Satellite

Biography

Biography: Valery Korepanov

Abstract

The mini-, micro- and nanosatellites (including cubesats) became the popular way to get access to the scientific experiments in space for universities and small companies. There are several successful examples of the development and manufacturing of cubesats in the universities throughout the world and some of them offer well designed sophisticated basic structure with attitude control and location determination facilities and enough informative telemetry link. Still one advantage of cubesats is, relatively low launch cost – normally, they are launched in a swarm as piggy-back payload. The most complicated problem for the realization of scientific experiments onboard cubesats remains, the development of small and light but enough sensitive sensors. Because of this the majority of cubesats launches, as far as the author could find it in available publications, are aimed at the technology demonstration missions, the goals of which are mostly the tryout of advanced cubesats service systems and not the measurements of space plasma parameters with necessary for scientific tasks solution sensitivity threshold. The present report describes the new design of miniature three-component sensors for measurements of DC and AC magnetic field and possible extension to measure electric field in space plasma which is good enough for scientific research technical parameters. Their parameters, application example and test results are discussed.