AAC Clyde Space, a New Space company that specializes in small satellite technologies and services that enable businesses, governments, and educational organizations to access high-quality, timely data from space has introduced a new fully autonomous Attitude Determination and Control System for small satellites

The iADCS200 from AAC Clyde Space is a fully autonomous integrated ADCS system aimed at small satellites with a 3U-CubeSat form factor or similar. It is a joint development of AAC Clyde Space and Berlin Space Technologies.

The versatile iADCS200 solution was designed for the CubeSat form factor with modularity in mind to fit various mission requirements. The series is equipped with three magnetorquers and can be further upgraded with the RW210 series reaction wheels, one or more ST200 star trackers, external sun sensors, magnetometers, or a precision IMU.

The iADCS200 can be combined with an optional external magnetometer, precision gyro, sun sensors, or GNSS receivers.

Flexibility

The iADCS200 is delivered with a PC104-compatible footprint, consuming the space of 2 standard CubeSat PCB, or a total of 0.3 U. The CubeSat connector is fed through, allowing designers to place this system anywhere in the CubeSat stack with plug-and-play ready design.

Control Algorithms 

The iADCS200 features an internal fire-and-forget controller, which frees up the host processor’s workload, providing nadir, sun, and target-pointing modes, as well as backup detumbling, and control system has target pointing, sun pointing, nadir pointing, fast spin mode (max 200° using magnetorquers) and de-tumbling.

Heritage

The plug-and-play iADCS200 range of fully integrated attitude control systems is flight-proven and has been flying in various modular configurations since 2017.

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