A cube/nanosat program based on national and international cooperation (original) (raw)

A cube/nanosat program is described which includes academic training combined with science and technological objectives. The program also aims to more complex applications with the use of larger nanosats in constellation with standards based on cubesats and with the formation of new industries in the country attracted from abroad and with a high technological content, in cooperation with existent local companies. The program started with the purchase of a 1U cubesat platform from an international company. For this cubesat, NanosatC-Br1, the science mission objective is to measure the Earth magnetic field in the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly. Two integrated circuits designed in the country, by two different universities, for space use later on will also fly as technological payloads. A second platform was purchased, a 2U cubesat, NanosatC-Br2, with the scientific purpose of measurements of the ionosphere contents with the use of a Langmuir probe. More ambitious projects, with cooperation with other universities and the private sector, are being developed as well with the use of constellations, composed of up to 8x8U nanosats.

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