SpIRIT (Space Industry – Responsive – Intelligent – Thermal)

SpIRIT
SpIRIT
SpIRIT
Name SpIRIT (Space Industry – Responsive – Intelligent – Thermal)
Type CubeSat
Units or mass 6U
Mass in kg 11.5 kg
Status not launched, expected in 2023
Organisation University of Melbourne
Institution University
Entity Academic / Education
Nation Australia
Manufacturer AIVT by Inovor
Operator Inovor
Partners University of Melbourne’s Physics and Engineering Schools, Sitael Australia, Inovor Technologies, Neumann Space, Nova Systems
Costs $2.8M grant for the project.
Oneliner

Demonstrator cubesat carrying an X-ray detector and propulsion system.

Description

Demonstrator cubesat carrying an X-ray detector provided by the Italian Space Agency and innovative Australian-made technologies including sophisticated on-board computers and radios, and our miniaturised electric propulsion system.

It will run a suite of powerful scientific instruments, cameras, guidance systems, communication antennae, on-board computers with artificial intelligence capabilities, and even its own electric propulsion thruster.

Seven identical X-ray and gamma-ray spectrometers have been fully tested and calibrated at FBK, IAAT/EKUT and INAF facilities.

University of Melbourne’s Physics and Engineering Schools, Sitael Australia, Inovor Technologies, Neumann Space, and Nova Systems, with support from the Italian and United Kingdom Space Agencies (UK in an advisory role).

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COTS subsystems
  • THRUSTER - Neumann Space
Keywords Propulsion

Last modified: 2023-06-09
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