The Nice Cube (Nice$^3$) nanosatellite project

Florentin Millour, Sébastien Ottogalli, Manel Maamri, Arthur Stibbe, Fabien Ferrero, M Lucie Rolland, Solène Rebeyrolle, Aurelie Marcotto, Karim Agabi, Mathilde Beaulieu, Mourad Benabdesselam, Jean-Baptiste Caillau, François Cauneau, Luc Deneire, Franck Mady, David Mary, Anthony Mémin, Gilles Metris, Jean-Baptiste Pomet, Olivier Preis, Robert Staraj, Essam Ait Lachgar, Danielle Baltazar, Baolong Gao, Mathis Deroo, Benjamin Gieudes, Meiyao Jiang, Tito Livio de Mirande Pinto Filho, Maxime Languery, Olivier Petiot, Anthony Thevenon

Abstract :
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CubeSats are tiny satellites with increasing capabilities. They have been used for more than a decade by universities to train students on space technologies, in a hands-on project aiming at building, launching and operating a real satellite. Still today, one shortcoming of CubeSats is their poor ability to transmit large amounts of data to the ground. A possible way to overcome this limitation relies on optical communications. Université Côte d'Azur is studying the feasibility of a student's CubeSat whose main goal is to transmit data with an optical link to the ground at the moderate rate of 1 kb/s (or better). In this paper, we will present the current state of the project and its future developments.
Published : 2018-01-11
Document Type : Conference papers
Affiliation : Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur ; Université Côte d'Azur (UniCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UniCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Source : hal-01815444

Citation

Florentin Millour, Sébastien Ottogalli, Manel Maamri, Arthur Stibbe, Fabien Ferrero, M Lucie Rolland, Solène Rebeyrolle, Aurelie Marcotto, Karim Agabi, Mathilde Beaulieu, Mourad Benabdesselam, Jean-Baptiste Caillau, François Cauneau, Luc Deneire, Franck Mady, David Mary, Anthony Mémin, Gilles Metris, Jean-Baptiste Pomet, Olivier Preis, Robert Staraj, Essam Ait Lachgar, Danielle Baltazar, Baolong Gao, Mathis Deroo, Benjamin Gieudes, Meiyao Jiang, Tito Livio de Mirande Pinto Filho, Maxime Languery, Olivier Petiot, Anthony Thevenon, « The Nice Cube (Nice$^3$) nanosatellite project », Proceedings of the Complex Systems Academy, 2018-01-11. URL : https://hal.science/hal-01815444