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Petite Amateur Navy Satellite |
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Development: Spacecraft Configuration and Design |
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PANSAT has a robust structural design with high margins of safety and is adaptable to a number of launch vehicles. The satellite is approximately 19 inches in diameter and has no attitude control or propulsion. Eighteen square and eight triangular aluminum panels make up the outer surface of the satellite. Seventeen of the square panels are equipped with solar panels and four dipole antennas are attached in a tangential turnstile configuration to the trianguular plates. The spacecraft structure is composed of two equipment plates, solar panels, and a cylindrical support. The three main spacecraft subsystems are the electrical power subsystem (EPS), digital control subsystem (DCS), and the communications payload | ||
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