KrakSat Satellite

KrakSat
KrakSat
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KrakSat
Satellite name KrakSat (KRAKsat)
Spacecraft type CubeSat
Units or mass 1U
Status Reentry 2022-01-17. Was operational until 2019-07-30, 14 days after battery dropped to critical level. Was quiet from deployment on 2019-07-03 to 2019-07-16 after which two-way communications was established, but mission objectives not completed.
Launched 2019-04-17
NORAD ID 44426
Deployer NRCSD (NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) [Quad-M]
Launcher Antares
Deployment Deployed from ISS on 2019-07-03
Organisation AGH University of Science and Technology
Institution University
Entity Academic / Education
Country Poland
Manufacturer AIVT by SatRev
Launch brokerer Nanoracks
Partners SatRev, Jagiellonian University
Oneliner

Demostrate ferrofluid based attitude control.

Description

Check how the magnetic liquid, called ferrofluid, will act in the space. Use it as a flywheel in outer space where is no gravitation, by putting it in rotary motion in magnetic field. The liquid should rotate with expected velocity and change the direction of rotational speed of the satellite. Ferrofluid is a suspension consisting of tiny magnetite molecules in carrier fluid. In our experiment we will use its strong reactivity to magnetic field.

Results

Main experiment of Ferrofluid Reaction Wheel not started due to negative power budgets and various cascading problems.

Failure cause Power supply (negative power budget) problems causing endless loop of restarts. Also hysteresis and EPS problems.
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Keywords
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