W4EPI Structure
and Thermal Dick Jansson WD4FAB Launch Lee
McLamb KU4OS (lead), Tom Clark W3IWI (Russian
launches) Guidance and Control Ken Ernandes
N2WWD Sensors Alan Bloom N1AL Power Generation
and Distribution Lou McFadin W5DID Propulsion
Stan Wood WA4NFY (lead), Daniel Schultz N8FGV,
Ken Ernandes N2WWD Antennas Stan Wood WA4NFY
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Eagle Team Leadership Assignments
Housekeeping Bdale Garbee KB0G (data interface),
Chuck Green N0ADI, Lyle Johnson KK7P (IHU-3)
Antennas Stan Wood WA4NFY Payloads Bob McGwier
N4HY, Daniel Schultz N8FGV, Tom Clark W3IWI GPS
Lou McFadin W5DID CEDEX Robin Haighton
VE3FRH Cameras Gunther Meisse W8GSM Command and
Control/Telemetry Stephen Diggs W4EPI, Stacy
Mills W4SM Radiation Environment Steve Bible
N7HPR End of Life Issues Larry Kayser VA3LK
(SK 10/5/04)
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Eagle Whats Next?

• What are the Next Steps?
• Design Team to review and solicit comments on the
  specifications
• BOD reviews design and cost estimates
• Fundraising is a critical component
• Critical subsystems must begin design work now.
• Find a suitable launch (Hopefully sooner than
  2009)

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AMSAT Needs Your Help!

• Eagle from the Users perspective
• Review the specification (see the article in the
  2004 Proceedings).
• Volunteers are needed for key leadership and
  design positions.
• AMSAT needs your financial support
• Our ability to proceed with Eagle is directly
  dependent upon how quickly funds are donated for
  the project
• Questions?