Development of MINISAT 01 Scientific Payload

Abstract

The MINISAT design is a modular concept, and accordingly the ScientificPayload of Mission 01 is a self-contained Payload Module (PLM). Thisphilosophy offers the advantage that the Payload and the Platform may beassembled independently and coupled together at a later stage. Themechanical, thermal, power and data interfaces have to be secured alongthe design and development phases. The MINISAT 01 PLM with threeinstruments, EURD, LEGRI and CPLM, integrates on a structural tray adozen of equipment supplied by more than ten participant Institutions. TheAssembly, Integration and Verifications (AIV) of the PLM, was performedat INTA, providing the common structural, harnessing and thermal controlsubsystems. In this paper an overview is presented of the PLM layout of thedifferent models and the qualification and acceptance testing.