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Northumbria University

GB-Newcastle Upon Tyne: T21/0009 CubeSat Hardware and Services

Communications EquipmentCPV 32530000 34712000 34712200 35631100 32531000 32324310 32534000
Value£130k
Deadline15 Nov 2021
Published19 Nov 2021
RegionNorth East
Timeline
Published 19 Nov 2021ClosedCloses 15 Nov 2021
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£130ktotal contract value
median £101k
this tender£0£2.9m

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The brief

The space communications sector is currently booming with the emergence of low cost, short-turnaround and high production rate satellites, such as CubeSats, small-sats and low earth orbit (LEO) constellations.

Here we explicitly refer to the CubeSat technology although much of what we propose could be applied to all forms of small-satellite platforms.

One significant drawback for CubeSats is that they are not currently applicable for data intensive applications, spanning from commercial telecommunications to remote sensing science missions (Earth observation, solar/terrestrial and astrophysics).

We are seeking a supplier who can provide us with expert knowledge of the thermal and mechanical environment of CubeSats in low Earth polar Sun-synchronous orbits, as well as the listed 3U CubeSat hardware, so that we can incorporate and lab demonstrate (TRL-7) a prototype system for 1 Gbps FSO-based CubeSat-to-CubeSat (C2C) communications.

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