1. Nanosatellite Industry Overview October 2013 Update1

2. Content of the Presentation Introduction Trends and Hot Topics Myths Vs. Facts2 3. Cut to the Chase COTS in LEO has proven to be eminently capable yet end-users exhibit strong reluctance to use it. Community has not learned the lesson of PC vs. Mac Perfect is the enemy of Good Enough If you aim for perfect in nanosats, you will miss the cost-effective solution Like PCs, CubeSats are disposable Andrew E. Kalman, President & CTO, Pumpkin, Inc. Director, SSDL, Stanford University, July 20123 4. Introduction (1) Satellites are categorized by their weight according to the following key: Less than 1 kg: Pico satellite Less than 10 kg: Nano satellite Less than 100 kg: Micro satellite Recently NASA AMES changed the scale Less than 5kg: Pico satellite Less than 50kg: Nano satellite Less than 200 kg: Micro satellite Credit: NASA 4 5. Introduction (2) Nanosatellite Market growing rapidly Cubesats: Conception in 2000 First missions launched in 2003 10-20 projects in 2004 >250 projects ongoing now (estimate) Change of users from educational and institutional to application focused5 6. Nano/Micro satellite Future programs6Credit: SpaceWorks Nano/Microsatellite Market Assesment 7. Analysis per sector7 8. CubeSatShop The AMAZON of the Industry8 9. Getting to space9 10. Or like this10 11. Trends and Hot Topics 12. CubeSat Generations 1st : Modern Sputniks 2nd : Utility of the 3U is demonstrated 3rd : More power, attitude control & determination, propulsion 4th : Constellations 5th : AI collaborative entities12 13. Trends / Hot Topics 13Earth Imaging Space Weather (Android) PhoneSats More & Better Power Faster Comms AIS/ADS-B Propulsion at Last! 14. Enabling Technologies: Communication Biggest bottleneck perceived /bit is metric to be optimized for effective systems Current downlinks fairly slow S-Band emerging for payloads Up to 1-5 being deployed and used Up to 22 Mbps offered by L-322Mbps S-band transmitter Move to X-Band and beyond before 2015? More powerful platform can support these higher data rate systems 148 dBi S-band Patch antenna 15. Transceivers for Cubesats15 16. X-band 50Mbps transmitter16 17. Miniature Deployable High Gain Antenna - Boeing17 18. Miniature Deployable High Gain Antenna - Boeing18 19. Why deploy if you can. Inflate ?19Credit: MIT 20. Patch Antennas20 21. SMDC-ONE21 22. Ka !! The ISARA Project (NASA) 100 Mbps communication in Ka 35 db antenna gain Unique PopUp Feed22 23. Optical Communication ?23 24. AeroCube-OCSD: 1.5U Optical communication24 25. Enabling Technologies: ADCS New generation of ADCS products enables better performance Heritage: Magnetic determination & control Now: 25Magnetic, Star tracker determination Earth horizon sensors, gyros also available Magnetorquer, reaction wheels Integrated ADCS packages incl CPU 26. Focus on ADCS iADCS-100 from BST26Main sensor: STR Main actuators: RW Accuracy: