CHUBUSAT SERIES

Student: Prerana Sen

Module: Designing the Systems & Communication Satellites

Course Title / Code: Satellite Communication (17EC755)

Date Due: 23 Nov 2020

INTRODUCTION
ChubuSat is a series of 50-kg class small satellite mutually advanced through a consortium of
universities and aerospace companies in the Chubu vicinity of central Japan that's the center vicinity

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of Japan's aerospace industries. ChubuSat-1 is evolved to amplify the satellite commercial enterprise
through appreciably decreasing the fee of space utilizations and applications, and additionally to
display the advanced technology level of the small aerospace organizations on this vicinity. The
satellite is named"ChubuSat-1" with the nickname of "Kin-Shachi 1st" to sell the Chubu vicinity
because of the center of Japan's aerospace industries. (“Kin-Shachi” means golden grampus that's the
roof monument of Nagoya Castle, the symbol of Chuburegion.)ChubuSat as an optical camera and an
infrared digicam to examine the earth's surface. The resolution of the optical camera is about 10 m.
The infrared camera is touchy in the wavelength from 7.five to 13.five microns and enables the
statement of the ground temperature profile. Chubusat additionally plans to look at area particles the
usage of the infrared camera. When a predominant disaster occurs, ChubuSat may offer images and
temperature profiles of inaccessible areas to assist determine what's occurring in the ones areas.
ChubuSat can even offer the global message relay carrier the usage of the onboard transceiver of
novice radio band.

1.1 Chubusat 1

Nagoya University, Daido University, and MASTT (Meiyu Aerospace Support Technology
Team), collaborative aerospace companies in the Chubu region of Japan, organized the ChubuSat-1
project team (or ChubuSat consortium). In this setup, Nagoya and Daido Universities are in charge of
the ChubuSat-1 satellite system design, procurement of satellite components, satellite assembly,
system testing and evaluation. Nagoya University also takes charge of the construction of the ground
station systems and processing and evaluation of the observed imagery. MASTT is in charge of
manufacturing most of the satellite mechanical or electrical parts, except for the purchased
components.

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 Figure 1: Overview of Chubusat-1

Satellite:
The microsatellite is almost a cube of size: 58 cm x 55 cm x 50 cm and a mass of ~ 50 kg. The design
life is 6 months.
Structure:
The ChubuSat-1 layout employs a standardized, modularized, general-purpose and versatile satellite
system architecture. The main structure consists of sandwich panels of aluminum skin and aluminum
honeycomb core that has light mass and high stiffness. The sunshine panels, whose total mass is < ten
kg, meet each of the stiffness needs from the rocket and also the mass demand from the system
design. The structure of ChubuSat-1 has been developed from the STM (Structural and Thermal test
Model) which was tested by a modal survey and vibration test with qualification test level of the
Dnepr launch vehicle.
TCS (Thermal Control Subsystem): TCS is primarily based totally on passive manipulation the usage
of MLI (Multilayer Insulation) and radiation movie of silver Teflon. Use of warmers and temperature
sensors.
ADCS (Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem): The spacecraft is three-axis stabilized using
the zero-momentum bias technique. The mind-set is sensed with a star sensor, solar sensors, and a
three-axis magnetometer, three FOG (Fiber Optical Gyroscopes) provide the rate information.
Actuation is furnished by response wheels and magnetic torquers. During the initial phase after
deployment from the release vehicle, or during a safe-keep segment, two-axis solar-pointing mind-set
manipulation is used. The magnetic torquers are used for unloading of wheels and for the rate
dumping of the separation tumbling motion.

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 Figure 2: Illustration of the ChubuSat-1 microsatellite
The implementation of attitude control processing functions by the OBC software are Rate
control, Sun-pointing 2-axis control, 3-axis control to a commanded quaternion, Attitude maneuver
path generation, Wheel unloading, Attitude FDIR (Failure Detection, Isolation, and Recovery ).
The ADCS pointing requirements call for a 3-axis pointing accuracy of < 0.8o and for a 2-axis sun
pointing accuracy of < 5o.

Figure 3: Block diagram of the ChubuSat-1 microsatellite (image credit: ChubuSat

consortium)

EPS (Electrical Power Subsystem):The EPS consists of a PCU (Power Control Unit), a NiMH
secondary battery, and three solar array panels.

