CubeSats are tiny satellites with increasing capabilities. They have been used for more than a decade by universities to train students on space technologies, in a hands-on project aiming at building, launching and operating a real satellite. Still today, one shortcoming of CubeSats is their poor ability to transmit large amounts of data to the ground. A possible way to overcome this limitation relies on optical communications. Universite Cote d'Azur is studying the feasibility of a student's CubeSat whose main goal is to transmit data with an optical link to the ground at the moderate rate of 1 kb/s (or better). In this paper, we will present the current state of the project and its future developments.
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@article{arxiv.1808.09848,
title = {The Nice Cube (Nice3) nanosatellite project},
author = {F. Millour and S. Ottogalli and M. Maamri and A. Stibbe and F. Ferrero and L. Rolland and S. Rebeyrolle and A. Marcotto and K. Agabi and M. Beaulieu and M. Benabdesselam and J. -B. Caillau and F. Cauneau and L. Deneire and F. Mady and D. Mary and A. Memin and G. Metris and J. -B. Pomet and O. Preis and R. Staraj and E. Ait Lachgar and D. Baltazar and B. Gao and M. Deroo and B. Gieudes and M. Jiang and T. Livio de Miranda Pinto Filho and M. Languery and O. Petiot and A. Thevenon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09848},
year = {2018}
}
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12 pages, 4 figures, proceeding from the "complex days" workshop