HUMSAT

Space Engineering

HUMDE Within the HumSAT project the joint venture of several research groups of the Univesity of Vigo has built the pico-satellite HumSAT demonstrator (HUMDE) according to the cubesat standard following the ECSS (European Cooperation for Space Standardization) recommendations. The satellite has been launched on November 21st, 2013 (ESA eoPortal) from the Russian Launch Site Baikonur as one of the payloads on a Dnepr rocket.

In LIA, we coorporated in the design and implementation of the HumSAT demonstrator on-board software written in C (based on our previously developed on-board software for XaTcobeo):

HumSAT Mission Software (hms): the fully functional upper layers of the real-time on-board software following the system design specifications which uses the low-level drivers provided by INTA and the space link functionality including the communications modes developed by the telecommunications group.
HumSAT Mimicry Software: basic mimicry of the low-level drivers on API level for debugging purposes of hms on a Linux platform.
HumSAT Groundstation Simulation Software (hgs): a simple simulator on packet exchange level over UDP for debugging purposes of hms on the simulation platform.
HumSAT Debug Software (hds): a simulator of the serial interface to the HumSAT hardware for debugging purposes of hms on the simulation platform.

A brief overview of the HumSAT on-board software can be found in the file HDS-M-52000-obsw-overview.

Serpens-B Another HumSAT radio system will be placed as payload in the 3-Cubesat SERPENS (Sistema Espacial para Realização de Pesquisa e Experimentos com Nanossatélites) currently developed and built in Brazil. In LIA we adapt the on-board software from HUMDE to work on the new platform.

Financed Projects

Title: IMONSS: Desarrollo de un pequeño satélite para la monotorización del espectro y validación de comunicaciones robustas
Start Date: 01/01/2017
End Date: 29/06/2019
Budget: 240000 €
Leaders: Arno Formella, Fernando Aguado Agelet
Funding Bodies: Ministerio de Economía y Competividad [ESP2016-79184-R]
Title: Licencia de uso do software de voo desenvolvido pola Universidade de Vigo para un satélite (modelo de calificación e modelo de voo)
Start Date: 14/12/2016
End Date: 30/09/2019
Budget: 50000 €
Leaders: Arno Formella
Funding Bodies: CINEA (Centro de Innovación Aeroespacial) [CO-0101-16]
Title: Fire-RS: Wildfire picosatellite constellation and UAVs remote sensing: active fire mapping and management
Start Date: 01/07/2016
End Date: 30/06/2019
Budget: 1121252 €
Leaders: Fernando Aguado Agelet
Funding Bodies: Interreg V B - Unión Europea - SUDOE - Cooperación Transfronteriza [SOE1/P4/E0437]
Title: PentaS: Smart Software para dar Servicio global a Sensores mediante Satélites
Start Date: 01/01/2014
End Date: 30/06/2017
Budget: 121000 €
Leaders: Arno Formella, Francisco Javier Rodríguez Martínez
Funding Bodies: Ministerio de Economía y Competividad [ESP2013-47935-C4-2-R], European Union (FEDER Funds)
Title: Consolidación e estruturación de unidades de investigación competitivas
Start Date: 10/10/2012
End Date: 20/11/2014
Budget: 70000 €
Leaders: Arno Formella
Funding Bodies: Xunta de Galicia [CN2012/231]
Title: Fase III del proyecto XatCobeo: Desarrollo de un modelo de vuelo del Cubesat seleccionado para el vuelo inaugural del lanzador Vega de la Agencia Espacial Europea y fase de operaciones
Start Date: 01/07/2010
End Date: 31/12/2011
Budget: 83000 €
Leaders: Fernando Aguado Agelet
Funding Bodies: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación [AYA2009-07959-E/ESP]
Title: XatCobeo CubeSat-HUMSAT
Start Date: 01/12/2009
End Date: 01/12/2010
Budget: 100000 €
Leaders: Fernando Aguado Agelet
Funding Bodies: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación [Fomento Nacional de Internacionalización de la I+D, ACI2009-0994]
Title: Fase II del proyecto XatCobeo: Desarrollo de un modelo de vuelo del Cubesat 1U seleccionado para el vuelo inaugural del lanzador Vega de la Agencia Espacial Europea
Start Date: 01/11/2009
End Date: 31/03/2011
Budget: 150000 €
Leaders: Fernando Aguado Agelet
Funding Bodies: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación [Acción Complementaria, AYA2009-06675E]
Title: Xatcobeo: Vega maiden flight educational payload
Start Date: 01/01/2008
End Date: 31/12/2011
Budget: 300000 €
Leaders: Fernando Aguado Agelet
Funding Bodies: Xunta de Galicia, Universidade de Vigo, Ministerio de Defensa, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Retegal, Raminova

