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Jingxi Liu, Bo Xu, Chengzhang Li and Muzi Li
Due to the non-spherical perturbation of the Moon, the lifetime of ultra low-altitude Lunar spacecraft may be quite short. In this paper, we analyze the lifetime of about 50 km-altitude Lunar spacecraft with different initial orbit. The lifetime in low i...
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Leonard Vance, Agustin Espinoza, Jorge Martinez Dominguez, Salil Rabade, Gavin Liu and Jekan Thangavelautham
Sustainable space exploration will require using off-world resources for propellant generation. Using off-world-generated propellants significantly increases future missions? range and payload capacity. Near Earth Objects (NEOs) contain a range of availa...
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Oleg Nizhnik
Four sample space launch missions were designed using rotating momentum transfer tethers (bolos) within low Earth orbit and a previously unknown phenomenon of ?aerospinning? was identified and simulated. The momentum transfer tethers were found to be onl...
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Alessandro A. Quarta, Giovanni Mengali, Marco Bassetto and Lorenzo Niccolai
The transfer between two coplanar Keplerian orbits of a spacecraft with a continuous-thrust propulsion system is a classical problem of astrodynamics, in which a numerical procedure is usually employed to find the transfer trajectory that optimizes (i.e....
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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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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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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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Claudio Bruno, Antonella Ingenito and Domenico Simone
A human Mars mission is more challenging to astronauts than the Apollo mission because of travel time, life support requirements, and the space environment. Although plans for Mars exploration by NASA and SpaceX based on conventional rockets have been pr...
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Alessandro A. Quarta and Giovanni Mengali
The aim of this paper is to investigate the performance of a robotic spacecraft, whose primary propulsion system is an electric solar wind sail (E-sail), in a mission to a heliostationary point (HP)?that is, a static equilibrium point in a heliocentric a...
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Giovanni Mengali and Alessandro A. Quarta
A close observation of the near-Sun region, with in situ measurements, requires that a scientific probe be placed in a heliocentric orbit with a perihelion distance on the order of a few solar radii only. This is the solution adopted by the Parker Solar ...
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Jin Gao, Ziyi Kang, Weiheng Sun, Youyin Wang, Junlong Zhang and Wen Bao
With the in-depth research on hypersonic aerodynamics and hypersonic propulsion technology, humans are growing closer to space travel. Recent studies have shown that the pre-cooled air-turborocket (ATR) or turboexpander engines are some of the potential ...
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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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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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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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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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Fu-Yuen Hsiao
This study investigated the variation of the osculating orbit elements of a spacecraft propelled by photonic laser propulsion (PLP) under the two-body problem assumption. The PLP thrusting system can produce continuous and constant thrust. This paper fir...
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Hye In Kim, Tae-Seong Roh, Hwanil Huh and Hyoung Jin Lee
With the growth of the satellite industry, the demand for a propulsion system for small launch vehicles and spacecraft has increased. Small liquid rocket engines may require Ultra-Low specific speed centrifugal pumps due to the low required thrust and vo...
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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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