Textures Cubesats

[T1234]

I saw a thread requesting cubesats so I had a go and made a cube and a longer type,packaged as UCGO cargo.Before release,what is the general opinion on the green texture,should it be a metalic but thought curcuit board would look good,here a few snapshots,or should I go super realistic with more detail?

 

[boogabooga]

gold foil

 

[elocoreloco]

yeah i agree with boogabooga and looks like a borg cube :hmm:

 

[N_Molson]

Not necessarily gold foil aka MLI which is expensive and a bit heavy but say lightweight aluminium panels.

Here's an example of cubesat architecture :

- On the core, batteries and circuit boards are mounted on racks.
- The chassis consists in a cubic structure with 'X' on the faces.
- On the faces are fixed aluminium panels that reflect a good deal of the solar heat flux and conduct the heat evenly on all the faces.
- Above the aluminium panels are mounted the solar panels that recharge the batteries, and also the possible scientific instrumentation.

 

[kuddel]

Hard to determine just by the pictures, but aren't they a bit big?
A 1U Cubesat should be 1 liter volume (10 cm cube; so 10×10×10 cm).
see [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat"]CubeSat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

The suggestions of N_Molson are best I think.
Anyone can add/exchange textures easy anyway.

 

[jroly]

Thanks T1234

There are so many varieties, I could see people skinning the Cubesats.

Most recent cubesats have been used for imagining like the flock1 and in the future 52% are expected to be used for Earth Observation/Remote Sensing, so orbiter cubesats should have a camera on them (http://www.sei.aero/eng/papers/uplo...osatellite_Market_Assessment_January_2014.pdf page 10).

 

[T1234]

I've remade them smaller and simpler and with 2 textures, one 1024 and a 256 if you wish to spawn a few and will not slow fps and launch them from ISS?

 

[jroly]

That is a really good picture, you should put that up for vote in the 2015 orbiter calendar thread. First thing I thought, OMG I am falling but at least around the earth. Wonder what would be worse, going splat or burning up in the atmosphere.

I think I would rather burn up in the atmosphere, at least it is not like my dreams where I am falling and you see the ground coming up to 10 meters to your face and wake up in shock.

 

[T1234]

They are ready for release,with a retrieval scenario.The pic is in the calendar thread.:thumbup:

 

[Interceptor]

Can you please release the green circuit board version UCGO cubesat too?it looks cool,and different.Thanks

 

[jroly]

The photocubesat has a parachute, interesting

 

[T1234]

Can you please release the green circuit board version UCGO cubesat too?it looks cool,and different.Thanks

I will upload some skins on OH.

jroly, Dous a parachute spawn when unpacking?:lol:

 

[jroly]

No, but I used scenario editor to lower it's orbit so it would decay and after burning through reentry it donned a parachute.

No Cubesats can survive reentry nor ever had parachutes, just surprised to see it happen.

 

[SolarLiner]

Are you sure it wasn't in its UCGO box? UCGO boxes have parachutes for air dropping operations.

 

[jroly]

I used the cubesat retrieval scenario. Both of them in orbit do it.

 

[SolarLiner]

The parachute is the one from the UCGO boxes. Maybe it's a bug, but I don't think that it comes from the cubesat directly.

 

[T1234]

Do outher unpacked cargos do the same? It dous look funny. :lol: