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Mission Test Campaign for the EIRSAT-1 Engineering Qualification Model

Maeve Doyle    
Rachel Dunwoody    
Gabriel Finneran    
David Murphy    
Jack Reilly    
Joseph Thompson    
Sai Krishna Reddy Akarapu    
Joseph Mangan    
Sarah Walsh    
Jessica Erkal    
Fergal Marshall    
Lána Salmon    
Eoghan Somers    
Lily Ha    
David Palma    
Antonio Martin-Carrillo    
Sheila McBreen    
David McKeown    
William O?Connor    
Brian Shortt    
Alexey Uliyanov    
Ronan Wall and Lorraine HanlonaddShow full author listremoveHide full author list    

Resumen

The compact, standardised form factor of CubeSats allows for the use of commercial off-the-shelf components, reducing traditional barriers to entry, such as cost and development time. More than 1500 of these small spacecraft have been launched in the past 20 years, with improving capabilities that enable a wide range of mission profiles. The Educational Irish Research Satellite, EIRSAT-1, is a CubeSat being developed by a student-led team with goals that span education, technology demonstration and science. A comprehensive mission test plan, in which in-flight conditions are simulated, has been developed for EIRSAT-1 and implemented using an engineering qualification model of the spacecraft. In addition to verifying 41 mission requirements, the successful execution of the mission test plan established that the full satellite system can perform the intended mission. Mission testing also proved to be an invaluable tool to prepare for launch and operations, providing the team with a more complete understanding of the satellite?s expected on-orbit behaviour. This work presents a detailed description of the mission test planning process and implementation, as well as key results and lessons learned. In doing so, this work aims to improve the on-orbit reliability of CubeSats by disseminating resources and good practice around mission testing.

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