Design and development of HAUSAT-1 picosatellite system (CubeSat)

This paper addresses the development and design of the HAUSAT-1 (Hankuk Aviation University SATellite-1), a new generation picosatellite, being developed by SSRL (Space System Research Lab.) of Hankuk Aviation University. This project is funded by Korean Government for the purpose of developing the space core technology. This is the first satellite development program executed at the level of university in Korea. The CubeSat project is to develop the satellite weighing less than 1 kg and provides opportunities with low construction, low launch cost space experiment platforms with shorter production cycles. The HAUSAT-1 project offers graduate and undergraduate students great opportunities to be able to understand the design process of satellite development and have practical experience as a team member. Its mission objectives are collecting the satellite position data with spaceborne GPS receiver, experiment on deployment mechanism of solar cell panel and homemade sun sensor, and getting data related to satellite SOH (State of Health) data from various sensors. The HAUSAT-1 will orbit at the altitude of perigee 600 km/spl sim/apogee 650(/spl sim/900) km with 98 degree inclination angle as sun synchronous for 1 year of design mission life. The HAUSAT-1 is planned to launch in the third quarter of 2004 by the Russian "Dnepr" launch vehicle.