MEHMET SEVKET ULUDAG, RESEARCHER.
TU DELFT
M Sevket Uludag received his MSc in Aeronautics Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and his BSc in Electrical Engineering & BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the same university. He currently works as a Researcher at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands and a PhD candidate in Aeronautics Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. His research interests are distributed space systems, miniaturization, systems engineering for atto-pico satellites, system development and testing. He has been involved in 6 cubesat missions and 1 pocketqube mission.
Presentation Synopsis:
“Delfi-PQ (Almost) 2 years in space!”
The Delft University of Technology started in 2016 the development of its first PocketQube, Delfi-PQ, to demonstrate the next step in spacecraft miniaturization after CubeSats. Delfi-PQ has been designed by faculty staff members and students as part of the educational activities. The satellite bus has been fully developed to demonstrate a factor eight volume reduction with respect to the previous spacecrafts designed by the university. The core sub-systems, including on-board computer, radio, power system and structure, have been developed and tested. After that a set of payloads for technology demonstration for future missions has been developed. This presentation will give an overview of the Delfi-PQ development and present its payloads. We already know about this part of the story, now comes chapter 2!
Delfi-PQ is orbiting the earth since February 2022. All the subsystems proven to be working which will become the foundation for the next satellite. It has been operational since and of course it has its good and bad moments. Our satellite is rather cold, battery protection is causing a different issue because we are too power efficient. There is an ADCS which is waiting for someone to write a nice piece of code that we can upload. We have more power than we can consume, and the satellite is just too excited to share its data with us, we just need to change the frequency of transmission.
In our presentation we would like to share our experience, lessons learned, in-orbit results, in short all those good and bad moments with the community.