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Paper Abstract
BIRDY is a 3-Unit CubeSat that is piggy-backed on a host mission to Mars and jettisoned at the beginning of the
journey. Then it operates in full autonomy: no assistance, no communication but a beacon signal. The mission profile is a
new contribution in Space Weather monitoring and an opportunity to assess the risks in the manned missions to Mars. It
counts energetic particles in the maximum range 1 MeV/nucleon to 1 GeV/nucleon. The ground segment prepares a finetuned
trajectory to be stored on-board, on the basis of the planed trajectory of the host mission that provides the main
delta-V but not the ideal path. It makes the CubeSat compatible with almost all missions going to Mars. During the
cruise, the CubeSat relies on an optical planet tracking system to locate itself and on small electrical thrusters to adapt its
trajectory and perform the exact flyby at Mars that permits to come back to the Earth. The science data are collected all
along the journey and only uploaded once in Mars' vicinity to one of the existing Martian orbiters or rovers, and once at
the arrival back to the Earth. More widely than its own scientific mission, BIRDY demonstrates a new way to gather data
from distant locations in the solar system. The project is an educational space mission, essentially leaded and designed
by students from different educational levels in France and in Taiwan.
Paper Details
Date Published: 4 August 2014
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 9150, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VI, 91501N (4 August 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2056114
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9150:
Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VI
George Z. Angeli; Philippe Dierickx, Editor(s)
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 9150, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VI, 91501N (4 August 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2056114
Show Author Affiliations
Boris Segret, Lab. d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris (France)
Jordan Vannitsen, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
Marco Agnan, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
Audrey Porquet, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie (France)
Oussema Sleimi, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
Jordan Vannitsen, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
Marco Agnan, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
Audrey Porquet, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie (France)
Oussema Sleimi, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
Florent Deleflie, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie (France)
Jiun-Jih Miau, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
Jyh-Ching Juang, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
Kaiti Wang, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
Jiun-Jih Miau, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
Jyh-Ching Juang, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
Kaiti Wang, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9150:
Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VI
George Z. Angeli; Philippe Dierickx, Editor(s)
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