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Berlin Experimental and Educational Satellite (BeeSat [1]) is a highly innovative pico satellite project of the Department of Astronautics at Berlin Technical University. Main objective of BeeSat is the on-orbit verification of miniaturized reaction wheels suitable for pico satellites which have been developed with our main industrial partner Astro- und Feinwerktechnik Adlershof GmbH [2]. Work is done to provide a number of additional pico satellite technologies. This paper outlines motivations for equipping a pico satellite with an attitude determination and control system (ADCS) based on reaction wheels. BeeSat’s ADCS is exposed briefly alongside some of the solutions the research team at TU Berlin developed. A sun sensor system based on Position Sensitive Detectors is introduced, a new design principle for magnetic coils is explained and the Microwheel system is displayed.
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Herfort, M., Berlin, M., Geile, HP., Yoon, Z. (2008). BeeSat Attitude Determination and Control System. In: Sandau, R., Röser, HP., Valenzuela, A. (eds) Small Satellites for Earth Observation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6943-7_23
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