TY - GEN
T1 - Development and Demonstration of the Mission Control System for Artificial Meteor Generating Micro-satellites
AU - Shibuya, Yoshihiko
AU - Sato, Yuji
AU - Tomio, Hannah
AU - Kuwahara, Toshinori
AU - Fujita, Shinya
AU - Kamachi, Koh
AU - Watanabe, Hayato
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the support from Kongsberg Satellite Services AS, Addnics Corporation and NEC Network & System Integration Corporation. The ALE-1 project is also supported by the Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration Program of JAXA.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/1/11
Y1 - 2021/1/11
N2 - The Space Robotics Laboratory of Tohoku University and ALE Co., Ltd. have developed the micro-satellites 'ALE-I' and 'ALE-2' to demonstrate the generation of artificial meteors. These meteors will be created by the ejection of meteor particles on orbit. This mission necessitates strict safety requirements to prevent the released particles from colliding with other satellites and spacecraft. In this project, we constructed a ground system for the operation of these satellites and established an operation plan to meet their safety requirements. The ground system uses a virtual ground station interface to operate multiple ground stations around the world via an antenna sharing service. A meteor particle release simulation was conducted with ALE-2 on orbit to demonstrate and validate the ground system and operation plan. The results of this test, presented here, show that the ground system can be successfully used to conduct the artificial meteor mission and these operations meet the safety requirements.
AB - The Space Robotics Laboratory of Tohoku University and ALE Co., Ltd. have developed the micro-satellites 'ALE-I' and 'ALE-2' to demonstrate the generation of artificial meteors. These meteors will be created by the ejection of meteor particles on orbit. This mission necessitates strict safety requirements to prevent the released particles from colliding with other satellites and spacecraft. In this project, we constructed a ground system for the operation of these satellites and established an operation plan to meet their safety requirements. The ground system uses a virtual ground station interface to operate multiple ground stations around the world via an antenna sharing service. A meteor particle release simulation was conducted with ALE-2 on orbit to demonstrate and validate the ground system and operation plan. The results of this test, presented here, show that the ground system can be successfully used to conduct the artificial meteor mission and these operations meet the safety requirements.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103739292&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85103739292&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382604
DO - 10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382604
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85103739292
T3 - 2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2021
SP - 531
EP - 536
BT - 2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2021
Y2 - 11 January 2021 through 14 January 2021
ER -