Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Tech Transfer
High Power Radiation Tolerant CubeSat Power System
Project Description
No vendor has yet to provide a radiation tolerant, high efficiency, small Power Management and Distribution module for the SmallSat and CubeSat market yet. Let alone one with built in batteries. That is where ExoTerra's mission ready Universal Power Storage, Management, And Distribution comes in. Offering nine different voltage rails, each with multiple switched outputs, and an attached thermally moderated 40Whr Lithium Ion battery pack, all packaged in a CubeSat standard PC104 electronics form factor. Its highly modular nature and inherent radiation tolerance will allow it to be used in a multitude of missions right off of the shelf.
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Anticipated Benefits
A low cost, radiation tolerant, high efficiency combined PMAD and battery module have several NASA applications. With these, NASA can perform low cost interplanetary exploration, coordinated observation, infrastructure, and shotgun exploration applications. NASA mission applications identified by ExoTerra include Interplanetary CubeSats "shotgun" exploration to candidate asteroids, or sending multiple, low cost, CubeSats to a celestial body simultaneously.
CubeSat's are becoming a more dominant presence in space due to their high capability in relation to their much lower cost of entry to space. There is a growing demand for low cost, well designed, radiation tolerant CubeSat components, as is evidenced by ExoTerra's recent designing of a new 1kW PMAD for Pumpkin, Inc. ExoTerra fills this void with the highly functional UPSMAD. More »
CubeSat's are becoming a more dominant presence in space due to their high capability in relation to their much lower cost of entry to space. There is a growing demand for low cost, well designed, radiation tolerant CubeSat components, as is evidenced by ExoTerra's recent designing of a new 1kW PMAD for Pumpkin, Inc. ExoTerra fills this void with the highly functional UPSMAD. More »
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Primary U.S. Work Locations and Key Partners
| Organizations Performing Work | Role | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| ExoTerra Resource, LLC | Lead Organization | Industry | Littleton, Colorado |
| Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | Supporting Organization | FFRDC/UARC | Pasadena, California |
Primary U.S. Work Locations
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California
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Colorado
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