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    This document proposes designing an affordable planar air bearing satellite simulator at UNSW to investigate on-orbit assembly, servicing, and formation flying of satellites in microgravity conditions at an appropriate scale for CubeSats. It would have an area of 1.5m x 2m, be manufactured in-house using glass as a guide surface and consumer electronics, and utilize DIY reaction wheels. New Way Air Bearings that use graphite surfaces and airflow would provide the microgravity simulation at a fly height of 5 microns for an initial cost of $1,070.

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    This document proposes designing an affordable planar air bearing satellite simulator at UNSW to investigate on-orbit assembly, servicing, and formation flying of satellites in microgravity conditions at an appropriate scale for CubeSats. It would have an area of 1.5m x 2m, be manufactured in-house using glass as a guide surface and consumer electronics, and utilize DIY reaction wheels. New Way Air Bearings that use graphite surfaces and airflow would provide the microgravity simulation at a fly height of 5 microns for an initial cost of $1,070.

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    This document proposes designing an affordable planar air bearing satellite simulator at UNSW to investigate on-orbit assembly, servicing, and formation flying of satellites in microgravity conditions at an appropriate scale for CubeSats. It would have an area of 1.5m x 2m, be manufactured in-house using glass as a guide surface and consumer electronics, and utilize DIY reaction wheels. New Way Air Bearings that use graphite surfaces and airflow would provide the microgravity simulation at a fly height of 5 microns for an initial cost of $1,070.

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    AN AIR

    BEARING
    SATELLITE SIMULATOR
    FOR UNSW

    James Bultitude
    z3285865
    Academic: Dr. Nathan Kinkadid

    SATELITTE
    ATTITUDE
    DETERMINATION
    CONTROL
    SYSTEM

    https://eodisp-prod.netcetera.ch/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/p/pace

    HOW DO WE
    SIMULATE THE
    MICRO
    GRAVITY
    CONDITION?

    http://monakhova.weebly.com/satellite-servicing-robotics.html

    Design an affordable,
    reconfigurable planar air bearing
    satellite simulator for use at
    UNSW.
    It should be capable of
    investigating the on-orbit
    assembly, servicing and formation
    flying of satellites in the micro

    HOW DO WE
    DO IT FOR
    CHEAP?

    1.5m x 2m Area
    Test at an appropriate scale for
    CubeSat's and similar
    Manufacture in house
    Use glass as a guide surface
    Utilise consumer electronics
    Design and build DIY Reaction
    wheel etc

    THE RIG

    New Way Air Bearings


    25 mm Pourous Air Bearings
    More than 10,000,000 sub
    micron pores on the graphite
    surface allow airflow.
    60 psi out
    Ideal Load 80N
    Fly height 5 microns

    HTTP://WWW.DIRECTINDUSTRY.COM/PROD/NEW-WAY-AIR-BEARINGS/AIR-BEARINGS-55028-360491.HTM

    INITIAL COST
    KEPT TO
    $1,070

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