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Soobin Jeon, Sang-Young Park and Geuk-Nam Kim
CANYVAL-C is a formation-flying mission that demonstrates a coronagraph utilizing two CubeSats. The coronagraph is a space telescope that blocks sunlight to examine the overcast regions around the sun. It is composed of optical and occult segments. Two s...
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Jifei Ye, Sibo Wang, Hao Chang, Yanji Hong, Nanlei Li, Weijing Zhou, Baoyu Xing, Bangdeng Du and Chengyin Xie
Laser micro-thrust technology is a type of propulsion that uses a laser beam to ablate a propellant such as a metal or plastic. The ablated material is expelled out the back of the spacecraft, generating thrust. The technology has the advantages of high ...
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Giulio De Angelis, Stefano Carletta, Mauro Pontani and Paolo Teofilatto
Exploration of Venus is recently driven by the interest of the scientific community in understanding the evolution of Earth-size planets, and is leading the implementation of missions that can benefit from new design techniques and technology. In this wo...
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Yuxian Yue, Jinyue Geng, Guanhua Feng and Wenhao Li
Very-low Earth orbit (VLEO) space below 200 km is essential for high-quality communications and near-Earth space environment detection. Due to the significant atmospheric drag, orbital maintenance is required for spacecraft staying here. Based on air-bre...
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Ahmed Mahfouz, Gabriella Gaias, D. M. K. K. Venkateswara Rao and Holger Voos
In this paper, the problem of autonomous optimal absolute orbit keeping for a satellite mission in Low Earth Orbit using electric propulsion is considered. The main peculiarity of the approach is to support small satellite missions in which the platform ...
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Dongbo Liu and Li Chen
The on-orbit operation of insertion and extraction of space robots is a technology essential to the assembly and maintenance in orbit, satellite fuel filling, failed satellite recovery, especially modular in-orbit assembly of micro-spacecraft. Therefore,...
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Riccardo Santoro, Marco Pustorino and Mauro Pontani
This study considers the problem of injecting a spacecraft into an elliptic, repeating-ground-track orbit about Mars, starting from a 4-sol highly elliptical orbit, which is a typical Martian capture orbit, entered at the end of the interplanetary transf...
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Piotr Palma, Karol Seweryn and Tomasz Rybus
The success of space missions like capture-and-deorbit or capture-and-service relies on the ability of the capturing satellite to establish a stable mechanical connection by its gripping tool with the object being intercepted. Most of the potential objec...
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Bo Ren, Yu Jiang, Hengnian Li and Chunsheng Jiang
This paper focuses on the existence and control of particular types of orbits around asteroid 4 Vesta, including Sun-synchronous orbits, orbits at the critical inclination, repeating ground-track orbits, and stationary orbits. J2, J3, and J4 terms are co...
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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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Bing Hua, Shengjun Zhong, Yunhua Wu and Zhiming Chen
To solve the problem of communication delays and topology changes and achieve a high-precision formation configuration control index in the flight control of SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite formations, this paper studies the consistency cooperat...
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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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Camilo Riano-Rios, Alberto Fedele and Riccardo Bevilacqua
In this paper, relative orbit and attitude adaptive controllers are integrated to perform roto-translational maneuvers for CubeSats equipped with a Drag Maneuvering Device (DMD). The DMD enables the host CubeSat with modulation of aerodynamic forces/torq...
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Soontorn Odngam, Chaiyut Preecha, Prapaiwan Sanwong, Woramet Thongtan and Jiraphon Srisertpol
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Justin R. Mansell, John M. Bellardo, Bruce Betts, Barbara Plante and David A. Spencer
The propellantless thrust of solar sails makes them capable of entirely new classes of missions compared to conventional or electric engines. Initiated in 2010, the Planetary Society?s LightSail program sought to advance solar sail technology with the fl...
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Giordana Bucchioni and Mario Innocenti
The paper presents the development of a fully-safe, automatic rendezvous strategy between a passive vehicle and an active one orbiting around the Earth?Moon L2 Lagrangian point. This is one of the critical phases of future missions to permanently return ...
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Sangwon Lee, Sang-Young Park, Jeongbae Kim, Min-Ho Ka and Youngbum Song
This study designs a multistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) formation-flying system for very-high-resolution stripmap imaging (VHRSI) using manufacturable SAR microsatellites. Multistatic SAR formation specifications for VHRSI are derived based on th...
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Yongyuan Li, Guang Sun and Hongwei Han
Aerocapture, the action of delivering a vehicle from a hyperbolic orbit to a planetary orbit by using the aerodynamic force, could potentially lower fuel consumption. By controlling the direction and size of the aerodynamic force, the vehicle can accurat...
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Yini Zhong and Rui Zhong
One of the important applications of the space tethered system is formation flying. To satisfy the requirement for interferometry of ground targets by remote-sensing satellites, a new type of tethered solar sail spacecraft has been proposed in recent res...
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Kathiravan Thangavel, Pablo Servidia, Roberto Sabatini, Pier Marzocca, Haytham Fayek, Santiago Husain Cerruti, Martin España and Dario Spiller
Space-based Earth Observation (EO) systems have undergone a continuous evolution in the twenty-first century. With the help of space-based Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), specially Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), their applicability across the w...
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