Agile Development of Small Satellite's Attitude Determination and Control System

With the advanced development and maturing of small satellite technologies, there is a high commercial demand for low-cost small satellites with fast delivery for a multitude of applications. This paper presents a hardware-in-the-loop system for testing the satellite's attitude determination and control system and the Agile framework from software engineering practices to guide resource-effective end-to-end development processes, while maintaining a comprehensive system validation. Experimental results for design verification of satellite's Attitude Determination and Control Systems (ADCS) using our ongoing concurrent multiple satellite programs are presented.