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Simone Battistini, Giulio De Angelis, Mauro Pontani and Filippo Graziani
Modern space missions often require satellites to perform guidance, navigation, and control tasks autonomously. Despite their limited resources, small satellites are also involved in this trend, as in-orbit rendezvous and docking maneuvers and formation ...
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Sarmad Dawood Salman Dawood, Ahmad Salahuddin Mohd Harithuddin and Mohammad Yazdi Harmin
Mass reduction is a primary design goal pursued in satellite structural design, since the launch cost is proportional to their total mass. The most common mass reduction method currently employed is to introduce honeycomb structures, with space qualified...
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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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Jonas Hofmann, Andreas Knopp, Chad M. Spooner, Giovanni Minelli and James Newman
Challenges in interference-limited satellite detection arising from the low-earth orbit (LEO) and the Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency bands are addressed. In particular, a novel signal presence detector based on cyclostationary signal ...
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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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Pedro L. K. da Cás, Carlos A. G. Veras, Olexiy Shynkarenko and Rodrigo Leonardi
At present, most small satellites are delivered as hosted payloads on large launch vehicles. Considering the current technological development, constellations of small satellites can provide a broad range of services operating at designated orbits. To ac...
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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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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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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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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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Dillon O?Reilly, Georg Herdrich, Felix Schäfer, Christoph Montag, Simon P. Worden, Peter Meaney and Darren F. Kavanagh
Pulsed plasma thrusters (PPT) have demonstrated enormous potential since the 1960s. One major shortcoming is their low thrust efficiency, typically <30%. Most of these losses are due to joule heating, while some can be attributed to poor efficiency of th...
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Yasir M. O. ABBAS and Kenichi Asami
Software-defined radio (SDR) devices have made a massive contribution to communication systems by reducing the cost and development time for radio frequency (RF) designs. SDRs opened the gate to programmers and enabled them to increase the capabilities o...
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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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Giacomo Curzi, Dario Modenini and Paolo Tortora
Constellations of satellites are being proposed in large numbers; most of them are expected to be in orbit within the next decade. They will provide communication to unserved and underserved communities, enable global monitoring of Earth and enhance spac...
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Jun Long, Cong Li, Lei Zhu, Shilong Chen and Junfeng Liu
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Kota Mori and Masaki Takahashi
This paper proposes a nonlinear control method for carrying out Minimum-time satellite attitude maneuver and antenna motion which have robustness against model uncertainty. In recent years, small Earth observation satellites have been utilized and expect...
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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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Stefano Carletta, Paolo Teofilatto and M. Salim Farissi
Attitude determination represents a fundamental task for spacecraft. Achieving this task on small satellites, and nanosatellites in particular, is further challenging, because the limited power and computational resources available on-board, together wit...
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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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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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