• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.42-47
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• 2014

The role of Electrical Power Subsystem (EPS) is to generate a power and distribute it to the electrical devices for the system operation. For on-orbit operation of cube satellite, it is also necessary to supply power to on-board mission devices as commercial satellite does. Recently, commercial EPS products dedicated for the cube satellite application has been developed and widely used for the power subsystem design. In this paper, a permanent magnet attitude stabilization method without external power has been introduced because it has advantage from power consumption point of view and the EPS design of cube satellite by applying the commercial EPS products has been introduced and investigated. This paper also deals with the specification of the commercial EPS products for the beginner of the cube satellite design.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.179-194
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• 2007

The design and analysis of satellite power subsystem is an important driver for the mass, size, and capability of the satellite. Every other satellite subsystem is affected by the power subsystem, and in particular, important issues such as launch vehicle selection, thermal design, and structural design are largely influenced by the capabilities and limitations of the power system. This paper introduces a new electrical power subsystem design program for the rapid development of LEO satellite and shows an example of design results using other LEO satellite design data. The results shows that the proposed design program can be used the optimum sizing and the analytical prediction of the on-orbit performance of satellite electrical power subsystem.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.31-41
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• 2014

The satellite on geostationary orbit accommodates multiple payloads into a single spacecraft platform and launched in June 26, 2010. The Electrical Power Subsystem provides a fully regulated power bus at $50V_{DC}$ in sunlight and eclipse conditions. The electrical power required to the satellite is generated by a solar array wing and the energy is stored by a Li-Ion battery with a capacity of 192.5Ah. This paper selects the main design parameters, compares and analyzes with the results at ground test and in orbit operation to apply this performance evaluation of the Electrical Power Subsystem to next satellite design on geostationary orbit. The Electrical Power Subsystem is demonstrated nominal behavior without significant degradation through the performance evaluation from design to in orbit operation.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.95-100
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• 2006

The COMS(Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite) EPS(Electrical Power Subsystem) is derived from an enhanced Eurostar 3000 version. Eurostar 3000 EpS is fully autonomous operation in nominal conditions or in the event of a failure and provides a high level of reconfigure capability. This paper introduces the COMS EPS preliminary design result. COMS EPS consists of a battery, a solar arrat wing, a PSR(Power Supply Regulator), a PRU(Pyrotechnic Unit), a SDAM(Solar Array Drive Mechanism) and relay and fuse brackets. COMS EPS can offer a bus power capability of 3 kW. The solar array is made of a deployable wing with two panels. One type fo solar cells is selected ad GaAs/Ge triple junction cells. Li-ion battery is base lined with ten series cell module of five cells in parallel. PSR associated to battery and solar array wing generates a power bus fully regulated at 50 V. Power bus os centralized protection and distribution by relay and fuse brackets. PRU provides power for firing actuarors devices. The solar array wing is rotated by the SADM under control of the attitude orbit control subsystem. The control and monitoring of the EPS, especially of the battery, is performed by the PSR in combination with the on-board software.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.91-91
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• 2003

위성을 발사하기 전까지는 지상에서 EGSE(Electrical Ground Support Equipment)를 이용하여 충분한 시스템 단위의 위성체 기능 시험을 수행한다. KOMPSAT-2(Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite - 2)와 같은 소형 위성의 서브시스템 각각이 요구사항에서 제시하는 규격을 만족하는지 여부를 점검하는 단계에서 전력계 관련 서브시스템의 기능 시험도 EPS(Electrical Power Subsystem) Test Plan에 의해 순차적으로 수행한다. KOMPSAT-2 ETB(Engineering Test Bed)에서의 전력계 시험은 먼저 Test Fuse Modules Check를 수행하였다. 퓨즈 모듈은 PCU(Power Control Unit) 상에 설치되어 있는 장치로써 퓨즈 모듈의 입력과 출력 사이에 도통성 및 다른 출력과의 절연성을 검증한다. 다음으로 EGSE 중 PMTS(Power Monitor Test Set)와 PCU와의 직렬 인터페이스를 점검하는 PCU Interface Check를 수행하였다 시험절차서에 따라 PCU가 가지는 릴레이 스위치에 대하여 명령어를 보내어 릴레이의 동작 상태 및 출력 전압 등을 점검한다. 다음 단계에서는 DC Integration을 수행하여 ETB 하니스 중 전원 관련 라인을 점검하였다 PCU는 모든 위성체 하드웨어에 전력을 공급하는 장비로써 과전력으로부터 하드웨어를 보호하기 위하여 하니스를 연결하기 전에 우선적으로 시험한다. 다음으로는 ECU(EPS Control Unit)가 각각에 해당하는 하드웨어에 명령어를 보내어 전력계 전체적인 동작 상태 검증하는 EPS Hardware Command & Telemetry Checkout을 수행하였다. ECU는 전력계의 모든 하드웨어를 제어하고 그 상태를 모니터링하는 기능을 한다. PCU와의 인터페이스를 통하여 전력의 제어 및 분배에 관련되는 특성을 제어 및 모니터하며 DDC(Deploy Device Controller)는 ECU로부터 명령어를 받아서 arm 및 safe 상태에 대한 텔리 메트리 데이터를 제공한다 그리고, SAR(Solar Array Regulator)는 ECU로부터 Bypass Relay 및 ARM Relay에 관한 명령어를 받아 수행되며 그에 따른 텔리 메트리 데이터를 제공한다. 마지막으로 EPS 소프트웨어를 검증하는 EPS Software Verification을 수행하였다 전력계 소프트웨어의 설계의 검증 부분은 현재 설계 제작된 전력계 .소프트웨어의 동작 특성 이 위성 의 전체 운용개념과 연계하여 전력계 소프트웨어가 전력계 및 위성체의 요구조건을 만족시키는지를 확인하는데 있다. 전력계 운용 소프트웨어는 배터리의 충ㆍ방전을 효율적으로 관리해 3년의 임무 기간동안 위성체에 전력을 공급할 수 있도록 설계되어 있다

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.89-101
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• 2006

This paper addresses Electrical Power Subsystem(EPS) design and verification of HAUSAT-2 small satellite through energy balance analysis(EBA) depending on individual operation modes. GaAs solar cells are used for satellite power generation and digital peak power tracking is implemented for EPS architecture. One battery pack is consisted of 4 Li-Ion cells. Battery charge is accomplished by peak power tracker and battery charge regulator. Power conditioning assembly uses three DC-DC converters, and power distribution assembly which consists of commercial IC and MOSFET switch distributes power to subsystems and payloads. The altitude of 650km and sun-synchronous LEO with various local time ascending node(LTAN) are considered in EBA.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.681-684
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• 2002

In this paper, electrical power subsystem(EPS) simulator for KOMPSAT 2 has been analyzed designed and simulated by object oriented design(OOP) method. To design EPS simulator, the EPS modules, which modeled solar array, solar array regulator, deployment device controller, battery, power control unit, and EPS control unit, are modeled. To verify the EPS simulator, the modules has been simulated. By OOP designs, the EPS simulator is very powerful because this method is applicable to design other EPS simulator.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.84-96
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• 2002

The major goal of this research is to use as a baseline guide for a flight model design of power system of next domestic communication satellite. For this purpose, the EPS(Electrical Power Subsystem) is designed to compliance performance requirements specified in EPS subsystem specification during all expected spacecraft operations. The regulated electrical power bus gives 42.5V to the various spacecraft loads from PCDU(Power Control & Distribution Unit) and the solar arrays are composed of 6 panel, each panel has 3 circuits including 7 string. The battery system is comprised of two batteries consisting of 26 IPV(Individual-Pressure-Vessel) NiH2 cells. Each battery can be capable of delivering 2878Watt-hours at a 80% maximum DOD(Depth of Discharge) based on the nameplate capacity of 150 amper-hours.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.360-362
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• 2005

In this paper, standard model for electrical power subsystem of a satellite simulator is presented and analyzed. The main purpose of standard model simulator is to promote platform independency, interoperability and reusability of simulation models. And, EPS simulator prototype model is proposed using the SMP2 standard.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.72-83
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• 2002

Required power and solar array sizing of KOMPSAT-2 have been analyzed by ASTRIUM and KARI in November, 2000. There are Electrical Power Subsystem(EPS) design discrepancies between ASTRIUM and Korea Aerospace Research Institute(KARI) according to heritage program, EPS operation concepts, power source and the characteristic of the electrical boxes. To design the power system of KOMPSAT-2, ASTRIUM has used the EPS design of the CHAMP and GlobalStar program. But SSTI, TOMS-EP and KOMPSAT-1's design concepts has been used for KOMPSAT-2 EPS design by the KARI. To get the design conclusion, there are many trade-off meetings for the EPS sizing using each sides' heritage program and EPS operation concept. And the EPS design factors and approaching methods have been reviewed and discussed. In addition the EPS design results from ASTRIUM and KARI are summarized in this paper.