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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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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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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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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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João P. Monteiro, Rui M. Rocha, Alexandre Silva, Rúben Afonso and Nuno Ramos
Large-scale space projects rely on a thorough Assembly, Integration, and Verification (AIV) process to provide the upmost reliability to spacecraft. While this has not traditionally been the case with CubeSats, their increasing role in space science and ...
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Jian Cao, Yang Zhang, Chuanyu Ju, Xinyi Xue and Jiyuan Zhang
With the continuous development of the space industry, the demand for low-gravity simulation experiments on the ground for spacecraft is increasing, to overcome the gravity compensation of spacecraft on the ground tests. This paper presents a new low-gra...
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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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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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William P. Schonberg
A primary spacecraft design consideration is the anticipation and mitigation of the possible damage that might occur in the event of an on-orbit micro-meteoroid or orbital debris (MMOD) particle impact. While considerable effort has been expended in the ...
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William P. Schonberg
A primary spacecraft design consideration is the anticipation and mitigation of the possible damage that might occur in the event of an on-orbit micro-meteoroid or orbital debris (MMOD) particle impact. While considerable effort has been expended in the ...
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Adam Okninski, Pawel Surmacz, Bartosz Bartkowiak, Tobiasz Mayer, Kamil Sobczak, Michal Pakosz, Damian Kaniewski, Jan Matyszewski, Grzegorz Rarata and Piotr Wolanski
This paper presents the development of indigenous hybrid rocket technology, using 98% hydrogen peroxide as an oxidizer. Consecutive steps are presented, which started with interest in hydrogen peroxide and the development of technology to obtain High Tes...
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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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Yi-Chung Chiu, Loren C. Chang, Chi-Kuang Chao, Tzu-Ya Tai, Kai-Lun Cheng, Hsin-Tzu Liu, Rong Tsai-Lin, Chi-Ting Liao, Wei-Hao Luo, Guan-Po Chiu, Kai-Jie Hou, Ruo-Yu Wang, Glenn Franco Gacal, Pin-An Lin, Sittinat Denduonghatai, Tsai-Ru Yu, Jann-Yenq Liu, Amal Chandran, Kashyapa Bramha Naren Athreyas, Priyadarshan Hari, Joji John Varghese and Mustapha MeftahaddShow full author listremoveHide full author list
Given the pervasive use of satellite and over the horizon wireless communication technology in modern society, ionospheric disturbances that can disrupt such services are a crucial consideration. Ionospheric irregularities, plasma bubbles and other pheno...
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Maeve Doyle, Rachel Dunwoody, Gabriel Finneran, David Murphy, Jack Reilly, Joseph Thompson, Sai Krishna Reddy Akarapu, Joseph Mangan, Sarah Walsh, Jessica Erkal, Fergal Marshall, Lána Salmon, Eoghan Somers, Lily Ha, David Palma, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Sheila McBreen, David McKeown, William O?Connor, Brian Shortt, Alexey Uliyanov, Ronan Wall and Lorraine HanlonaddShow full author listremoveHide full author list
The compact, standardised form factor of CubeSats allows for the use of commercial off-the-shelf components, reducing traditional barriers to entry, such as cost and development time. More than 1500 of these small spacecraft have been launched in the pas...
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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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Nicola Cimmino, Giorgio Isoletta, Roberto Opromolla, Giancarmine Fasano, Aniello Basile, Antonio Romano, Moreno Peroni, Alessandro Panico and Andrea Cecchini
The continuous growth of space debris motivates the development and the improvement of tools that support the monitoring of a more and more congested space environment. Satellite breakup models play a key role to predict and analyze orbital debris evolut...
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Lorenzo Olivieri, Francesco Sansone, Matteo Duzzi and Alessandro Francesconi
TED (Tethered Electromagnetic Docking) is a system proposed by a group of researchers and students of the University of Padova for close rendezvous and docking between spacecraft. It consists in a small tethered probe ejected by the chaser, reaching the ...
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