Publications

Title: CubeSat Handbook (Part II: CubeSat missions analysis and design, 12. Onboard software)
Year: 2020
Editorial: Elsevier
Isbn: 9780128178843
Pages: 237 - 250
Type: Book Chapters
Authors: Santiago Iglesias Cofán, Arno Formella

Title: Humsat 2.0, a new generation of communication systems based on CubeSats constellations
Year: 2016
Pages: 54 - 56
City: London
Conference Name: 8th European CubeSat Symposium
Organizer: Knowledge Transfer Network and von Karman Institute
Type: Conference Contributions
Authors: Alberto González Muíño, Diego Nodar López, Fernando Aguado Agelet

Title: On orbit results of the HumSAT Payload, a data collection system based on CubeSats
Year: 2016
City: San Luis Obispo
Country: CA, USA
Conference Name: 2016 Cubesat developers' Workshop
Organizer: CalPoly
Type: Conference Contributions
Authors: Alberto González Muíño, Diego Nodar López, Fernando Aguado Agelet

Title: Flight results: Reliability and lifetime of the polymeric 3D-printed antenna deployment mechanism installed on Xatcobeo & Humsat-D
Year: 2015
Journal: Acta Astronautica
Editorial: Elsevier
Issn: 0094-5765
Volumen: 107
Pages: 290 - 300
Impact factor: 1.095 (Q1)
Base: JCR 2015
Area: Engineering, Aerospace
Type: Journal Articles
Authors: Alberto González Muíño, José Antonio Vilán Vilán, Fernando Aguado Agelet, López Estévez Miguel

Title: Preliminary noise measurements campaign carried out by HUMSAT-D during 2014
Year: 2015
City: Prague
Country: Czech Republic
Conference Name: ITU-R Conference and Workshop on the Small Satellite Regulation and Communication Systems
Organizer: ITU
Type: Conference Contributions
Authors: Alberto González Muíño, Diego Nodar López, Fernando Aguado Agelet

Title: Low-cost distributed user ground terminal network for LEO constellation
Year: 2014
City: Brasilia
Conference Name: 1st IAA Latin America Cubesat Workshop
Organizer: International Academy of Astronautics
Type: Conference Contributions
Authors: Diego Nodar López, Chantal Cappelletti, Gabriel Figueiro, Diego Hurtado, Bibiano Fernandez-Arruti García, Aarón Nercellas Ventas, Fernando Aguado Agelet

Title: HUMSAT/DEMO The first CubeSat for the HUMSAT constellation
Year: 2012
City: Nagayo
Country: Japan
Conference Name: UN/Japan Nano-Satelite Symposium
Type: Conference Contributions
Authors: Diego Nodar López, Antonio Castro, Jordi Puig Suari, Esaú Vicente Vivas, Werner Balogh, Werner Balogh, Fernando Aguado Agelet, Ricardo Tubío Pardavila

People Involved

Student Work

Title: Interpretación e visualización de datos de servizos via satélite da Constelación HumSAT
Year: 2016
Editorial: Universidade De Vigo
Type: Bachelor's Thesis
Authors: Alioth Antonio Fuentes Abellás

Title: Document Management System para el desarrollo de satélites
Year: 2014
Editorial: Universidade De Vigo [ENI-479]
Type: Master's Thesis
Authors: Yago Lirón Rodríguez