Chinese Space Science and Technology ›› 2019, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (4): 28-.doi: 10.16708/j.cnki.1000-758X.2019.0026

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Preliminary design and test of attitude control system for lunar CubeSats

 YANG  Chi-Hang, LIU  Jiang-Kai, LONG  Long- , SONG  Huan, LI  Long, ZHU  Ling-Chao, YE  Bing-Xu, CHEN  Hong-Ru, ZHANG  Hao   

  1. 1.Key Laboratory of Space Utilization,Chinese Academy of Sciences; Technology and Engineer Center for Space Utilization,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100094,China
    2.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049, China
    3.School of Astronautics,Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi′an 710072,China
  • Received:2018-11-07 Revised:2018-12-27 Published:2019-08-25 Online:2019-04-22

Abstract: CubeSats are miniature functional satellites The increasing interest in CubeSats has uncovered the potential for planetary missions Besides, CubeSats is an excellent educational platform. The preliminary attitude control system is designed and the corresponding hardware is built using commercial products for a lunar mission employing a CubeSat constellation to provide positioning service for landers/rovers on the far side of the moon At the same time, the basic frame and necessary subsystems including the structure, power and onboard computer subsystems, and the attitude experiment platform are constructed Based on the hardware platform, the control model is deeply understood through measuring damping coefficients by experiments A PD control method is designed to control the attitude The numerical and physical simulation results match well, and the CubeSat system achieves accurate attitude maneuver.

Key words: university CubeSats, CubeSats in deep space, system design, attitude control, CubeSats hardware system