{"id":38258,"date":"2023-01-31T11:21:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T10:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asi.it\/?page_id=38258"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:28:53","slug":"chips","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.asi.it\/en\/technologies-and-engineering\/micro-and-nanosatellites\/alcor-program\/chips\/","title":{"rendered":"CHIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>CHIPS (Cubesat with HIgh Performance for Skyhopper)<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<em>Sector: Astrophysics<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>Number of satellites<\/em><em>:<\/em> 1\r\n\r\n<em>Form factor:<\/em> 12 U\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CHIPS mission foresees a 12U satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) (between 475 and 590 km) equipped with an infrared telescope with the focal plane chamber actively cooled. CHIPS has the following scientific goals: identify the Gamma Ray Bursts originating in the early Universe, identify infrared counterparts of gravitational wave sources, discover potentially habitable Earth-like planets around nearby cold stars, study the near-Earth Asteroid family. CHIPS&#8217; ambitious goals require it to overcome several technological challenges in its CubeSat design. Specifically, the satellite must: respond rapidly to triggers, re-targeting within 20 minutes while maintaining stable pointing; achieve precise attitude control using mini star trackers and reaction wheels, enabling a rotation speed of 0.5 deg\/s and a pointing accuracy (pointing RPE) better than 4 arc seconds; ensure continuous communication, through the IRIDIUM constellation, to receive trigger signals and download preliminary scientific data and feature a dedicated S-band radio antenna to provide complete data transfer.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CHIPS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CHIPS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CHIPS.jpg 1914w, https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CHIPS-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CHIPS-768x905.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CHIPS-869x1024.jpg 869w, https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CHIPS-1304x1536.jpg 1304w, https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CHIPS-1738x2048.jpg 1738w, https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CHIPS-640x754.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CHIPS-500x589.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Proposing team:<\/em> INAF (Prime), Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHIPS (Cubesat with HIgh Performance for Skyhopper)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":37769,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38258","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-micro-and-nanosatellites"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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