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Record W6893794324 · doi:10.5281/zenodo.5093781

Lessons learnt from the BRITE mission

2021· article· en· W6893794324 on OpenAlex

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSpacecraft Design and Technology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCubeSatSpacecraftLimitingSpacecraft designLaunchedSatelliteCommunications satelliteAmateur

Abstract

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The first two members of BRITE Constellation, TUGSAT-1/BRITE-Austria and UniBRITE were launched in February 2013, followed by the Polish and Canadian BRITE satellites. Designed for a lifetime of 2 years, the satellites are operational for more than 8 years, four times the design lifetime. This is a remarkable achievement and demonstrates that challenging scientific requirements can be met with low-cost nanosatellites based on COTS components. The presentation summarises the design of the satellites and outlines important lessons learnt from the mission. The UTIAS generic satellite bus (GNB) has proven to be a superb platform. Thermal behaviour is very good and attitude control is better than originally specified resulting in excellent science data quality. For future missions it is recommended to design the spacecraft with a larger size than 3U making thermal and mechanical design easier (the GNB is equivalent to 8U). A larger bus allows to implement more solar cells. With more power available, instruments with Peltier cooling could be used. The batteries are still in good health. Care has, however, to be taken that the batteries are never operated above 47°C and that the depth of discharge shall not exceed 15 % to avoid reduced lifetime. A good FDIR (fault detection, isolation and recovery) system is vital to avoid damages to the spacecraft if no communications with the spacecraft is temporarily unavailable. The BRITE mission has shown that strong interference, particularly in the UHF-band,exists in certain parts of the world, limiting communications. The amateur radio frequencies which have been popular in the CubeSat community can only be utilised if it is a true amateur radio mission. A future science satellite should use the coordinated S-band in up- and downlink for telemetry and telecommand, for bulk data download X-band can be considered. Flight-proven radios are available on the market.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.703
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.039
GPT teacher head0.234
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it