Esip 2019 Winter Plenary - Dan Pilone - From Baseline Science Instruments to CubeSats
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Element 84 has been working in the ballooning CubeSat space and recognizes the massive amount of data flowing in from CubeSats and that the biggest use of CubeSats are commercial companies and universities. Previously, only big government agencies could afford satellite remote sensing instruments, then big companies (e.g. DigitalGlobe), and now CubeSats have commoditized satellite data collection such that universities and smaller companies are able to launch their own missions. Each of these constellations are capable of streaming down massive amounts of data, providing nearly constant Earth observation and rapid revisit rates. This talk discusses CubeSats 101, our commercial data pipeline infrastructure (CubeSatData.com) that commoditized what used to be the exclusively in the realm of NASA, NOAA, and companies like DG, and the implications of the increased accessibility of SmallSat data collection.
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Esip 2019 Winter Plenary - Dan Pilone - From Baseline Science Instruments to CubeSats
- 1. From Baseline Science Instruments to CubeSats Dan Pilone dan@element84.com January 15, 2019 WINTER 2019 Challenges and Opportunities with the Growth of Space Based Data Acquisition and the Commercial World
- 2. CubeSat 101
- 3. What are CubeSats CubeSats 101 nanosats.eu/cubesat.html By Cbrandonvt - Own work, CC BY 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37677790
- 4. Strict specifications allows for mass production of parts, reducing cost. What are CubeSats CubeSats 101 CubeSat Design Specfication (CDS): http://www.cubesat.org
- 7. • Poly-Picosatellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD) supports up to 3U worth of CubeSats. • Bigger dispensers now available • Kind of bolted onto whatever won’t fall off. • Launch vehicle says when to release, door opens, satellites stream out. CubeSat Dispenser Systems CubeSats 101 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/engineering/small-sat/nlas https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Three-1U-CubeSats-beside-a-3U-Poly-Picosatellite-Orbital- Deployer-PPOD-developed-at_fig2_317036984
- 8. CubeSat Dispenser Systems CubeSats 101 Naval Postgraduate School CubeSat Thesis apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a509158.pdf
- 9. CubeSats 101
- 10. Putting this in context…
- 12. • Baseline science quality data • 2623kg • 3m long, 2.4m diameter • ~$850 billion • 5+ year design life (Landsat 5 flew for 29 years) Different Goals Applications and Uses landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/landsat-8/landsat-8-overview/ https://www.nanosats.eu/cubesat.html • Experiments, rapid iteration, “good enough” data • ~1-1.33kg • 10cm Cube • ~$40k + Launch Fees • Weeks to months design life
- 14. Applications and Uses nanosats.eu/index.html#figures Launches by institutions
- 16. spaceflight.com
- 17. !
- 18. So you want to build a CubeSat…
- 19. So you want to build a CubeSat…
- 20. NASA CubeSat 101 So you want to build a CubeSat…
- 21. cubesatshop.com So you want to build a CubeSat…
- 22. AWS Ground Stations So you want to build a CubeSat…
- 23. cubesatdata.com So you want to build a CubeSat…
- 24. Implications
- 25. • Rapid iteration and learning • Power Systems • Positioning Methods • Radios • Sensors • Propulsion Systems • Satellite Constellations • Operations Prototyping Agile Satellite Development Implications
- 26. • Education • Broom-closet clean rooms • University clubs • Small and Developing country satellites • Makes Space real Personalization of Space Implications
- 27. • Vanity Satellites? • Rick-rolling from space? Marketing and Entertainment Implications • Sounds from space • FunCube
- 28. • Hundreds of new CubeSats deployed each year • Trending toward a 50 percent increase in the number of collisions • Over the past 25 years, the number of tracked space objects >4in has increased from 8k to 18k. • Only 7% of these objects are operational satellites. • Each of the LEO satellites operated by ESA has to perform a maneuver to avoid a tracked piece of debris at least once a year Space Debris Implications en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel-1 https://www.space.com/36506-cubesats-space-junk-apocalypse.html
- 29. How do we share it? MOAR SPACE DATA Implications Individuals are going to have to face the problems NASA, NOAA, etc. have been wrestling with for years: • Ingest & Archive • Metadata & Discovery • Interoperability • Quality • Distribution • Visualization How do we get at it? Where do we put it?
- 30. • Construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea • Deforestation • Suburban Sprawl • Population movement and humanitarian crisis • Military Facilities • “Outting“ of undisturbed populations • US Government restricts spatial resolution to 25cm / pixel. Other governments allow for higher resolution Geostrategic and Political Implications Implications PLANET LABS INC/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS Satellite imagery from Google Earthhttps://irevolutions.org/2017/07/13/planet-labs-rapid-response-team/
- 31. History can be recorded…
- 32. Martin Rees Cosmologist, Astrophysicist and Britain’s Astronomer Royal Seeing the whole Earth as a single entity is not new. … Satellites have enough resolution to observe every big tree in the world every day.
- 33. History can be recorded…
- 34. "You realize that all the lines on the maps really do not exist. You can't even tell where one country starts and the other one stops. All those things that create conflict just melt away, and you can see our planet as one home for all of us" Anousheh Ansar on the view from the ISS