Suborbital Spaceflight Communication with a Tube-Deployed Reentry Vehicle
Abstract
NASA Ames Research Center has been working to develop a three-stage Small Payload Quick Return (SPQR) system designed to return small payloads from the international space station (ISS) back to Earth in a temperature and pressure-controlled environment. In this work, a suborbital spaceflight communication system based on Iridium Core 9523 transceiver was developed to telemetry with ground the data collected by the sensor system integrated in the Tube Deployed Reentry Vehicle (TDRV) for a Small Payload Quick Return (SPQR) system. A fully functional breakout circuit board was designed, fabricated and assembled and integrated into the TDRV to accommodate the Iridium Core 9523 transceiver and sensing and control system. A prototype of the TDRV was developed based on aluminum material and 3D printing. A balloon platform has been successfully used to develop the nanosatellite sub-system such as the Iridium Core 9523 transceiver-based data transmission system for the TDRV. The Iridium Core 9523 transceiver module and sensors are ready to be integrated to the TDRV for high altitude balloon test. This project involves a University of Idaho Near Space Engineering team to design, test, and validate of spaceflight technologies that will eventually fly as a technology demonstration on the SOAREX sub-orbital and TechEdSat-N orbital flight series.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFM.P31B3433L
- Keywords:
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- 6297 Instruments and techniques;
- PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS;
- 6964 Radio wave propagation;
- RADIO SCIENCE;
- 6979 Space and satellite communication;
- RADIO SCIENCE;
- 6994 Instruments and techniques;
- RADIO SCIENCE