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Richard French, Christophe Mandy, Richard Hunter, Ehson Mosleh, Doug Sinclair, Peter Beck, Sara Seager, Janusz J. Petkowski, Christopher E. Carr, David H. Grinspoon, Darrel Baumgardner and on behalf of the Rocket Lab Venus Team
Regular, low-cost Decadal-class science missions to planetary destinations will be enabled by high-?V small spacecraft, such as the high-energy Photon, and small launch vehicles, such as Electron, to support expanding opportunities for scientists and to ...
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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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Andry Sedelnikov, Valeria Serdakova, Denis Orlov and Alexandra Nikolaeva
The paper investigates the stress?strain state of a homogeneous rectangular plate after a temperature shock. It is believed that the plate is the first approximation of the solar panel model of a small spacecraft. To study the stress?strain state of the ...
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Seong-Cheol Kwon, Ji-Hae Son, Sung-Chan Song, Jin-Han Park, Kyung-Rae Koo and Hyun-Ung Oh
The Small SAR Technology Experimental Project (S-STEP) mission aims to develop a new (space-based 80 kg-class active X-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR)) satellite with a main imaging mode of 1 m resolution stripmap. In the S-STEP mission, to achieve t...
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Yeon-Hyeok Park, Seong-Cheol Kwon, Kyung-Rae Koo and Hyun-Ung Oh
Whole-spacecraft launch-vibration isolation systems are attractive for achieving the goal of better, faster, cheaper, and lighter small satellites by reducing the design-load and vibration-test specifications for on-board components. In this study, a thr...
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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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Jeremy Straub and David Whalen
The number of small spacecraft development programs in the United States and worldwide have increased significantly over the course of the last 10 years. This paper analyzes reasons for the growth in these programs by assessing what student participants ...
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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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Jeremy Straub and David Whalen
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Isai Fajardo, Aleksander A. Lidtke, Sidi Ahmed Bendoukha, Jesus Gonzalez-Llorente, Rafael Rodríguez, Rigoberto Morales, Dmytro Faizullin, Misuzu Matsuoka, Naoya Urakami, Ryo Kawauchi, Masayuki Miyazaki, Naofumi Yamagata, Ken Hatanaka, Farhan Abdullah, Juan J. Rojas, Mohamed Elhady Keshk, Kiruki Cosmas, Tuguldur Ulambayar, Premkumar Saganti, Doug Holland, Tsvetan Dachev, Sean Tuttle, Roger Dudziak and Kei-ichi OkuyamaaddShow full author listremoveHide full author list
Ten-Koh is a 23.5 kg, low-cost satellite developed to conduct space environment effects research in low-Earth orbit (LEO). Ten-Koh was developed primarily by students of the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) and launched on 29 October 2018 on-boar...
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Sebastian Kottmeier, Philipp Wittje, Sabine Klinkner, Olaf Essmann, Birgit Suhr, Jan-Luca Kirchler and Tra-Mi Ho
In order to reduce the costs of integration and verification processes and to optimize the assembly, integration and verification (AIV) flow in the prototype development of small- and medium-sized spacecrafts, an industrial six-axis robot was used as a u...
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Weichao Chi, He Ma, Caihua Wang and Tianyu Zhao
The Stewart platform, a classical mechanism proposed as the parallel operation apparatus of robots, is widely used for vibration isolation in various fields. In this paper, a design integrating both small attitude control and vibration isolation for high...
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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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Haohan Li and Xiyun Hou
Autonomous navigation and orbit determination are key problems of asteroid exploration missions. Inter-satellite range link is a type of measurement widely used in the orbit determination of Earth satellites, but not so widely used in missions around sma...
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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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Fabrizio Stesina
The release and retrieval of a CubeSat from a big spacecraft is useful for the external inspection and monitoring of the big spacecraft. However, docking maneuvers during the retrieval are challenging since safety constraints and high performance must be...
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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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Vladimir S. Aslanov and Daria V. Neryadovskaya
This paper is dedicated to identifying stable equilibrium positions of the tether systems attached to the L1 or L2 libration points of the Mars?Phobos system. The orbiting spacecraft deploying the tether is at the L1 or L2 libration point and is held at ...
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Lorenzo Niccolai, Marco Bassetto, Alessandro A. Quarta and Giovanni Mengali
Propellantless propulsive systems such as Electric Solar Wind Sails are capable of accelerating a deep-space probe, only requiring a small amount of propellant for attitude and spin-rate control. However, the generated thrust magnitude is usually small w...
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