Modeling and Simulation of a Satellite Training Kit for Providing Space Systems Engineering Knowledge and Technological Development in STEAM

Abstract

Aerospace Engineering is an emerging division of modern engineering nowadays. Many space programs have been taken lately at the graduate and post-graduate levels to familiarize the topic to the students. As a result, space technological knowledge and research have been limited to post-graduate and doctorate students. Undergraduate, college and school students do not get proper access to space-related knowledge. Moreover, nowadays small satellites are very popular for educational and research purposes as big satellites are costly and too complex for starters. For school and college students, it is very hard to understand the system and functions of satellites due to the limitation of space system knowledge. There are some satellite training kits in the market that can help the students to understand the systems and structure of a satellite. However, the few available satellite training kits are very much expensive. The demonstration of such a satellite training kit with a proper program can eradicate the limitation of the availability of space education and keep growing interest among the students about satellite technology. In this thesis project, a systematic architecture has been proposed that can provide the students with space systems engineering experience through demonstration, assembly, integration, and operation of a satellite training kit. The whole architecture has four parts - 1) Simulation, 2) Mechanical, 3) Electrical, and 4) Software. In this thesis, to prove our whole concept we will complete the mechanical and electrical simulations of the satellite training kit.