Power Budget

Power subsystem contents

Power Budget for Normal Operations

Power Budget

Power Analysis for Detumbling


Detumbling Power Budget

Low Power mode

Low Power Mode Power Budget

Survival Power mode

Survival Power Mode Power Budget

Critical hold Power mode

Critical Hold Power Budget

Component-wise power timeline

The Matlab code given below can be used to generate the component wise power timeline for the worst case power consumption over 3 orbits.

Code to generate timeline

Power for deployment mechanisms

There are two deployable mechanisms on the satellite, one for the antenna and the other for the solar arrays. They consume a maximum of 12W together once for the burn wire mechanism. The max. expected current is 1.6-1.9 A. This requires further testing in Phase C.