The objective of this mission is functional test of communication antenna deployment mechanism
developed for TITech CubeSat CUTE-I. CUTE-I has 430MHz band CW-transmitter, 430MHz band FM-transmitter and
140MHz band receiver. Thus three deployable monopole antennas are equipped. These antennas are fixed to structure
of CUTE-I by Nylon line.
|
Nylon line attached to the tip of communicaton antenna is fixed like in left figure. Nichrome wire is
winded in a spiral and nylon line is threaded into it.
|
|
Nichrome wire is heated turning on an electrical current to nichrome wier
|
|
Nylon line is melted and cut off, afterward communication antenna is deployed by own elasticity
|
Therefor we load these components into TITech CarrierSat and conduct functional test of this mechanism during
CarrierSat operating parasailling mission.
|
