Development of CubeSat Vibration Testing Capabilities for the Naval Postgraduate School and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

<p>The Naval Postgraduate School is currently developing their first CubeSat, the Solar Cell Array Tester CubeSat, or NPS-SCAT. Launching a CubeSat, such as NPS-SCAT, requires environmental testing to ensure not only the success of the mission, but also the safety of other CubeSats housed in the same deployer. This thesis will address the development of CubeSat vibration testing methodology at NPS, including subsystem testing, engineering unit qualification, and flight unit testing. In addition, the new Cal Poly CubeSat Test POD Mk III will be introduced and evaluated based upon comparison with the Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD). Using examples from the development of NPS-SCAT and test data from Cal Poly’s Test POD Mk III and P-POD, the current CubeSat testing methodology will be verified and an improved method for NPS CubeSat subsystem testing will be presented. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MS in Aerospace Engineering

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Aerospace Engineering

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• Brummitt, Marissa

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jordi Puig-Suari

• CubeSat
• Vibration Testing
• NPS-SCAT
• P-POD
• Test POD Mk III
• Systems Engineering and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

Identifier

10.15368/theses.2010.207

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.calpoly.edu:theses-1491