By Simone D'Amico Jan 11, 2022
I am happy to report that we have held the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the NSF-funded Space Weather Atmospheric Reconfigurable Multiscale Experiment (SWARM-EX) mission. SWARM-EX is a nanosatellite swarm consisting of three 3U CubeSats to synthesize a distributed aeronomy and space weather sensor. The scientific focus of SWARM-EX is to study the spatial and temporal variability of ion-neutral interactions in the equatorial Ionosphere-Thermosphere region.
The Space Rendezvous Laboratory is responsible for the Orbit Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) subsystem which aims at unprecedented autonomous swarming capabilities with separations from 3km to 1300km using hybrid propulsive and differential drag control means. More details here:
Agarwal, R., Oh, B., Fitzpatrick, D., Buynovskiy, A., Lowe, S., Lisy, C., Kriezis, A., Lan, B., Lee, Z., Thomas, A., Wallace, B., Costantino, E., Miner, G., Thayer, J., D’Amico, S., Lemmer, K., Lohmeyer, W., Palo, S.; Coordinating Development of the SWARM-EX CubeSat Swarm Across Multiple Institutions; 35th Annual Conference on Small Satellites, Utah State University, August 7-12 (2021).
Congratulations to the whole multi-university SWARM-EX team.
Simone D'Amico is the founder and director of SLAB
