System Design for Attitude and Orbit Control System for DelFFI Formation Flying Mission

Abstract

This thesis designs system architecture for DelFFi nanosatellite. The objective of the DelFFi mission is to demonstrate autonomous formation flying between two identical CubeSats, named Delta and Phi. The thesis updates existing requirements and develops a final set of requirements for the DelFFi mission. Secondly, the thesis considers hardware problems with the Delfi-n3Xt mission and analyzes formation flying mission hardware architectures. Furthermore, it proposes new hardware architecture for DelFFi mission. Finally, the thesis analyzes software requirements and develops new software architecture for DelFFi attitude and orbit control system.