The document summarizes a presentation about a CubeSat deployer developed by JSC Space Rocket Center Progress. The deployer is a modular design that can accommodate 1U, 1.5U, 2U, 3U, and 3U+ CubeSats. Simulation results showed the deployer can separate CubeSats at 0.5-0.8 m/s with low angular velocities below 15 degrees/second for 1U and 5 degrees/second for 3U CubeSats. The deployer is planned for its first launch in December 2015 carrying a 3U CubeSat along with other payloads.

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JSC Space Rocket Center Progress
Universal 1U-3U+ CubeSat Deployer
Dmitriy Zaretskiy , Eugeni Kosmodemyanskii, Aleksandr Romanov, Maxim Sivov , Maxim Trusov, Vadim Yudintsev
http://www.samspace.ru

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Outline
 Historical Background
 Mechanical design
 Separation dynamics
 Installation
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3. About Space Rocket Center Progress
Historical Background

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Historical Background
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1941-19451910 2010
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1896 2010

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Launch service
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Pleyades (ESA) Gaia (ESA)Resurs-P (Russia)Mars-Express (ESA)
Over 1800 manned
and unmanned
launches of the
Soyuz rocket since
1967
More than 90
launches of
spacecraft were
performed since
1999 under the
agreement with
foreign customers.Obzor-R (Russia) 2015

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Bion-M with piggyback satellites
 Bion-M is a large spacecraft for
research in the field of space
biology and medicine.
 Launch of Bion-M № 1 was
performed in 2013.
 Aist spacecraft and five foreign
small satellites of CubeSat type
were used as a piggyback
payload.
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Image source: http://samspace.ru/multimedia/images/selected_images/142/

7. Mechanical design
CubeSat Deployer

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 Multi-interface (satellites or
orbital stages)
 Reliable and proven
components
 Experimental validation
 No debris
Design Principles
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Modular design
 Door module
 Hinges, latches, hold down and
release mechanism
 Base module
 Guide rails
 Separation spring module
 Separation spring, platform
with guide rails
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Multi-format
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1U 2U 3U, 3U+
 Modular design allows to
build deployers for various
CubeSat form-factors
 Set of separation springs is
developed to separate
satellites at a speed from 0.5
to 0.8 m/s

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Sensors
 The separation sensor detects
the separation of the CubeSat
from the platform
 The temperature sensor
measures the temperature inside
the base module. All the surfaces
of the deployer are wrapped by a
multi-layer Insulation
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CubeSat Requirements
 Form factors:
 1U, 1.5U
 2U
 3U, 3U+
 Standard CubeSat
requirements*
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*Munakata, Riki. "Cubesat design specification rev. 13." The CubeSat Program, California Polytechnic State University 1 (2009).

13. Separation dynamics

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Separation dynamics
 Separation speed
0.5 … 0.8 m/s
 Angular velocity
1U CubeSats: < 15 °/s
3U CubeSats: < 5 °/s
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Angular velocity of 1U CubeSat
Angular velocity of 1U CubeSat
for different COG offset and δ =0.5 mm
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Angular velocity of 3U CubeSat
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Angular velocity of 3U CubeSat
for different COG offset and δ =0.5 mm

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3-Unit Deployer Simulation
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18. Installation

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Transfer compartment
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Image source: R.N. Akhmetov et al. Low-cost launch services for micro satellites by means of utilization
of Soyuz orbital stage Small Satell. Earth Obs. Dig. 7-th Int. Symp. Int. Acad. Astronaut. Berlin, 2009.

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Transfer compartment
 H≈250-300 km
 The orbital stage is rotated by
gas engine after the separation
of the main payload
 The attitude motion of the
orbital stage will affect to the
motion of the separated
CubeSats
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Satellites
 Bion-M / Foton-M
satellites
 Circular orbit
H = 500 – 600 km
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Platform for external equipment

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 H=1000 km, i = 62.8°
 H=1500 km, i = 82.4°
 H=835 km, i = 98.7° (SSO)
“Volga” upper stage
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Image source: http://samspace.ru/multimedia/images/selected_images/103/

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 Main payloads
Aist-2, Lomonosov
 Additional payload
3U CubeSat SamSat-218/D
 Planned start date
December 2015
 Space-launch complex
Vostochny
The First Launch
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 Modular multiformat design: 1U, 1.5U, 2U, 3U, 3U+
 Low angular velocities of separated satellites
 High reliability p>0,999
 Temperature sensor
 Separation sensor
 Passive thermal control system
 Adaptation to the SRC space vehicles
Key features of the Deployer
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Vadim Yudintsev, Dmitriy Zaretskiy, Eugeni Kosmodemyanskii , Oksana Vagner,
Aleksandr Romanov, Maxim Sivov, Maxim Trusov
The CubeSat deployer developer team

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Contacts
JSC SRC «Progress»,
18, Zemetsa str., Samara, Russia
Phone: +7 (846) 955-13-61
Fax: +7 (846) 992-65-18
e-mail: ved878@samspace.ru
http://www.samspace.ru