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Fabrizio Stesina
Miniaturized electric propulsion systems are one of the main technologies that could increase interest in CubeSats for future space missions. However, the integration of miniaturized propulsion systems in modern CubeSat platforms presents some issues due...
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Abdulaziz Alanazi and Jeremy Straub
CubeSats are widely used by universities and research institutions all over the world. Their popularity is generally attributed to the use of low-cost components, free student labor and simple design. They have been shown to encourage Science, Technology...
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Ann Mary Eapen, Sidi Ahmed Bendoukha, Reem Al-Ali and Abdulrahman Sulaiman
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of DEWASAT-2, a 6U CubeSat designed for low Earth remote sensing applications. DEWASAT-2 is equipped with two payloads: a high-resolution camera for Earth observation and a spectrometer for detecting greenhouse ga...
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Syed Zafar Abbas Mehdi, Aiffah Mohd Ali and Safiah Zulkifli
One of the challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to provide connectivity to devices around the globe. Long Range (LoRa) is one of the most practical technologies due to its low-power and long-range capabilities to be used by the Low Earth Orbit (...
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Claudio Bottiglieri, Felice Piccolo, Carmine Giordano, Fabio Ferrari and Francesco Topputo
In this paper, a practical approach to trajectory design for asteroid exploration missions with CubeSats is presented. When applied trajectories are sought, operative concerns and uncertainties affecting the spacecraft dynamics must be considered during ...
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Cristiana Francisco, Ricardo Henriques and Susana Barbosa
The ionosphere is a fundamental component of the Earth?s atmosphere, impacting human activities such as communication transmissions, navigation systems, satellite functions, power network systems, and natural gas pipelines, even endangering human life or...
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Mario F. Palos, Pekka Janhunen, Petri Toivanen, Martin Tajmar, Iaroslav Iakubivskyi, Aldo Micciani, Nicola Orsini, Johan Kütt, Agnes Rohtsalu, Janis Dalbins, Hans Teras, Kristo Allaje, Mihkel Pajusalu, Lorenzo Niccolai, Marco Bassetto, Giovanni Mengali, Alessandro A. Quarta, Nickolay Ivchenko, Joan Stude, Andris Vaivads, Antti Tamm and Andris Slavinskisadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
The electric solar wind sail, or E-sail, is a novel deep space propulsion concept which has not been demonstrated in space yet. While the solar wind is the authentic operational environment of the electric sail, its fundamentals can be demonstrated in th...
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Giorgio Capovilla, Enrico Cestino and Leonardo Reyneri
Current CubeSats usually exhibit a low structural mass efficiency and a low internal volume for their payloads. The present work aims to propose an advanced structural architecture for CubeSats that addresses the issues of low structural mass efficiency ...
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Stefano Carletta, Augusto Nascetti, Sagar S. Gosikere Matadha, Lorenzo Iannascoli, Thiago Baratto de Albuquerque, Nithin Maipan Davis, Luigi Schirone, Gabriele Impresario, Simone Pirrotta and John R. Brucato
AstroBio CubeSat is a mission funded by the Italian Space Agency aimed at validating novel lab-on-chip technology, that would enable the use of micro- and nanosatellites as autonomous orbiting laboratories for research in astrobiology. This 3U CubeSat is...
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Marco Lombardo, Marco Zannoni, Igor Gai, Luis Gomez Casajus, Edoardo Gramigna, Riccardo Lasagni Manghi, Paolo Tortora, Valerio Di Tana, Biagio Cotugno, Simone Simonetti, Silvio Patruno and Simone Pirrotta
In the framework of the Artemis-1 mission, 10 CubeSats will be released, including the 6U CubeSat ArgoMoon, built by the Italian company Argotec and coordinated by the Italian Space Agency. The primary goal of ArgoMoon is to capture images of the Interim...
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Youngbum Song, Sang-Young Park, Geuk-Nam Kim and Dong-Gu Kim
For the low-cost improvement of laser communication, which is critical for various applications such as surveillance systems, a study was conducted on relative distance control based on orbital drift rate modulations for multiple CubeSats during formatio...
