{"id":17092,"date":"2024-05-18T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/?page_id=17092"},"modified":"2024-05-18T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T07:38:09","slug":"cubesat-propulsion-eg4301-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/projects\/innovations-in-intelligent-systems\/cubesat-propulsion-eg4301-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"CubeSat propulsion using additive manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\t\tCubeSat propulsion using additive manufacturing\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

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Commercial off-the-shelf propulsion systems for CubeSats are generally expensive and bulky. This limits their use by organisations that 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>\n

As such, there is ongoing research in NUS to explore the use of additive manufacturing to produce cost effective and accessible propulsion systems for CubeSats. One such example is the CRADLE-M3. It has a small 1U form factor, is made of Ti6Al4V Grade 23 titanium alloy, and fabricated using powder bed fusion and direct metal laser sintering.<\/p>\n

The objective of this project is to validate the thrust produced by CRADLE-M3 under space conditions. We designed a vacuum chamber to mimic space conditions, and used angular displacement of a momentum trap to obtain the thrust produced by the propulsion system.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

Project Team<\/h3>\n

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