Mechatronic design and construction of a five axes satellite simulator

This article describes the construction of a five spacecraft flight simulator based on an air bearing system, which was designed and instrumented in university of Isfahan laboratory to evaluate and to perform research in the field of Attitude Determination and Control Systems for spacecraft. This simulator is modeled in Autodesk-Inventor software package to design the simulator component precisely. The hardware and software components of the testbed are detailed in this article. the constraints for the construction and final realization of this attitude simulator testbed are depicted. It describes all modifications needed to reconfigure the simulator system testbed.