FIREBIRD and SSEL Space Weather Missions

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1 Space Science and Engineering Laboratory FIREBIRD and SSEL Space Weather Missions Ehson Mosleh Systems Engineer Space Science and Engineering Laboratory Montana State University CubeSat Developers Workshop April 20, 2011

2 Current SSEL Programs Solar Physics Space Weather

3 SSEL Activities w/o Powerpoint SmartArt Graphics Explorer 1 Prime Primarily a Student Education Mission. Also a Space Weather mission looking at energetic particles in the Van Allen Belts. Set to Launch on Oct. 25, 2011.

4 SSEL Activities w/o Powerpoint SmartArt Graphics Explorer 1 Prime RAMPARTS Primarily a Student Education Mission. Also a Space Weather mission looking at energetic particles in the Van Allen Belts. Delivering a energetic particle detector. 2U CubeSat with a consortium of industry and academia. Set to Launch on Oct. 25, 2011.

5 SSEL Activities w/o Powerpoint SmartArt Graphics Explorer 1 Prime RAMPARTS Primarily a Student Education Mission. Also a Space Weather mission looking at energetic particles in the Van Allen Belts. Delivering a energetic particle detector. 2U CubeSat with a consortium of industry and academia. Set to Launch on Oct. 25, FIREBIRD Primarily a Science Mission looking at Relativistic Electron Microburts. Two 1.5U Cubesats for the NSF Program Ready by Q3 CY 2012

6 SSEL Activities w/o Powerpoint SmartArt Graphics Explorer 1 Prime RAMPARTS Primarily a Student Education Mission. Also a Space Weather mission looking at energetic particles in the Van Allen Belts. Delivering a energetic particle detector. 2U CubeSat with a consortium of industry and academia. Set to Launch on Oct. 25, FIREBIRD Primarily a Science Mission looking at Relativistic Electron Microburts. Two 1.5U Cubesats for the NSF Program Ready by Q3 CY 2012 SpaceBuoy ARFL Univ Nanosat Entry as 3UCubesat UV Photometer Payload and Radio Occultation Experiments. Looking to improve ionospheric forecasting.

7 Explorer 1 Prime and MEROPE Explorer 1 Launches as first US satellite and discovers the Earth s radiation belts 1958

8 Explorer 1 Prime and MEROPE MEROPE was launched in 2006 on a DNEPR from Kazakastan. CraterSynchronous Orbit

9 Explorer 1 Prime and MEROPE MEROPE was launched in 2006 on a DNEPR from Kazakastan. CraterSynchronous Orbit E1P was launched on March 4, 2011 on a Taurus XL for the ELaNa 1 Mission. AquaSynchronous Orbit

10 E1P Flight Unit 2 (E1P-FU2) Manifested on the ELaNa 3 Mission. October 25, 2011 with NPP as the Primary on a Delta II Vandenberg Air Force Base Delivery of the unit July 25, 2011 Currently undergoing full integration testing.

11 FIREBIRD Focused Investigation of Relativistic Electron Burst, Intensity, Range, and Dynamics (FIREBIRD) Funded by the National Science Foundation Participating Institutions SSEL Montana State University University of New Hampshire Los Alamos National Laboratories The Aerospace Corporation Fly two 1.5kg (1.5U) cubesat spacecraft to assess the spatial scale and spatial/temporal ambiguity of magnetospheric relativistic electron microbursts: 1) What is the spatial scale size of an individual burst? 2) What is the energy dependence of an individual burst? 3) How much total electron loss do bursts produce globally?

12 FIREBIRD Science > 1 MeV electrons Microbursts are short (<100ms) bursts of electron precipitation from the radiation belts Initial work started in the 1960s from balloon measurements Studied sporadically since then (e.g. Aerospace and others) Lorentzen, et al GRL 2001 Primary form of electron loss on the dayside?

13 FIREBIRD Payload GOES-R Flight Spares UNH is developing energetic particle sensor for the NOAA GOES-R mission (Lopate, Connell, McKibben) Nearly identical package with footprint that fits onto FIRE boards Project design changed during development rendering detectors obsolete for project Flight quality detectors in sufficient number in bonded storage in UNH clean room UNH (through ATK) requests release of detectors from NOAA to UNH for use by NSF on FIREBIRD (Agency to agency transfer)

14 FIREBIRD Bus GPS/Payload interface Board Novatel OEMV-1 GPS AstroDev Helium Radio Tiger EPS Pumpkin CDH

15 Tiger Innovations EPS SA Inputs Battery Shunt Power Size Mass Output Voltages 4 Independent Peak Power Trackers with 2.5A max per channel Li-Ion1.8 A-hr 4.2 V Cells (x2) Dissipates Excess Array Pwr < 50 mw quiescent draw 96 x 90 x 20 mm (w/battery) 167 g (w/battery) 8.4 V (2 switchable channels) (Unregulated Bus Voltage) 5 2 A A

16 Flight Software Test Bed In Development with Advanced Solutions Inc. and The SI Organizations. Ready end of June FSW Test Bed Demo with Hardware at the Summer Workshop and SmallSat Conference 2011.

17 SpaceBuoy 3U CubeSat for the AFRL University Nanosat 7 competition Payloads Bus UV Photometer for Electron Density Profile and TEC Radio Occultation for line of sight and slant TEC Same Avionics package as FIREBIRD Same Software plus added ADACS and Payload modules Two different modes of operation for ADACS to enhance future science payload accommodations Processing of data into the GAIM Forecasting model currently used by AFWA.

18 6U Designs

19 Sponsors and Partners Tiger Innovations NSF Advanced Solutions Inc. (ASI) UNH The SI Organization LANL

20 Questions? For more information contact: Dr. David Klumpar Research Professor of Physics Director, Space Science and Engineering Laboratory Associate Director for Student Flight Projects, Montana Space Grant Consortium P.O. Box Montana State University Bozeman, MT Office: (406) Mobile: (406) Fax: (406) Visit us online at: