SSETO—Small Satellite for Exoplanetary Transit Observation |
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Authors: | Johannes Mathies Steffen Mauceri Lukas Pfeiffer Marco Vietze Hans-Peter Roeser Felix BoehringerMichael Lengowski |
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Institution: | Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 29, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany |
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Abstract: | SSETO is the result of a phase-A study in context of the small satellite program of the University of Stuttgart that demonstrates the capability of a university institute to build a small satellite with a budget of 5 million Euro. The satellite will be capable of observing exoplanets in a Neptune–Earth scale and obtaining data of interstellar dust. Due to a system failure of NASA?s Kepler mission, there is currently (October 2013) a lack of satellites searching for exoplanets. This paper details the design of subsystems and payload, as well as the required test tasks in accordance with the mission profile at a conceptional level. The costs for standard spacecraft testing and integration tasks are included, but not those of launch, ground support, operations and engineer working hours. |
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Keywords: | University small satellite Exoplanet Transit Cosmic dust Compact optical telescope |
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