UKSEDS submitted a proposal to fly a payload on UKube-1 and has been selected!

You can read the press release from the UK Space Agency here. Various documents describing the payload can be found below, our blog is here and we’ll be adding more as the project progresses, so keep an eye on this page to find out what is happening.

UKSEDS UKube1 payload ‘myPocketQub 442’ proposal abstract

United Kingdom Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (UKSEDS) propose launching an open source myPocketQub IQEA with five experiments as a UKube1 payload.

The primary mission is to gain space heritage for myPocketQub IQEA. The secondary mission is to obtain results from each experiment. All aspects of the project are open source and will be documented on myPocketQub.com for anyone to follow.

A myPocketQub is a 46mm x 46mm x 46mm picosatellite platform (one eighth of the internal volume of a typical 1U CubeSat structure) with its sub-systems built into its solar panel walls leaving the centre free for multiple 32mm x 32mm x [Z]mm payloads.

A myPocketQub In-plane Qub with Experiment Array (IQEA) is a myPocketQub flat packed on a CubeSat PC/104 card with multiple positions for mounting standard myPocketQub payloads.

The five flight-ready experiment payloads are:

  • OpenSpace365 – Arduino with sensors allowing 365 school pupils, university students and hobbyists to develop and fly virtual software payloads on-orbit for a day each for free
  • OrbitView – imaging payload to capture 360 degree panoramas from multiple points on-orbit to allow anyone to ‘look out of the window’ of UKube1, Google Street View style
  • Qubduino – Arduino with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to space qualify the FPGA, test self repairing algorithms and host advanced virtual payloads
  • SuperLab – physics experiment to characterise superconductor materials
  • SuperSprite – satellite on a chip proof-of-concept with solar cells, energy storage, microcontroller and transceiver

The ground segment of the project is provided by the Open Mission Control application which is a generic CubeSat ground control application and framework that as well as supporting myPocketQub 442, will support the main UKube-1 CubeSat, the FUNcube subsystem and any other payloads or CubeSats that wish to use it.

UKSEDS is an independent, student-based organisation which promotes the exploration and development of space with more than 150 members from more than a dozen British universities. Its members are major contributors to the flight-ready myPocketQub reference implementation.

For more information about this proposal, please email spaceprojects@ukseds.org

SOCIS

The Open Mission Control portion of the myPocketQub 442 project has been selected to take part in the ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) program! The SOCIS page for the project can be found here.

Outreach documents

Reference documents

UKSEDS documents:

The following documents have kindly been made freely distributable by Clyde Space and the United Kingdom Space Agency:

 

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