Launch:The ChubuSat-1 microsatellite was launched as a secondary payload on November 6, 2014

(07:35:forty nine UTC) on a Dnepr-1 car from the Yasny Cosmodrome, Russia. The number one
payload in this flight became the ASNARO minisatellite of USEF, Japan. The launch company was
ISC Kosmotras. The launch was done by the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Ministry
of Defense with the assistance of the Russian, Ukrainian, and Kazakhstan organizations, which are
part of the ISC Kosmotras industrial team.

1.2 ChubuSat- 2

The primary mission of ChubuSat-2 is to support ASTRO-H celestial observations by monitoring

radiations which can be background noise for onboard instruments of ASTRO-H in the same orbit and
epoch as ASTRO-H. A message exchange service can be made publicly available to world-wide ham
fans via an amateur radio system onboard ChubuSat-2.
The mission also involves a function of solar neutron observations which were originally proposed by
graduate students.
Radiation Detector (RD): It can observe neutrons and gamma-rays in radiations. The semiconductor
photo-sensor MPPCs and GAGG scintillators are used in space for the first time.

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Infrared Camera: It provides ancillary data to RD.Solar-oriented control by sensing with a sun sensor,
a geomagnetic sensor, and a gyro, and utilizing actuators a reaction wheel and three-axis magnetic
torque. Power is generated through solar cells and power supply by nickel-hydrogen storage cell.

ChubuSat-2 carries amateur radio and S-band antenna, and the amateur radio band will be open to the
public in the nominal operation. ChubuSat-2 provides message exchange services.

PICTURES OF CHUBUSAT 2:

Launch details : 2016 February 17 - . 08:45 GMT - . Launch Site: Tanegashima. LV Family: H-2.
Launch Vehicle: H-IIA 202. USAF Sat Cat: 41338 . COSPAR: 2016-012B. Apogee: 579 km (359
mi). Perigee: 559 km (347 mi). Inclination: 31.00 deg.

1.3 ChubuSat-3

ChubuSat-3 is the 50kg-class microsatellite. In 2014, ChubuSat-3 was selected as one of the piggy-
back payloads of H-IIA launch vehicle.The primary mission of ChubuSat-3 is to observe the situation
of global warming such as reduction of the glacier or retreat of the shoreline. For this mission,
ChubuSat-3 has a high resolution camera. Furthermore, we will try to observe space debris with the
camera as the extra mission.
Attitude Control System
3-axis control with sun sensor, magnetic sensor, gyro, reaction wheel and magnetic torquer.
Power System
Solar cell with light weight and high efficiency, and NiMH battery.
Communication System
S-band for uplink/downlink, amateur VHF for uplink, and amateur UHF for downlink.

Pictures of ChubuSat-3

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TABLES AND CHARTS

Table 1. Specification of ChubuSat -1 optical/infrared

ChubuSat-1 functions an optical and an infrared camera to examine Earth's surface. The
decision of the optical camera is ~10 m. The infrared camera is touchy withinside the
wavelength place of 7.five-13.five µm and allows observations of the ground temperature
profile. The project additionally has observed area debris using the infrared camera.

Table 2. Specification of ChubuSat-1 OBC

The ChubuSat-1 OBC has two core modules and three extended interface modules.
It should be noted that a SOI-SOC (Silicon On Insulator, System On Chip) chip is part of the
core module; it reduces power consumption, and endures a high temperature and a high
radiation environment

Table 3. Specification of ChubuSat -1 Power Control System

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Table 4. Specification of ChubuSat-1 attitude control subsystem

Table 5. Specification of ChubuSat - 2

Table 6. Improvements of ChubuSat with respect to ChubuSat-1

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Table 7. Specifications of the radiation detector.

REFERENCE
● DEVELOPMENT OF CHUBUSAT-1 SMALL SATELLITE, Yasutaka NARUSAWA,
Hiroyasu TAJIMA, Masanobu MIZOGUCHI,Isao MATSUBARA, Hirotaka KOSAKA-
Nagoya University, Daido University, HIKARI Manufacture Co. Ltd, KOSAKA Co.Ltd,
Japan.
● Development of the Solar Neutron Monitor on the Chubusat-2 Satellite, Kazutaka
Yamaoka, Takuya Miyazawa, Shinji Oseki, Yasunobu Babazaki-Nagoya University,
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Clear Pulse Co., Ltd., Ohta-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
● Yamaoka, K. et al. 2016, Trans. JSASS Aerospace Tech-Japan.
● Muraki, Y. et al. 2012, Advances in Astronomy, 2012.