Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Ball Aerospace, with its successful background and strong interest in low-cost lightweight satellites, is studying the designs of current technology satellites for a variety of launchers (e.g., STS/GAS, Pershing, Scout, Poseidon, Conestoga, Titan 11, ILV, and Delta II). Ball Aerospace has completed the design of a current technology, multi-mission, low-cost Scout-compatible satellite. This paper summarizes the system design features and capabilities of this Ball Scout Satellite (BSS). The BSS is designed to accommodate a wide range of Earth and celestially oriented missions, both spinning and 3-axis stabilized. The BSS design provides a marked improvement in payload support capabilities (mass, power, data rate, pointing, interfaces, flexibility, reliability, etc.) than was previously available with earlier Scout satellites, and at a lower cost in current-year dollars.
DOI: 10.26077/h47r-wk81
Authors: Stuart, J.R., Taylor, D.L.
Institution: Ball (United States)
Language: English
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W61530757