Clyde Space
Ltd
6.01 Kelvin Campus
West of
Scotland Science Park
Glasgow
UK
tel: +44 141 946 4440
fax: +44
141 945 1591
email: enquiries@clyde-space.com
url:
http://www.clyde-space.com
Clyde Space is a small,
spacecraft engineering company based in Glasgow, Scotland. We are dedicated to
serving the small satellite market, providing tailored and off-the-shelf
subsystem solutions.
Our strengths are our professionalism, technical
competence, flexibility, innovation, customer focus, low operating costs, and a
willingness to dream and create.
Our commitment is to delivering top
customer service, to meeting customer expectations and to providing high
quality, reliable, cost-effective products. Your success is our success, and we
back up our products with technical support throughout the duration of your
mission.
The Clyde Space team has a profound understanding of small
satellites and has a combined experience of over 15 years in the small
satellite industry and contribution to more than 25 small satellite
missions.
Clyde Space is located on the West of Scotland Science Park.
The site is at the foot of the Scottish Highlands in the Clyde Valley; an area
rich in engineering excellence.
The West of Scotland Science Park is in
close proximity to Glasgow International Airport and is purpose built for high
technology companies, such as Clyde Space. The site provides laboratory and
cleanroom facilities for flight hardware test and manufacturing. Environmental
test facilities are found within easy reach.
Clyde Space offers a suite
of hardware and design solutions for the Small Satellite market.
Clyde Space Small Satellite Power
Systems:
Our off-the-shelf power system products have excellent
performance specifications and extensive flight heritage. Our designs are
modular and have the flexibility to be easily configured to meet the
requirements of bespoke projects. Our three main small satellite power system
products are:
Nanosat Power
Our
NanoSat power system has been designed to meet the needs of low cost, low power
missions. The architecture is configured such that it can meet a variety of
solar panel configurations and is compatible with most rechargeable battery
systems, including lithium ion/polymer. A maximum power point tracking scheme
is employed to maximise precious array power and the system has the ability to
combine solar arrays of differing technologies and string lengths.
Track record: SNAP-1 and FalconSat-2
Smallsat
Power
Our SmallSat power system is modular and can be
configured to meet the requirements of missions for 30W to over 300W orbit
average. A maximum power point scheme provides a non-sequential, modular
interface to the solar arrays. The main power bus is fed directly from the
battery. This power system configuration is ideal for missions that experience
frequent eclipse periods.
The modular nature of the power system
electronics means that the system can be painlessly configured to meet the
requirements for a multitude of mission profiles and power levels. The system
is fully autonomous and inherently fault tolerant by virtue of its
simplicity.
Track record: Over 20 missions in various configurations,
including Cerise, Clementine, PICOSat, ALSat-1, BilSat and TOPSat.
Commsat Power
For missions with power hungry payloads,
our CommSat power system can manage over 40A at a regulated 50V. In its
standard configuration, this power system is compatible with missions
incorporating deployed, sun tracking arrays. The power system incorporates a
number of main elements, including a 16 section Sequential Switching Shunt
Regulator, hot redundant Battery Discharge Regulators, hot redundant Battery
Charge Regulators and Power Distribution Module. A fully redundant and majority
voted Main Error Amplifier provides a centralised control to the system and
regulation of the 50V bus. The system is compatible with lithium ion/polymer
battery technology.
Track record: GSTB-V2/A.
Clyde Space
additional design and production capability:
The Clyde Space team
can further meet the needs of your programme through the design, test and
production of additional systems for small satellites. These
include:
