Autonomous mission operation design

纳米卫星（质量小于10公斤的航天器）为HQP训练、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了传统的（大型、昂贵、国有的）卫星，用于各种私人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学。我们约克大学的研究团队一直致力于开发一系列纳米卫星技术，这将使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，我们建议扩展目前的纳米卫星研究，与开普勒通信公司（以下简称“开普勒”）合作，研究纳米卫星设计领域，特别是用于低地球轨道通信任务。开普勒一直在与几个研究伙伴合作，包括在过去几年里开发下一代电信解决方案的支持者，使用空间运载的低成本纳米卫星作为关键平台。作为技术演示的第一步，开普勒团队已经开发并描述了适用于星载电信服务的定制高数据速率收发器。接下来，该团队计划在2017年底在一颗立方体卫星上演示空间-地面通信。从长远来看，开普勒将逐步部署卫星基础设施，以全面建立一个全球网络。为了建立多达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。从拟议的CRD项目中，我们建议开发自主任务操作算法，以最大限度地提高演示电信任务的多卫星、多地面站操作的效率。

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.