ADCS for a 50 kg MEO Communications Satellite

Designed the attitude determination and control system (ADCS) for a 50 kg MEO communications satellite as part of the winning team at the V4 Space Summer School. The work covered requirements, deployment planning, AOCS architecture, actuator selection, and technical budgeting.

FocusADCS requirements, sensing, control, and implementation trade-offs

Mission50 kg MEO communications satellite concept

OutputsReport, deployment plan, and AOCS schematic

ValueSystems-engineering thinking for a complete spacecraft subsystem

Project Overview

The ADCS design went beyond individual sensor and actuator selection — it required fitting components into a mission-specific architecture with credible mass, power, and performance budgets for the MEO orbit environment.

What The Report Covers

Requirements, spacecraft geometry and inertia, disturbance torques, ADS and ACS concepts, reaction wheel and magnetorquer sizing, onboard-computer needs, and mass and power budgeting.

Why It Matters

This page shows a more systems-oriented side of my work: organizing a spacecraft subsystem so that performance, architecture, and implementation all stay connected.

Space Policy Training

Alongside the satellite design work, the programme included training modules on the V4 space policy framework, European space commercialization, and the role of Poland in emerging space manufacturing.

Project Media

Architecture views and the full ADCS report.

V4 Space Camp event image — Group photo of all three competing teams at the V4 Space Summer School.

Deployment plan graphic — Deployment planning for the spacecraft concept.

AOCS schematic — AOCS architecture view from the project materials.

Report

ADCS Technical Report

The full report documents the requirements, subsystem sizing, and control-system choices behind the design.

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