SATELLITE TRAINING
For the 21st Century
TRAIN YOUR WHOLE ORGANIZATION OVER AND OVER AGAIN
FOR MUCH LESS THAN THE COST OF SENDING ONE PERSON TO A SEMINAR
SATELLITE TRAINING
For the 21st Century
These DVD's and videotapes will be worth a fortune to you as a timesaver and confidence-builder. It will also save you money by re-training all your existing employees in new concepts and ideas, training new employees without all the additional seminar fee expenses, and save you hotel bills, airfares & travel time.
NOW available in both NTSC and PAL Video Formats
| MICRO SATELLITES - 3 Hour 29 Minutes - Price $695.00 - Rental $375.00 |
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This is a very specialized tape. The instructor - Dr. Rick Fleeter - President and CEO, AeroAstro - has been a specialist in the small satellite industry for over 15 years. This set of 2 tapes condenses the content of a one day seminar into three and a half hours. The normal cost of attending this seminar is over $1,000 not including travel time and expense.
The seminar describes how by allowing a much larger user community access to space by creating new opportunities for space missions despite budget declines at NASA and other sponsors space becomes more attractive for private investment. Taking advantage of the expansion in the capabilities of microelectronics have combined to create a renaissance in development of the lowest cost, smallest spacecraft, typically weighing between 1 and 100 kg.
In the tape, Dr. Fleeter brings to the scientific, government and commercial user and space systems developer a broad, synoptic understanding of the philosophies, methods and approaches which underlie this expanding segment of space activity. The video stresses the interplay of requirements and spacecraft capabilities which allow maintenance of a very low cost program. The course examines traditional managerial and technical approaches which have not scaled well to small programs, and presents alternative techniques which have proven successful in minimizing mission cost while maintaining reliability standards among the best in the space industry.
Spacecraft size and budget affect every aspect of a mission. Dr. Fleeter's seminar focuses on mission selection and tailoring, systems design and program management for maximizing the effectiveness of each program dollar. Illustrations are drawn from specific engineering approaches to minimum cost spacecraft design. Spacecraft development techniques, parts selection rationale including handling radiation effects and parts qualification requirements and typical mission development timelines are discussed.
The course includes detailed treatment of the options in spacecraft attitude determination and control as an illustration of the design options available to the microspacecraft developer and user, and concludes with a survey of the future impact and applications of minimum mission technologies and trends.
| Section | Tape 1 - Subject Covered | Minutes |
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| 1. | Demand for Micro Satellites - Overview of technological, budget and managerial changes which drive the demand for and capabilities of microsatellites. Definitions of microsatellites. Survey of microsatellite programs. | 51:30 |
| 2. | Mission Planning and Architecture - Interactive design and requirements definition. Alternatives to mission driving requirements. Parts selection criteria and specifications. Ground operations alternatives. | 27:30 |
| 3. | Launch Alternatives - Brief description of the effect of launch cost on mission cost. | 23:00 |
| Section | Tape 2 - Subject Covered | Minutes |
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| 1. | Stabilization Systems - Stabilization and control systems for minimum cost missions. Listing of stabilization alternatives. Pros and Cons of various choices. Spacecraft that employ specific guidance and control strategies. | 14:30 |
| 2. | Structures and Mechanisms - Avoiding deployables, estimation of the true cost of deployable mechanisms. How to build moving structures that work reliably in space. | 11:30 |
| 3. | Reliability - Spacecraft which employed specific G&C strategies. Ways to configure the spacecraft design to ease G&C requirements and cost Detailed description of selected low cost spacecraft G&C systems. | 23:30 |
| 4. | Threats - Don't waste precious program resources buying insurance against improbable threats. Focus on issues critical to mission success. Methods for handling radiation and space environmental threats appropriate to minimum cost missions. | 09:00 |
| 5. | Organization and Management - Geography, documentation, redundant staffing and error checking. Program reviews. Level of authority and group topology. | 24:30 |
| 6. | The Future - Technology drivers - information processing, electric power, attitude determination, propulsion and launch vehicles. New missions. Cost, size and complexity trends. | 26:30 |
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