The Flight System (FS) meets mission requirements by delivering the fully integrated hub and nodes to the science orbit with margin.
Hub
- NGSP leverages flight-proven ESPAStar platform heritage
- Delivers 8 nodes to the science orbit
- Provides swarm-to-ground communication
Space Comm System (SCS)
- Provides reliable hub-to-mode command, telemetry, relative ranging, and time correlation signals
- Wide-coverage quadrifilar helixes allow hub-to-node comm/ranging without pointing
Nodes
- Nodes are BCT proven commercial bus
- BCT has 28S/C on-orbit; 30 timely deliveries 2021
- Enables multipoint particle and field measurements
- Electric prop system maintains swarm configuration
