[Server-sky] Cubesat hosted payload launch opportunity

[Michael Turner]

>From a LinkedIn posting a month ago. A day ago, the slot was still open.

  Meidad Pariente
  CEO at SPACECIALIST

Launch date: April 2014

"We have vacant room for a PC104 CSK standard payload on our 1U cubesat.
The satellite has no attitude control, transmit in VHF and receive in UHF."

"The height is 12 mm, and we have about 25KByte for stored data, in
addition to real time telemetry"

"The mass could be up to 200 grams, power should be around 250 mW"

http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=5794706067132788739&gid=2816605&commentID=5808511828472401920&trk=view_disc&fromEmail=&ut=0955B5RYlgc601

My thought.

KickSat Sprites will be the first free-flying chipsats, as far as I know.

Zac Manchester added a TASC PV to the underside of the final design
for KickSat Sprites in hopes of getting some results even from an
"off-nominal mission" -- i.e., if KickSat fails to sun-point and/or
spin-stabilize. But what if everything goes according to plan? Then he
probably won't get to find out how well Sprites would perform if
KickSat had to deploy Sprites while still tumbling uncontrollably.

I wonder if a deployer for one or more KickSat Sprites could be fit
into a PC/104 slot? There's not much time left, so the design would
need to be very simple and easy to test.

OK, that's the strawman idea. Are there any early-stage demonstrations
of any Server Sky concepts within these constraints?

Regards,
Michael Turner
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