SATELLITE
Palamede is cubic-shaped with sides of 40 cm.
Its structure, totally realised in aluminium alloy, is composed by one machined plates, suitably stiffened with ribs, and five aluminum honeycomb panels.
The electronic box is in central position and it has a thickness of 10 mm to protect all the electronic boards from the effects of the space environment.
The satellite electronics is powered by five solar arrays placed on lateral sides, when Palamede is in Sunlight, and by a Li-ion battery when the satellite is in eclipse.
The CCD camera is placed on the lower plane of the electronic box, i.e. the nominally Earth facing side.
Six Sun sensors, one three-axis magnetometer and three magneto-torquers constitute the ADCS.
The electronic box contains all the electronic boards, mainly based on the PC-104 standard, ORBCOMM radiomodem and GPS board.
In the following section each subsystem will be presented.