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Andris Slavinskis, Mario F. Palos, Janis Dalbins, Pekka Janhunen, Martin Tajmar, Nickolay Ivchenko, Agnes Rohtsalu, Aldo Micciani, Nicola Orsini, Karl Mattias Moor, Sergei Kuzmin, Marcis Bleiders, Marcis Donerblics, Ikechukwu Ofodile, Johan Kütt, Tõnis Eenmäe, Viljo Allik, Jaan Viru, Pätris Halapuu, Katriin Kristmann, Janis Sate, Endija Briede, Marius Anger, Katarina Aas, Gustavs Plonis, Hans Teras, Kristo Allaje, Andris Vaivads, Lorenzo Niccolai, Marco Bassetto, Giovanni Mengali, Petri Toivanen, Iaroslav Iakubivskyi, Mihkel Pajusalu and Antti TammaddShow full author listremoveHide full author list
The electric solar wind sail, or E-sail, is a propellantless interplanetary propulsion system concept. By deflecting solar wind particles off their original course, it can generate a propulsive effect with nothing more than an electric charge. The high-v...
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Petri Toivanen, Pekka Janhunen, Jarmo Kivekäs and Meri Mäkelä
A new method of producing robust multi-wire tethers for Coulomb drag applications was developed. The multi-wire structure required for redundancy against the micrometeoroid flux of the space environment is realised through the method of wire twist bondin...
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Weijun Wang, Yuxin Cui, Chenkun Qi, Yanyan Cao, Yuhua Zhang, Chongfeng Zhang and Shigang Wang
In this paper, a pawl composite linkage transfer mechanism is designed for the automatic in-orbit sample transfer mission of Chang?E-5 lunar sample return mission, which can realize the sample container in-orbit transfer under various critical constraint...
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Maxime Hubert Delisle, Olga-Orsalia Christidi-Loumpasefski, Baris C. Yalçin, Xiao Li, Miguel Olivares-Mendez and Carol Martinez
The proposed hybrid-compliant concept is meant to be part of a space debris capture system.
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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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Ye Dai, Chaofang Xiang, Yuan Zhang, Yupeng Jiang, Wenyin Qu and Qihao Zhang
With space technology development, the spatial robotic arm plays an increasingly important role in space activities. Spatial robotic arms can effectively replace humans to complete in-orbit service tasks. The trajectory planning is the basis of robotic a...
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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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Farhan Abdullah, Kei-ichi Okuyama, Isai Fajardo and Naoya Urakami
The low Earth orbit (LEO) environment exposes spacecraft to factors that can degrade the dimensional stability of the structure. Carbon Fibre/Polyether Ether Ketone (CF/PEEK) can limit such degradations. However, there are limited in-orbit data on the pe...
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Xuedong Li, Yuan Xie, Yumo Tian and Fengjiang An
Extravehicular activity (EVA) is a key point and a difficult point for manned spaceflight tasks, as well as an inevitable trend in the development of the manned spaceflight industry. Equipment maintenance, load installation, and extravehicular routing in...
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Shankar Bhattarai, Ji-Seong Go, Hongrae Kim and Hyun-Ung Oh
The structural safety of solar cells mounted on deployable solar panels in the launch vibration environment is a significant aspect of a successful CubeSat mission. This paper presents a novel highly damped deployable solar panel module that is effective...
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Florio Dalla Vedova, Pierre Morin, Thibault Roux, Roberta Brombin, Alberto Piccinini and Nigel Ramsden
The paper introduces and describes the recent and still ongoing development activities performed in Luxembourg for In-Orbit Attach Mechanisms for (Drag) Sails Modules to be operated from Space Tugs. After some preparatory work aiming at understanding the...
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Florio Dalla Vedova, Pierre Morin, Thibault Roux, Roberta Brombin, Alberto Piccinini and Nigel Ramsden
The paper introduces and describes the recent and still ongoing development activities performed in Luxembourg for In-Orbit Attach Mechanisms for (Drag) Sails Modules to be operated from Space Tugs. After some preparatory work aiming at understanding the...
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Huaibo Yao, Yixin Huang, Wenlai Ma, Lei Liang and Yang Zhao
Joints are widely used in large deployable structures but show semi-rigidity due to performance degradation and some nonlinear factors affecting the structure?s dynamic characteristics. This paper investigates the influence of semi-rigid joints on the ch...
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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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Jesus Gonzalez-Llorente, Aleksander A. Lidtke, Ken Hatanaka, Ryo Kawauchi and Kei-Ichi Okuyama
As small satellites are becoming more widespread for new businesses and applications, the development time, failure rate and cost of the spacecraft must be reduced. One of the systems with the highest cost and the most frequent failure in the satellite i...
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Giacomo Borelli, Gabriella Gaias and Camilla Colombo
In recent years, the interest in proximity operations to uncooperative and non-collaborative objects has been growing and and demanding for specific technology advances to tackle these challenging cases of in-orbit servicing and removal missions. Indeed,...
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Zhiqian Zhang, Lei Liu, Lin Quan, Guohong Shen, Rui Zhang, Yuqi Jiang, Yuxiong Xue and Xianghua Zeng
Accurately predicting proton flux in the space radiation environment is crucial for satellite in-orbit management and space science research. This paper proposes a proton flux prediction method based on a hybrid neural network. This method is a predictiv...
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Yongchao Hui, Yuehua Cheng, Bin Jiang and Lei Yang
This research presents a novel data-based multi-parameter health assessment method to meet the growing need for the in-orbit health assessment of satellite components. This method analyzed changes in component health status by calculating distribution de...
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Yong Zhao, Qingguang Zhao, Fei Yang, Honghao Yue, Xiaoze Yang and Huaiyu Li
The launch method of one arrow with multiple satellites can greatly shorten the time for constellation networking and improve the deployment efficiency. A new compression and separation device with a four-bar perimeter arrangement is proposed for multi-s...
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Zhu Zhu, He Liao, Haibo Tu, Xiaochun Duan and Yanbin Zhao
Atom-interferometry gravity gradiometry has been developed as a promising technique for future gravity gradiometric missions after GOCE due to its greater sensitivity in micro-gravity environments and constant performance over the measurement bandwidth. ...
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