A Student Get-Away-Special Space Shuttle Experiment to Demonstrate Cold-Cathode Field Emitter Technology in Space (FEGI). NANOSAT FY03

Abstract

This document describes the design of and preparations undertaken to close out work on the Field Emission Get-Away-Special Investigation (FEGI) project. Due to the cancellation of the NASA Get-Away-Special Program (GAS) following the Columbia space shuttle accident, work on the FEGI project terminated with the fabrication and testing of the Engineering Design Unit (EDU). Although FEGI did not fly as a GAS payload, the project has provided valuable personnel training, systems design, test data, and assembled prototypes for future S3FL projects, including mFEGI (Modular-FEGI), FENIX (Field Emission NanosatellIte EXperiment), and TSATT (Tethered SATellite Testbed). FEGI will continue to be used to provide useful examples and lessons for students working on future S3FL projects.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 09, 2006
Accession Number
ADA455647

Entities

People

  • Brian Gilchrist
  • Chris Deline
  • Dave Morris
  • Rafael Ramos
  • Tom Liu

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Electron Emission
  • Emission
  • Emitters
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Fabrication
  • Field Emission
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Measurement
  • Microelectromechanical Systems
  • Space Shuttles
  • Space Systems
  • Spacecraft
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster
  • Space - Satellites