Successful Development of a Portable Didactic Satellite for Training and Research in Satellite Technology

This paper depicts the global specifications and the successful results for a cost-effective system developed for training purposes in the small satellite technology field. The didactic satellite subsystems were fully designed, manufactured and tested at the Institute of Engineering UNAM. Information about intelligent subsystems for the portable didactic satellite (PDS), its operations software as well as successful results obtained in laboratory operations for the first PDS prototype are exposed in this paper.