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Sarah Walsh, David Murphy, Maeve Doyle, Jack Reilly, Joseph Thompson, Rachel Dunwoody, Jessica Erkal, Gabriel Finneran, Gianluca Fontanesi, Joseph Mangan, Fergal Marshall, Lána Salmon, Daithí de Faoite, Lorraine Hanlon, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, David McKeown, William O?Connor, Alexey Uliyanov, Ronan Wall and Sheila McBreen
The Educational Irish Research Satellite (EIRSAT-1) is a 2U CubeSat developed at University College Dublin. The project aims to build, test, launch, and operate Ireland?s first satellite and to perform in-orbit demonstrations of three novel payloads deve...
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Aaesha Almazrouei, Aaliya Khan, Abdullah Almesmari, Ahmed Albuainain, Ahmed Bushlaibi, Ali Al Mahmood, Ali Alqaraan, Alya Alhammadi, Amina AlBalooshi, Ashraf Khater, Aysha Alharam, Basel AlTawil, Bashayer Alkhzaimi, Ebrahim Almansoori, Firas Jarrar, Hamzeh Issa, Heyam Alblooshi, Muhammad Taha Ansari, Nouf Alzaabi, Nouf Braik, Panagiotis Dimitropoulos, Prashanth Marpu, Reem Alialali, Ruqayya Alhammadi, Rzan Al-haddad, Salama Almazrouei, Shaima Bahumaish, Vu Thu and Yaqoob AlqassabaddShow full author listremoveHide full author list
Terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGF) are intense and prompt bursts of X- and gamma-rays of up to 100 MeV of energy. Typically associated with thunderstorm activity, TGFs are produced by bremsstrahlung effects of electrons accelerated in strong electric fi...
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Stefano Casini, Iosto Fodde, Bert Monna, Angelo Cervone and Eberhard Gill
The purpose of this work is to present a novel CubeSat architecture, aimed to explore Near Earth Asteroids. The fast growth in small satellite commercial-off-the-shelf technologies, which characterized the last decade of space industry, is exploited to d...
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Fabrizio Stesina
The release and retrieval of a CubeSat from a big spacecraft is useful for the external inspection and monitoring of the big spacecraft. However, docking maneuvers during the retrieval are challenging since safety constraints and high performance must be...
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Alexander Kramer, Philip Bangert and Klaus Schilling
The electric propulsion system NanoFEEP was integrated and tested in orbit on the UWE-4 satellite, which marks the first successful demonstration of an electric propulsion system on board a 1U CubeSat. In-orbit characterization measurements of the heatin...
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Giorgio Capovilla, Enrico Cestino, Leonardo M. Reyneri and Giulio Romeo
CubeSats usually adopt aluminum alloys for primary structures, and a number of studies exist on Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) primary structures. The internal volume of a spacecraft is usually occupied by battery arrays, reducing the volume avai...
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Fabrizio Stesina and Sabrina Corpino
Given the role of Cubesats in the new space economy, a statistically relevant number of CubeSats have flown, and considering the high percentage of failed missions, the investigation of in-orbit anomalies becomes of paramount importance. It is rare to fi...
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Ravi teja Nallapu, Graham Dektor, Nalik Kenia, James Uglietta, Shota Ichikawa, Mercedes Herreras-Martinez, Akshay Choudhari, Aman Chandra, Stephen Schwartz, Erik Asphaug and Jekanthan Thangavelautham
The Martian satellites Phobos and Deimos hold many unanswered questions that may provide clues to the origin of Mars. These moons are low Δv" role="presentation">????v
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João P. Monteiro, Rui M. Rocha, Alexandre Silva, Rúben Afonso and Nuno Ramos
Large-scale space projects rely on a thorough Assembly, Integration, and Verification (AIV) process to provide the upmost reliability to spacecraft. While this has not traditionally been the case with CubeSats, their increasing role in space science and ...
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