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Michael Zaberchik, Dan R. Lev, Eviatar Edlerman and Avner Kaidar
Adelis-SAMSON is a nano-satellite mission aimed at performing geo-location of target signals on Earth using a tight three-satellite formation in space. To maintain formation, each nano-satellite is equipped with a cold gas propulsion system. The design, ...
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Jakub Gramatyka, Przemyslaw Paszkiewicz, Damian Grabowski, Adrian Parzybut, Daria Bodych, Krzysztof Wróblewski, Pawel Surmacz and Krzysztof Pietrzak
The following paper presents the key design and test activities associated with the development of POLON?a green microsatellite propulsion module using 98% Hydrogen Peroxide (HTP). POLON, which stands for ?Polish Propulsion Module?, is the first step tow...
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Francesco Barato
Ablative-cooled hybrid rockets could potentially combine a similar versatility of a liquid propulsion system with a much simplified architecture. These characteristics make this kind of propulsion attractive, among others, for applications such as satell...
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Dillon O?Reilly, Georg Herdrich and Darren F. Kavanagh
Over 2500 active satellites are in orbit as of October 2020, with an increase of ~1000 smallsats in the past two years. Since 2012, over 1700 smallsats have been launched into orbit. It is projected that by 2025, there will be 1000 smallsats launched per...
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Benjamin St. Peter, Rainer A. Dressler, Yu-hui Chiu and Timothy Fedkiw
We report on the development of a software tool, the Electrospray Propulsion Engineering Toolkit (ESPET), that is currently being shared as a web application with the purpose to accelerate the development of electrospray thruster arrays for space propuls...
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Chengzhang Li, Bo Xu, Wanmeng Zhou and Qibo Peng
We propose two approaches based on feedforward control and model-predictive control, respectively, to solve the station-keeping problem of an electric-propulsion geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) satellite, whose thrusters are mounted on two robotic arms o...
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Massimo Panarotto, Olivia Borgue and Ola Isaksson
The higher satellite production rates expected in new megaconstellation scenarios involve radical changes in the way design trade-offs need to be considered by electric propulsion companies. In relative comparison, flexibility and qualification ability w...
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Kevin R. Gagne, M. Ryan McDevitt and Darren L. Hitt
This study focused on the development of a chemical micropropulsion system suitable for primary propulsion and/or attitude control for a nanosatellite. Due to the limitations and expense of current micropropulsion technologies, few nanosatellites with pr...
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Kevin R. Gagne, M. Ryan McDevitt and Darren L. Hitt
This study focused on the development of a chemical micropropulsion system suitable for primary propulsion and/or attitude control for a nanosatellite. Due to the limitations and expense of current micropropulsion technologies, few nanosatellites with pr...
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Akshay Reddy Tummala and Atri Dutta
CubeSats provide a cost effective means to perform scientific and technological studies in space. Due to their affordability, CubeSat technologies have been diversely studied and developed by educational institutions, companies and space organizations al...
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Akshay Reddy Tummala and Atri Dutta
CubeSats provide a cost effective means to perform scientific and technological studies in space. Due to their affordability, CubeSat technologies have been diversely studied and developed by educational institutions, companies and space organizations al...
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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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George-Cristian Potrivitu, Yufei Sun, Muhammad Wisnuh Aggriawan bin Rohaizat, Oleksii Cherkun, Luxiang Xu, Shiyong Huang and Shuyan Xu
The age of space electric propulsion arrived and found the space exploration endeavors at a paradigm shift in the context of new space. Mega-constellations of small satellites on low-Earth orbit (LEO) are proposed by many emerging commercial actors. Natu...
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Sandra Romero-Diez, Lydia Hantsche, Jason M. Pearl, Darren L. Hitt, M. Ryan McDevitt and Patrick C. Lee
In recent years, the maturation of small satellite technology has led to their adoption for a variety of space missions. The next generation of small satellite missions, however, will likely have the satellites operating in formations or ?constellations?...
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Janis Dalbins, Kristo Allaje, Hendrik Ehrpais, Iaroslav Iakubivskyi, Erik Ilbis, Pekka Janhunen, Joosep Kivastik, Maido Merisalu, Mart Noorma, Mihkel Pajusalu, Indrek Sünter, Antti Tamm, Hans Teras, Petri Toivanen, Boris Segret and Andris Slavinskis
Nanosatellites have established their importance in low-Earth orbit (LEO), and it is common for student teams to build them for educational and technology demonstration purposes. The next challenge is the technology maturity for deep-space missions. The ...
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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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Sandra Romero-Diez, Lydia Hantsche, Jason M. Pearl, Darren L. Hitt, M. Ryan McDevitt and Patrick C. Lee
In recent years, the maturation of small satellite technology has led to their adoption for a variety of space missions. The next generation of small satellite missions, however, will likely have the satellites operating in formations or ?constellations?...
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Athul Pradeepkumar Girija, Sarag J. Saikia and James M. Longuski
Small satellite constellations in multiple-inclination, low-circular orbits around Mars and Venus have the potential to perform a range of high-value science investigations within cost-constrained missions. A major challenge for small satellites is that ...
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Ben Campbell and Lawrence Dale Thomas
This article describes a new alternative approach to satellite constellation deployment by incorporating momentum exchange tethers (METs). Traditional methods of deploying satellite constellations have limitations, typically involving costly propulsion s...
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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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