Autonomous mission operation design

纳米卫星(质量小于10公斤的航天器)为HQP培训、技术演示和先进的天基研究提供了新的机会。下一代纳米卫星已经取代常规(大规模、昂贵、国有)卫星，用于各种私营工业和学术研究任务，包括动物跟踪、船只跟踪、通信、资源监测、大气科学和地球物理。开发一系列纳米卫星技术一直是我们在约克的研究团队的重点，这些技术将带领我们在不久的将来实现先进的科学纳米卫星任务。在这个CRD项目中，我们建议与开普勒通信公司(以下简称开普勒通信公司)合作，扩展目前的纳米卫星研究，以审查专门用于近地轨道通信任务的纳米卫星设计领域。开普勒在过去几年一直在与包括支持者在内的几个研究伙伴合作，利用星载低成本纳米卫星作为关键平台，开发下一代电信解决方案。作为技术演示的第一步，开普勒团队已经开发并鉴定了适用于星载电信服务的定制高数据速率收发机。接下来，该团队计划于2017年底在立方体卫星级卫星上演示天地通信。从长远来看，开普勒将逐步部署卫星基础设施，全面建立全球网络。**为了建立拥有多达40个在轨航天器的完整卫星网络，卫星和任务设计的几个领域需要改进。从建议的CRD项目中，我们建议开发自主任务操作算法，以实现在演示电信任务的多卫星、多地面站操作时实现最高效率。

Nanosatellites (spacecraft with mass less than 10 kilograms) offer novel opportunities for HQP training, technology demonstration, and advanced space-based research. The next generations of nanosatellites are already replacing conventional (large-scale, expensive, state-operated) satellites for a variety of private industry and academic research missions, including animal tracking, vessel tracking, communication, resourcemonitoring, atmospheric science and geophysics. It has been a focus of our research team at York to develop a series of nanosatellite technologies that will lead us to an advanced scientific nanosatellite missions in near future. In this CRD project, we propose to extend the current nanosatellite research, in partnership with Kepler Communications (referred to as 'Kepler' hereinafter) to examine an area of nanosatellite design especially for communication mission from low-earth orbit. Kepler has been working with several research partners, including the proponent in the last few years to develop a next generation telecommunication solution, using space-borne, low-cost nanosatellite as the key platform. As the first step towards the technology demonstration, the Kepler team has developed and characterized custom high data-rate transceiver suitable for space-borne telecommunication service. Next, the team plans to demonstrate the space-ground communication on-board a CubeSat-class satellite in late 2017. In long run, Kepler will incrementally deploy the satellite infrastructure to fully establish a global network.**In order to establish full satellite network with as many as 40 spacecraft in orbit, several areas of satellite and mission design need to be improved. From the proposed CRD project, we are proposing to develop autonomous mission operation algorithm to achieve maximum efficiency in demonstrating multi-satellite, multi-ground station operation of telecommunication mission.