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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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Kaartikey Misra
Liquid propellants are fast becoming attractive for pulsed plasma thrusters due to their high efficiency and low contamination issues. However, the complete plasma interaction and acceleration processes are still not very clear. Present paper develops a ...
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Kaartikey Misra
Liquid propellants are fast becoming attractive for pulsed plasma thrusters due to their high efficiency and low contamination issues. However, the complete plasma interaction and acceleration processes are still not very clear. Present paper develops a ...
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Ahmed E. S. Nosseir, Angelo Cervone and Angelo Pasini
Current research trends have advanced the use of ?green propellants? on a wide scale for spacecraft in various space missions; mainly for environmental sustainability and safety concerns. Small satellites, particularly micro and nanosatellites, evolved f...
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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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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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Wonjae Yoon, Vikas Khandu Bhosale and Hosung Yoon
The development of propulsion systems based on green propellants, as an alternative to hydrazines, has been gaining interest within the space community. The study of Ammonium Dinitramide (ADN)-based liquid monopropellant, which is low-toxic and can deliv...
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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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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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Geuk-Nam Kim, Sang-Young Park, Sehyun Seong, Jae-Young Choi, Sang-Kook Han, Young-Eon Kim, Suyong Choi, Joohee Lee, Sungmoon Lee, Han-Gyeol Ryu and Seonghui Kim
With growth in data volume from space missions, interest in laser communications has increased, owing to their importance for high-speed data transfer in the commercial and defense fields, spaceborne remote sensing, and surveillance. Here, we propose a n...
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Ahmed E. S. Nosseir, Angelo Cervone and Angelo Pasini
Green propellants are currently considered as enabling technology that is revolutionizing the development of high-performance space propulsion, especially for small-sized spacecraft. Modern space missions, either in LEO or interplanetary, require relativ...
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Calvin Nguyen and James C. Thomas
Hybrid rocket engine (HRE) performance is dependent on fuel/oxidizer selection and fuel grain geometry. A literature review was performed to identify key trends and findings related to the application of the additive manufacturing (AM) of fuel systems fo...
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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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Andreas Neumann and Michaela Brchnelova
Electric space propulsion is a technology that is used in a continuously increasing number of spacecrafts. The qualification of these propulsion systems has to run in ground-based test facilities which requires long testing times and powerful pumping sys...
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Andrew K. Jeyaraj and Susan Liscouët-Hanke
To reduce the environmental impact of aviation, aircraft manufacturers develop novel aircraft configurations and investigate advanced systems technologies. These new technologies are complex and characterized by electrical or hybrid-electric propulsion s...
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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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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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Francesco Barato
Hybrid rockets using specific oxidizer?fuel combinations are considered a green alternative to current propulsion systems, as they do not release very toxic or polluting exhausts, but only much less harmful substances such as carbon monoxide/dioxide and ...
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Vijesh Mohan, Andrew K. Jeyaraj and Susan Liscouët-Hanke
System integration is one of the key challenges to bringing future hybrid-electric and all-electric aircraft into the market. In addition, retrofitting and redesigning existing aircraft are potential paths toward achieving hybrid and all-electric flight,...
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