Satellite platform SXC6 modification “RS”
SPUTNIX
The maximum-capability 6U CubeSat platform configuration of the SXC6 family, fully equipped for remote sensing, astronomical observation, and high-speed X-band downlink.
Technical specifications
- Outer dimensions transport mode
- 118.6x228.6x366 mm
- Outer dimensions deployed
- 118.6x228.6x820 mm
- Mass (w/o payload)
- 5.9 kg
- Maximum mass
- 12 kg
- Battery capacity
- 78 Wh
- Peak power per solar panel
- not less than 35 W
- ADCS algorithms
- B-DOT, sun orientation, nadir, point trace
- Sensors
- Star tracker, Sun sensors, GPS, Angular velocity sensor, Magnetometer
- ADCS pointing accuracy sunlit orbit
- up to 0.1 deg
- ADCS pointing stability sunlit orbit
- up to 0.01 deg
- Payload volume
- 3U
- High frequency downlink frequency range
- 10.45-10.50 or 8.15-8.22 GHz
- Output power
- not less than 30 dBm
- Data rate downlink
- 10 Mbit/s
- Modulation
- QPSK, 8PSK, 16APSK
- Protocol
- DVB-S2 - ETSI EN 302 307-1 v1.4.1
About
The SXC6-RS modification is the maximum platform configuration, for medium/high-resolution remote sensing and astronomical observation. Includes redundant power supply with battery and deployable solar panels, redundant UHF transceiver, redundant electromagnetic damping system, redundant ADCS control unit with sensors, partially redundant reaction wheels unit, solar sensors, a star tracker, redundant GNSS receiver with patch antennas, an increased-accuracy remote sensor unit for ADCS, and a high-speed X-band transmitter with patch antenna.
Documentation
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