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Attitude Control System Test Facility

Based on the experiences with the BIRD Attitude Control System Test Facility during the last years, recent approaches and the requirements of state-of-the-art attitude control systems, Astro- und Feinwerktechnik Adlershof GmbH has developed and built a new ACS Test Facility for the verification of micro and mini satellite busses.

The ACS Test Facility includes:

air bearing table with a platform allowing free 360° rotation around the vertical axis and between 20° and 30° around the horizontal axes
high precision in-orbit earth magnetic field simulation
electronic center of gravity (CoG) calibration
adjustable and movable sun simulation
WLAN command line
safety mechanisms for save operation and satellite mounting
power supply and distribution for the test object

Additional information:

Experiences with the BIRD ACS test facility and the resulting design of a state of the art mini- and micro-satellite ACS test facility

This document is based on a research and development project by order of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment with the registration number 50 JR 0651.
The responsibility of the content of this publication is with the author.