Thanks!
The Gs are limited to 3 Gs, which seems pretty standard. We don't really
have a good feel for the vibration environment - just some calculations
based on standard solid rocket thrust to noise equations. The rest of the
environment should be similar to other vehicles.
We don't plan on offering any interface for the payloads to electrically
connect to the launch vehicle, though. Is that a show stopper?
-David Summers
On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 11:17 AM Ed LeBouthillier <codemonky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
A question for all you guys out there building satellites:
[...]
What would make or break this vehicle? (Obviously, until we
fly we have nothing, etc.)
Although not a satellite builder, I would think that you need to worry
about environmental factors.
Many of the existing cubesats are going on existing launch vehicles and
therefore, I'll guess that your vehicle needs to provide a launch
environment very similar to other existing launch vehicles.
That means that max vibration, temperatures, max experienced G's etc are
significant. If you don't meet those maximum environmental conditions, then
a cubesat built for these other vehicles may not be able to fly on your
vehicle.
So, look at the Payload User's Guides (PUGs) for other existing vehicles
for their flight environmental conditions and make sure your vehicle can
meet similar conditions. Additionally, some of the larger vehicles can
provide "services" like ejection/start signals.