TechDemoSat-1 information
relevant to onboard use of Saratoga.
SSTL's TechDemoSat-1, launched to orbit on 8 July 2014, includes a large number of payloads
for experimental use. Saratoga is onboard.
Videos:
- TechDemoSat-1 in orbit video, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, 11 August 2014.
- Launch of Soyuz 2.1b with "Meteor-M" no. 2, Roscosmos, Russian Federal Space Agency, 9 July 2014.
- Launch of Soyuz with Meteor-M2 and DX1 spacecrafts, DauriaAerospace, 8 July 2014.
- UK demo satellites set for launch, WORLD Breaking News, 8 July 2014.
- Launch preparation, Roscosmos, Russian Federal Space Agency, 7 July 2014.
- Payload and fairing mounting, Roscosmos, Russian Federal Space Agency, 2 July 2014.
- Introduction to TechDemoSat-1, SSTLTV, 13 June 2014.
Launch details are given by:
- Space collision course avoided for TechDemoSat-1, SSTL blog, 24 October 2014.
- UK satellite's view of 'Blue Planet' Earth, Jonathan Amos, BBC News, 12 August 2014.
- TechDemoSat-1 celebrates ride uphill with a selfie, Chris Bergin, NASASpaceFlight, 25 July 2014.
- SSTL marks completion of TechDemoSat-1 LEOP phase with a "selfie", SSTL press release, 25 July 2014.
- SSTL announces the successful launch of UK in-orbit demonstrator satellite, TechDemoSat-1, SSTL press release, 8 July 2014.
- Soyuz rocket with seven satellites lifts off from Baikonur, ITAR-TASS News Agency, 8 July 2014.
- From Baikonur rocket "Soyuz 2.1b" with U.S. satellite (in Russian, launch photos), news ru.com, 8 July 2014.
- Hydrometeorological satellite "Meteor-M" no. 2 launched into orbit, (in Russian, afterlaunch photo), 8 July 2014.
- Soyuz rocket sends up Russian weather satellite, Stephen Clark, Spaceflight Now, 8 July 2014.
- Lift-off for British demo satellites, Jonathan Amos, BBC News, 8 July 2014.
- Spacecraft "Meteor-M" successfully launched into the target orbit, Roscosmos News, 8 July 2014.
- Soyuz Rocket arrives at Launch Pad for Meteor-M Launch on Tuesday, Spaceflight 101, 7 July 2014.
- Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) - Eight + A Date... With Soyuz-2 For TechDemoSat-1 (Satellite), Satnews Daily, 20 June 2014.
- A Small Satellite with Big Plans: TechDemoSat-1, Joanna Barstow, Oxford Department of Physics blog, 13 June 2014.
- SSTL announces TechDemoSat-1 launch date, SSTL press release, 23 May 2014.
- A Russian Launch Countdown Resumes without Canada, Peter de Selding, SpaceNews, 23 May 2014.
- March launch for UKube-1 and TechDemoSat-1, AMSAT-UK, 5 November 2013.
Communication subsystem details are in:
- TechDemoSat-1: A Software Testbed for CCSDS SM&C, Nicholas Holt, Andy Bewer, Mark Doyle and Johannes Klug, European Ground System Architecture Workshop (ESAW), June 2013.
- TechDemoSat-1 project overview, Victoria O'Donovan, 8th Appleton Space Conference, December 2012.
- Bridging the Abyss - Agile Downlink Solutions for the Disaster Monitoring Constellation,
Mark Brenchley, Peter Garner, Andrew Cawthorne, Katarzyna Wisniewska and
Philip Davies, Small Satellites Systems and Services (4S) Symposium, Portoroz,
Slovenia, June 2012.
- Getting the Bigger Picture: More Bytes for your Buck, Zeger de Groot, James Penson, Adam Baker and Paul Stephens, 22nd AIAA Small Satellite Conference, Logan, Utah, August 2008.
Also discussion of communication and hardware interfaces:
Genesis:
Onboard experiments
GPS Reflectometry
- SSTL demonstrates innovative method for measuring ocean winds and waves from space, SSTL press release, 25 September 2014.
- Using satnav signals to measure winds and waves, SSTL blog post, September 2014.
- Implementing GNSS-Reflectometry in Space on the TechDemoSat-1 Mission, M. Unwin, S. Duncan, P. Jales, P. Blunt and M. Brenchley, ION GNSS+ 2014.
- GNSS Remote Sensing and Technology Demonstration on TechDemoSat-1, M. Unwin, P. Blunt, R. de Vos van Steenwijk, S. Duncan, G. Martin, P. Jales, SSTL white paper.