Seventh QB50 Workshop
28-29 January 2014
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode-St-Genèse, Belgium
28th January 2014
08:15 Bus Departure from Wolstraat / Rue aux Laines in Brussels
(on the side of the Justice Palace)
09:00 – 09:45 Registration + Coffee
10:00 – 10:30 Presentation of the Launch Contract [VKI and Alcantara Cyclone Space]
10:30 – 12:45 Demonstration on the UKube-1 [R. Sampson, S, Greenland (ClydeSpace)]
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:00 Welcome to 7th QB50 Workshop [Jan Thoemel (VKI)]
- Logistics
- Agenda
14:00 – 14:15 QB50 Project Status [Jean Muylaert (VKI)]
- QB50 Project status
- Latest meetings with REA
14:15 – 15:15 Cluster Launch [V. Solovey (Alcantara Cyclone Space)]
- Experiences of and Advices for Cluster Launches
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:15 Information on QB50 CubeSat Teams [D. Masutti (VKI)]
- List of CubeSat teams
- Common problems and achievements
- IODs and Sensor Sets
- Other statistics (SSC ADCS, Freq alloc, contract signature, EPFL SCS, GAMAnet etc)
16:15 – 16:30 CubeSat CDR Progress [J. Thoemel (VKI)]
- Procedures
- Most common RIDs
- Statistics of CDR results
- Expectations
16:30 – 17:00 System Requirements [F. Singarayar (VKI)]
- Changes / updates from Issue 4
- Most common compliancy problems
17:00 – 17:30 QB50 Precursor Flight [J. Elstak (ISIS)]
- Configuration & CubeSats
- Launch environment and conditions
- Lessons learned and to be learned
17:30 – 19:00 Reception
19:15 Bus Departure to Wolstraat / Rue aux Laines in Brussels
29th January 2014
08:15 Bus Departure from Wolstraat / Rue aux Laines in Brussels
(on the side of the Justice Palace)
09:00– 09:30 QB50 Launch Vehicle Accommodation and Deployment Systems [C. Bernal (ISIS)]
- QuadPack Design and Development info
- QB50 Deployment System Design
- DS-CubeSat Interface and the updated ICD
09:30 – 10:00 Surrey ADCS [L. Visagie, V. Lappas (SSC)]
- Surrey ADCS Design
- Surrey ADCS interface specification and the updated ICD
- Availability of the Surrey ADCS to QB50 teams
10:00 – 10:30 Ground Station Network / Satellite Control Software
[T. Scholz, S. Billeter (VKI and EPFL)]
- Ground station network status
- SCS specification
- How to get access to it
- QB50 Ground Stations, global view
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00– 11:30 Procedures for CubeSat Environmental Testing [J. Rotteveel (ISIS)]
- Conditions
- Necessary tests
- Recommended tests
11:30– 11:45 Upcoming Events [D. Masutti (VKI)]
- 4S Symposium
- European CS Symposium
- 8th QB50 Workshop
11:45 – 12:00 Concluding Remarks [J. Muylaert (VKI)]
12:00 – 13:00 Science Units [B. Taylor, T. Schmiel, T. A. Bekkeng (MSSL, TU Dresden, UiO)]
- Schedule, Integration and testing procedures (for all units)
- INMS Design
- INMS interface specification and the updated ICD
- FIPEX Design
- FIPEX interface specification and the updated ICD
- mNLP Design
- mNLP interface specification and the updated ICD
(the three sessions will be running in parallel)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch – VKI Sports Centre
14:00 – 16:30 Demonstration and Lessons learned from 2013 launches of Delfi-n3Xt, FUNcube-1 and TRITON-1 by ISIS Launch Services [ISIS]
14:00 – 16:30 Splinter Session: GAMANET (running in parallel)