SATELLITE SCANNER

Mission

• secondary payload of satellite, for verification of laser, downlink-data transmission

Performance of coarse pointing system:

• velocity: 500mrad/sec, +/-1% 
• acceleration: 100mrad/sec²
• closed-loop velocity bandwidth: 500Hz
• sampling rate of the control loop: 5kHz
• accuracy of the closed velocity loop: 100µrad/sec

Other applications for MACCON drives in space and on satellites are:

• scanning for micro-humidity sensors 
• boom and solar-array deployment
• microwave switches
• centrifuges for simulation of micro-gravity between 0 and 1g