Design status of the Delfi-Next nanosatellite project

Delfi-Next is the second project within the Delfi nanosatellite development program of Delft University of Technology. It will provide students hands-on experience, facilitate technology demonstration for innovative miniaturized space technology from the Dutch space sector and allow advancements in satellite bus performance compared to its...

Interface control procedures for university satellite programmes

Now that more and more universities have joined the CubeSat community and have their own satellite in Earth orbit, it is expected that the planned successors will be of higher complexity. These successors within a university satellite programme will often house more technically ad-vanced subsystems as well as more challenging technology...

Configuration management in nanosatellites projects: Evalaution of Delfi-C3 and consequent adaption for Delfi-n3Xt

The Delfi-C3 nano-satellite was launched in April 2008 and the development of its successor, the Delfi-n3Xt, is ongoing. Both of these projects are conducted by students from the Delft University of Technology as a corporation between the Aerospace Engineering Faculty, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science and...

Optimized three-unit cubesat structure for Delfi-n3Xt

For the Delfi-n3Xt mission, follow-up to CubeSat Delfi-C3 [1] of Delft University of Technology, several concepts concerning the Structural Subsystem (STS) have been analysed. One of the main objectives is to reduce the time needed for assembly, integration and testing, and to improve handling capabilities. Lessons learned from Delfi-C3 have...