Celebration of final acceptance and shipping

AU02

UNSW-ECOAU03

INSPIRE-2

Celebration of final acceptance and shipping

Iver CairnsProfessor in Space Physics at The University of Sydney

Leader of the AU03 / INSPIRE-2 QB50 team

INSPIRE-2

• Revised into a 3-university project:

– University of Sydney

– Australian National University

– University of New South Wales (Sydney)

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Iver Cairns, 15/10/2015

USyd: 3+ payloads , launch, assembly, integration, testing, leadership (Prof

Iver Cairns, Jiro Funamoto, Wayne Peacock, David Dall, ....)

• EU QB50 Langmuir probe

• nanophotonic spectrograph

• radiation counter

• microdosimeter

UNSW (Sydney): Spacecraft design, integration, testing, software

(Prof . Andrew Dempster, Drs Joon Cheong & Barnaby Osborne)

• Kea GPS instrument

ANU: Spacecraft parts and ground based testing at AITC (Profs Christine

Charles & Rod Boswell)

Groundstations: UNSW (& Strasbourg) & ANU

INSPIRE-2 CubeSat

Kea GPS receiver: radio

occultation & reflectometry

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Nanospec: Photonic Spectrograph

FWHM~0.4nm or R=1400

Wavelength (nm)

Inte

nsity (

rela

tive)

mNLP: Ionosphere &

thermosphere plasma density

“Plasma tubes in

the sky”,

C. Loi et al., 2015

INSPIRE-2

Radiation Counter & Microdosimeter:

Space Weather at Earth

Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS)

parts ~ $80K

INSPIRE-2: First stack (22 April 2016)

Radiation Counter & Microdosimeter

and the EAUX PCB

INSPIRE-2 / AU03

Vibration Test (Quasi-static) –

AITC on 22 June 2016

Ready to Travel

Celebration of final acceptance and

shipping

Ready to travel?