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The recent Mars lander mission included a pair of 6U cubesats used to relay communications. They worked great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Cube_One https
by NelsonMinar 8y ago
The recent Mars lander mission included a pair of 6U cubesats used to relay communications. They worked great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Cube_One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Cube_One
- planteen 8y agoI worked on the software for the attitude determination and control system (ADCS) for the MarCO spacecraft.
- NelsonMinar 8y agoWell congratulations! Was it fun? Is working on a cubesat radically different than other types of satellites, or do the control systems end up working more or less the same?
- planteen 8y agoNot radically different. The company that did this work was staffed with engineers who had experience on larger spacecraft. The fundamental algorithms are the same. The difference is that everything is much smaller - less momentum, so less large reaction wheels, etc. The nice part is that you can use commercial parts, so you get access to much more modern electronics than old rad hard parts.