NASA Near Earth Network (NEN) and Space Network (SN) CubeSat Communications

Schaire, Scott H.; Shaw, Harry; Altunc, Serhat; Bussey, George; Celeste, Peter; Kegege, Obadiah; Wong, Yen; Zhang, Yuwen; Patel, Chitra; Raphael, David; Burke, Jacob; Cooper, La Vida; Schier, James; Horne, William; Pierce, David

There has been a recent trend to increase capability and drive down the Size, Weight and Power (SWAP) of satellites. NASA scientists and engineers across many of NASA's Mission Directorates and Centers are developing exciting CubeSat concepts and welcome potential partnerships for CubeSat endeavors. From a "Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TT&C) Systems and Flight Operations for Small Satellites" point of view, small satellites including CubeSats are a challenge to coordinate because of existing small spacecraft constraints, such as limited SWAP and attitude control, and the potential for high numbers of operational spacecraft. The NASA Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program's Near Earth Network (NEN) and Space Network (SN) are customer driven organizations that provide comprehensive communications services for space assets including data transport between a mission's orbiting satellite and its Mission Operations Center (MOC). This paper presents how well the SCaN networks, SN and NEN, are currently positioned to support the emerging small small satellite and CubeSat market as well as planned enhancements for future support.

Document ID

20160005439

Document Type

Conference Paper

Authors

Schaire, Scott H. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)

Shaw, Harry (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)

Altunc, Serhat (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)

Bussey, George (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)

Celeste, Peter (Booz-Allen and Hamilton, Inc. Bethesda, MD, United States)

Kegege, Obadiah (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)

Wong, Yen (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)

Zhang, Yuwen (Exelis, Inc. Greenbelt, MD, United States)

Patel, Chitra (Exelis, Inc. Greenbelt, MD, United States)

Raphael, David (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)

Burke, Jacob (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)

Cooper, La Vida (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)

Schier, James (NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)

Horne, William (NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)

Pierce, David (NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)

Date Acquired

April 27, 2016

Publication Date

May 16, 2016

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Report/Patent Number

Meeting Information

International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps 2016)(Daejeon)

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Public

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