Table 6 Summary of the challenges associated with attaining an appropriate balance between the mission requirements and the limited resources of the small satellite and the steps taken to address them
Challenges | Solutions |
|---|---|
Power requirements and weight | Comprehensive management from the component level to the system level |
Single nonredundant components | |
SpaceWire ring-type network | |
High-speed data sharing for S-WPIA | |
Amount of data | Intelligent mission processors to compress the mission data from each instrument |
Quality versus limited schedule and cost | Flexible standardized bus |
Amount of mission data obtained in the operation | Optimized operation based on the graph-theoretic approach |