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I-INSPIRE Papers Proceedings of the 11th Australian Space Science Conference Canberra 26 - 29 September, 2011 Australian Space Science Conference Series 1st Edition Published in Australia in 2012 by National Space Society of Australia Ltd GPO Box 7048 Sydney NSW 2001 Fax: 61 (02) 9988-0262 email: [email protected] website: http://www.nssa.com.au Copyright © 2012 National Space Society of Australia Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission from the publisher. ISBN 13: 978-0-9775740-5-6 Editors: Wayne Short and Iver Cairns Distributed on DVD Proceedings of the 11th Australian Space Science Conference, 2011 Page i Table of Contents Preface to Proceedings page iii Conference Background page iv List of Proceedings Papers page vii Welcome to the 11th Australian Space Science Conference page x About the NSSA page xi About the NCSS page xii Italy-Australia Space Science Symposium page xiv 2011 Program Committee page xv 2011 Organising Committee page xvi Conference Plenary Speakers page xvii Program page xix Page vi Proceedings of the 11th Australian Space Science Conference, 2011 List of Proceedings Papers Authors Paper Title Duncan Steel and Space Reconnaissance: Scanning the Sky with an Optical pages 1 - 12 Harrison Steel Arecibo Jonathan Horner, Robert A Wittenmyer, The Curious Case of HU Aquarii : Dynamically Testing Jonathan P Marshall, pages 13 - 26 Proposed Planetary Systems Chris G Tinney and Oliver W Butters Jonathan Horner and Are Two of the Neptune Trojans Dynamically Unstable? pages 27 - 38 Patryk Sofia Lykawka Jonathan Horner and Quantifying Jupiter’s influence on the Earth’s impact flux: pages 39 - 54 Barrie Jones Implications for planetary habitability Jeremy Bailey Methane and Deuterium in Titan’s Atmosphere pages 55 - 64 Daniel V. Cotton and Carbon Monoxide Above and Below Venus’ Clouds pages 65 - 74 Jeremy A. Bailey Constraining Weathering Processes on Venus from Particle Elyse Schinella and Size Distributions and Magellan Synthetic Aperture Radar pages 75 - 76 Craig O’Neill (SAR) Duncan Steel A hypothesis for Mercury’s high metal content pages 77 - 92 Marc D. Norman, Sim The Lunar Impact Record: Greatest Hits and One Hit Hui and Katherine pages 93 - 104 Wonders Adena Impacts on the Moon: Understanding the Record of Lunar Nicole E. B. Zellner pages 105 - 116 Impact Glasses N.E.B. Zellner, V.P. Assessing the Survival of Glycolaldehyde After High Velocity McCaffrey, E.R. Bennett pages 117 - 128 Impacts: Initial Experiments and Results and C.M. Waun Duane W. Hamacher, Andrew Buchel, Craig An Impact Crater in Palm Valley, Central Australia? pages 129 - 140 O’Neill and Tui R. Britton Edhem Custovic, Andrew McDonald, Next Generation of Over the Horizon HF Radars and the Thomas Kane, Vinh Vu , pages 141 - 156 determination of foF2 in real-time James Whittington and John Devlin James D Biggs and John Orbital Space Debris and Skyglow pages 157 - 164 A Kennewell James C. Bennett and Modelling the evolution of the low-Earth Orbit debris pages 165 - 178 Jizhang Sang population Jizhang Sang and An Analysis of Observations from EOS Space Debris pages 179 - 190 Craig Smith Tracking System Feature Reduction Based on a Combination of Mutual Md. Ali Hossain, Mark Information and Principal Component Analysis for pages 191 - 200 Pickering, Xiuping Jia Hyperspectral Image Classification Proceedings of the 11th Australian Space Science Conference, 2011 Page vii List of Proceedings Papers Authors Paper Title Kegen Yu, Chris Rizos Sea State Estimation Using Data Collected from Low- pages 201 - 212 and Andrew Dempster Altitude Airborne Experiments Éamonn Glennon, Kevin Parkinson , Peter Mumford, Nagaraj A GPS Receiver Designed for Cubesat Operations pages 213 - 222 Shivaramaiah Yong Li , Rui Li and Yuanyuan Jiao Tanya Vladimirova, Nigel P. Bannister, John Fothergill, George W. Fraser, Mark Lester,, CubeSat Mission for Space Weather Monitoring pages 223 - 236 Darren Wright, Michael J. Pont, David J. Barnhart and Omar Emam Chafik Egho and Tanya Hardware Acceleration of the KLT Eigenvector for pages 237 - 248 Vladimirova Compression of Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery Lisa Fogarty, Iver Cairns, Joss Bland- Hawthorn, Xiaofeng The initial - INtegrated SPectrograph, Imager and Radiation Wu, Chris Betters, pages 249 - 256 Explorer (i-INSPIRE) - a university satellite project. Jiro Funamoto, Sergio Leon-Saval!, Tony Monger, Size Xiao C. Betters, I. H Cairns, J. Bland-Hawthorn , X. Wu, L. Fogarty, Instrumentation of the i-INSPIRE satellite pages 257 - 266 J. Funamoto, S.G. Leon- Saval , A. Monger and S.Z. (A.) Xiao Size Xiao, Xiaofeng Wu, Iver Cairns, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Chris Betters, Jiro Funamoto, i-INSPIRE Tube-Satellite Bus Design pages 267 - 274 Sergio Leon-Saval, Lisa Fogarty, Tony Monger and Xueliang Bai Jiro Funamoto, Xiaofeng Wu , Iver H. Cairns, Joss Bland- Hawthorn, Chris Engineering i-INSPIRE - a Pico-Satellite from Australia pages 275 - 284 Betters, Lisa Fogarty, Sergio G. Leon-Saval, Anthony G. Monger and Size Xiao S.G. Leon-Saval & J. Space photonics: next generation space instrumentation pages 285 - 290 Bland-Hawthorn Jiro Funamoto, Joe Khachan, Xiaofeng Wu, Electric (ion) propulsion devices for satellites of any size: pages 291 - 300 Adam Israel and Rishi The Charge Exchange Thruster (CXT) Verma Page viii Proceedings of the 11th Australian Space Science Conference, 2011 List of Proceedings Papers Authors Paper Title Albert K. Chong, David Buttsworth, Neil Application of Photogrammetry at USQ Hypersonic Wind Mudford, Michael Jokic, pages 301 - 312 Tunnel Sudantha Balage, Sean O’Byrne James E. Barth, Vincent Effects of Ethylene Combustion in a Hypersonic Turbulent Wheatley, and Michael pages 313 - 326 Boundary Layer K. Smart Yedhu Krishna, Sean O’Byrne, Joseph John Diode Laser Measurement of Mach Number and Angle of pages 327 - 338 Kurtz and Carlos Attack in a Hypersonic Inlet Guillermo Rodriguez David J. Petty , V. A Parametric Study of Oxygen Enriched Scramjet Wheatley and M. K. pages 339 - 350 Combustion Smart A.Saha, T.Ray, Learning from Evolutionary Algorithm based Design pages 351 - 358 H.Ogawa and R.R.Boyce Optimization of Axisymmetric Scramjet Inlets Ken Ho , Thierry Peynot Analysis of Terrain Geometry Representations For pages 359 - 372 and Salah Sukkarieh Traversability of a Mars Rover Angelo B R Villarosa Aerodynamic Analysis of the Ausroc Nano using CFD pages 373 - 384 and Aubrey A Keller APPENDIX A 11ASSC: List of Presentations & Posters pages a - i Proceedings of the 11th Australian Space Science Conference, 2011 Page ix The initial - INtegrated SPectrograph, Imager and Radiation Explorer (i-INSPIRE) - a university satellite project. Lisa Fogarty∗, Iver Cairns∗, Joss Bland-Hawthorn∗, Xiaofeng Wu†, Chris Betters∗, Jiro Funamoto†, Sergio Leon-Saval∗, Tony Monger∗, Size Xiao† ∗ School of Physics, A28, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia † School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia Summary: i-INSPIRE (initial-INtegrated SPectrograph, Imager and Radiation Explorer) is a collaborative project at the University of Sydney combining expertise from the School of Physics and the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering. i-INSPIRE is a small, light-weight, tube-shaped satellite which will be the first of its kind to be fully constructed and operated by an Australian university. This paper overviews the underlying concepts and aims of the i-INSPIRE project, describes the satellite and its sub-systems, gives an introduction to the science instruments, and posits some future directions for space-based projects at the University of Sydney. Keywords: Satellite, photonics, spectrograph, radiation counter, imager. Introduction The initial - INtegrated SPectrograph, Imager and Radiation Explorer (i-INSPIRE) is a collaborative project between the School of Physics and the School of Aerospace, Mechatronic and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sydney. It is a pico-satellite (<1 kg) which will be the first to be built, launched and operated by a single Australian university. The project is envisioned as a demonstration of the capability of the University of Sydney collaboration, and the Australian university community in general, to successfully launch and operate satellites. The i-INSPIRE satellite is the first step towards the development of an Australian near- Earth space capability as recommended in the Decadal Plan for Australian Space Science [1]. As such i-INSPIRE is considered a crucial step towards the realisation of the Marabibi constellation. The Decadal Plan focusses on linking such diverse science areas as astronomy, Earth science and climate change (for example) within the context of space-based missions and their associated data-gathering capabilities. To this end the Decadal Plan also recommends the development of new instruments suitable for space, making specific mention of the huge potential of advanced photonic instrumentation. The science payload on board i-INSPIRE includes a novel photonic micro-spectrograph called NanoSpec (described in more detail below and in Betters et al. [2]). From a technical point of view, the project aims to demonstrate the successful building, testing, and operation of the i-INSPIRE satellite and its sub-systems. A vital part of this is the development of software to co-ordinate the operation of the science instruments, the storage Proceedings from 11th Australian Space Science Conference, 2011 Page 249 of science data and basic telemetry, and the operation of the satellite transceiver. We must also be able to communicate with i-INSPIRE from the ground. This involves building and operating a suitable ground station, the purpose of which is to transmit signals to the satellite, to receive signals from the satellite, and to store all data from the satellite. An associated system is envisioned to decode, process, and analyse the data offline. This entire system is hereafter referred to as the ground station. The technical aspects of i-INSPIRE are laid out in more detail in Funamoto et al. [3] and Xiao et al.
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