{"id":16127,"date":"2023-05-18T14:26:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T06:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/?page_id=16127"},"modified":"2023-05-18T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T06:27:00","slug":"cubesat-propulsion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/projects\/innovations-in-intelligent-systems\/cubesat-propulsion\/","title":{"rendered":"CubeSat propulsion using additive manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2>CubeSat propulsion using additive manufacturing<\/h2>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/05\/idp-sc2023-cubesat-propulsion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"588\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Commercial off-the-shelf propulsion systems for CubeSats are generally expensive and bulky. This limits their use by organisations who are interested to deploy CubeSats for research and non-commercial purposes. Moreover, they have limited capabilities and are difficult to tailor for specific missions.<\/p>\r\n<p>This project explores the use of additive manufacturing to produce a cost effective and accessible propulsion system for a 3U CubeSat. The propulsion system is made of Ti6Al4V Grade 23 titanium alloy, fabricated using powder bed fusion and direct metal laser sintering. It has a flexible design which can be customised based on mission requirements. The design is optimised with a small 1U form factor while maximising propellant storage.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/05\/ASI-401-Cubesat-propulsion-using-additive-manufacturing-1024x824.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"824\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h3>Project Team<\/h3>\r\n<h4>Students:<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Darryl Ng Hou Wee (Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2023)<\/li>\r\n<li>Madavana Sidhaarth Menon Sunil Kumar (Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2023)<\/li>\r\n<li>Mohamed Faris Bin Mohamed Faisal (Electrical Engineering, Class of 2023)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Supervisors:<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Eugene Ee (<a href=\"mailto:wheee@nus.edu.sg\">wheee@nus.edu.sg<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n<li>Soh Eng Keng (<a href=\"mailto:ek.soh@nus.edu.sg\">ek.soh@nus.edu.sg<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/05\/FS4_3097-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CubeSat propulsion using additive manufacturing Commercial off-the-shelf propulsion systems for CubeSats are generally expensive and bulky. This limits their use by organisations who are interested to deploy CubeSats for research and non-commercial purposes. Moreover, they have limited capabilities and are difficult to tailor for specific missions. This project explores the use of additive manufacturing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16129,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16127\/revisions\/16129"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}