RT Journal Article
T1 The AlfaCrux CubeSat mission description and early results
A1 Borges, Renato Alves
A1 dos Santos, Andrea Cristina
A1 Silva, William Reis
A1 Aguayo, Leonardo
A1 Borges, Geovany Araújo
A1 Karam, Marcelo Monte
A1 de Sousa, Rogério Baptista
A1 Fernández-Arruti García, Bibiano
A1 Botelho, Vitor Manuel de Sousa
A1 Fernández Carrillo, José Manuel
A1 Lago Agra, José Miguel
A1 Aguado Agelet, Fernando Antonio
A1 Borges, João Vítor Quintiliano Silvério
A1 de Oliveira, Alexandre Crepory Abbott
A1 de Mello, Bruno Tunes
A1 Avelino, Yasmin da Costa Ferreira
A1 Modesto, Vinícius Fraga
A1 Brenag, Emanuel Couto
K1 3325.06 Comunicaciones Por Satélite
K1 3324.01 Satélites Artificiales
K1 3325 Tecnología de las Telecomunicaciones
AB On 1 April 2022, the AlfaCrux CubeSat was launched by the Falcon 9 Transporter-4 mission, the fourth SpaceX dedicated smallsat rideshare program mission, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida into a Sun-synchronous orbit at 500 km. AlfaCrux is an amateur radio and educational mission to provide learning and scientific benefits in the context of small satellite missions. It is an opportunity for theoretical and practical learning about the technical management, systems design, communication, orbital mechanics, development, integration, and operation of small satellites. The AlfaCrux payload, a software-defined radio hardware, is responsible for two main services, which are a digital packet repeater and a store-and-forward system. In the ground segment, a cloud-computing-based command and control station has been developed, together with an open access online platform to access and visualize the main information of the AlfaCrux telemetry and user data and experiments. It also becomes an in-orbit database reference to be used for different studies concerned with, for instance, radio propagation, attitude reconstruction, data-driven calibration algorithms for satellite sensors, among others. In this context, this paper describes the AlfaCrux mission, its main subsystems, and the achievements obtained in the early orbit phase. Scientific and engineering assessments conducted with the spacecraft operations to tackle unexpected behaviors in the ground station and also to better understand the space environment are also presented and discussed.
PB Applied Sciences
SN 20763417
YR 2022
FD 2022-09-28
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/3910
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/3910
LA eng
NO Applied Sciences, 12(19): 9764 (2022)
NO Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa del Distrito Federal (FAPDF), Brasil | Ref. N/A
DS Investigo
RD 12-may-2025