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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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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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Van Minh Nguyen, Emma Sandidge, Trupti Mahendrakar and Ryan T. White
The accelerating deployment of spacecraft in orbit has generated interest in on-orbit servicing (OOS), inspection of spacecraft, and active debris removal (ADR). Such missions require precise rendezvous and proximity operations in the vicinity of non-coo...
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Giacomo Borelli, Gabriella Gaias and Camilla Colombo
In recent years, the interest in proximity operations to uncooperative and non-collaborative objects has been growing and and demanding for specific technology advances to tackle these challenging cases of in-orbit servicing and removal missions. Indeed,...
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Dmitry Shved, Natalia Supolkina and Anna Yusupova
The increasing complexity of the space flight program and the increase in the duration of missions require an improvement in psychological monitoring tools for astronauts in orbit. This article summarizes the experience of using quantitative content anal...
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Paolo Soffitta
An observatory dedicated to X-ray polarimetry has been operational since 9 December 2021. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a collaboration between NASA and ASI, features three X-ray telescopes equipped with detectors sensitive to linear pol...
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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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Dongbo Liu and Li Chen
The on-orbit operation of insertion and extraction of space robots is a technology essential to the assembly and maintenance in orbit, satellite fuel filling, failed satellite recovery, especially modular in-orbit assembly of micro-spacecraft. Therefore,...
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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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Giulio De Angelis, Stefano Carletta, Mauro Pontani and Paolo Teofilatto
Exploration of Venus is recently driven by the interest of the scientific community in understanding the evolution of Earth-size planets, and is leading the implementation of missions that can benefit from new design techniques and technology. In this wo...
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