Low-cost eps for nanosatellites constellation of belt and road countries

In order to reinforce relationship between belt and road countries, spreading technology and space education for students, making space cooperation to build Nanosatellites constellation are proposed by the project presented in this paper. The preliminary estimated number of Nanosatellites necessary to cover these areas within short period of time is eight Nanosatellites, which will communicate with principle Ground Station (GS), other support GSs and redundant GSs. The proposed payload of the Nanosatellite is dedicated to track trajectories of transportations system, which may then be used to control the traffic jam along Belt and Road countries from ground-based stations by receiving the Automatic Identification System (AIS). The main focus of the presented research within this paper investigates the field relating to the Electrical Power Systems (EPS) for these Nanosatellites. Moreover, the design of the EPS is based on low cost Components Off-The-Shelf (COTS) component with the consideration of space environment and the acquired experience by the launched CubeSats. A simulation model of the Satellite EPS with the solar panel as main source and the battery storage as the secondary source was developed in MATLAB-SIMULINK. The close objective of this work is to test this new low-cost EPS hardware with the calculated parameters obtained from simulations. By simulation results and experimental tests, the effectiveness of the proposed control for the EPS is proven with environment changes in SSO of the nanosatellite constellation.