Spacecraft industry is heavily investing in constellation and new business missions, both requiring cost-efficient satellites. While satellites for large constellations are extremely tailored to a particular mission, like the Airbus Arrow platform used for OneWeb, complementary platforms e.g. for in-orbit verification applications need to be highly adaptable to varying customer requirements, instrumentation, orbits and operational concepts. The "Flexible LEO Platform" - FLP2 for short - is a spin-off from the Airbus / University of Stuttgart cooperation during the FLP1 program. It targets towards affordable spacecraft offering a large flexibility in scale and platform/payload interfaces. The key advantage of this platform is its consequent modularity in hardware and software making it suitable for a variety of LEO (Low Earth Orbit) mission scenarios. Payload capacities reach from 25 - 100 kg and from 50 to 300 W average Pwr. The platform is multi-payload capable.


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    Title :

    The Flexible LEO Platform for Small Satellite Missions


    Contributors:
    J. Eickhoff (author) / B. Chintalapati (author) / P. Stoecker (author) / W. Von Kader (author) / R. Traussnig (author) / C. Sayer (author) / R. Peel (author)

    Publication date :

    2018



    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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