Small Satellite philosophy presented at SmallSat 2011 conference
Antarctic Broadband’s System Architect, Mr Jan A. King recently delivered an update to his seminal paper on small satellite design philosophy at the AIAA Utah State University SmallSat 2011 conference in Logan, Utah. The paper, Can Small Do What Big Does – Only Better? (An Update), covers advances in technology unique to small space systems, the difference between small and large system development methodologies, business success in various market applications for small satellites and the ability of small commercial systems to deal with sometimes “unfair” universal constraints imposed upon all spacecraft.
The original ‘Can Small Do What Big Does?’ paper was presented at a workshop held at Stanford University, which addressed Emerging Commercial Applications for Small Satellite Technology on March 24, 2009. The paper has now been updated to add new information and changes in outlook since that time.
Following the conference, Jan’s work was picked up by The Space Review contributor Jeff Frost in his article on A quarter century of SmallSat progress. Here Jan notes “The real success in small satellite technology is in Earth imaging, I would say we had marginal success in telecommunications and pretty darn good success in remote sensing. In the rest of the area, I would say we have not produced to date.”
This approach to satellite systems development is fundamental to Antarctic Broadband’s ambitions to provide a cost-effective satellite solution to communications in Antarctica.
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