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Martynas Mila?evicius and Laurynas Maciulis
This paper presents a state-of-the-art overview of fine beam steering mechanisms for free-space optical communication on satellites. Precise beam pointing is a critical task for the successful operation of free-space optical communication systems. Based ...
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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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Farouk Smith and Jieun Bae
This paper presents the design and development of a sub-joule micro-Pulsed Plasma Thruster (µPPT) as a possible low-cost propulsion solution for Pocket-Cubes, used to increase its reliability, capability, and lifetime. It is shown that the µPPT successfu...
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Joseph Haxel, Xiaoqin Zang, Jayson Martinez, Brian Polagye, Garrett Staines, Zhiqun Daniel Deng, Martin Wosnik and Patrick O?Byrne
Acoustic emissions from current energy converters remain an environmental concern for regulators because of their potential effects on marine life and uncertainties about their effects stemming from a lack of sufficient observational data. Several recent...
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Pavel Starovoitov
The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is a sampling hadronic calorimeter covering the central region of the ATLAS experiment, with steel as the absorber and plastic scintillators as the active medium. The High-Luminosity phase of the LHC, delivering five times ...
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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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Charalampos Papakonstantinou, Georgios Moraitis, Vaios Lappas and Vassilis Kostopoulos
In this paper, a low-cost, miniature spacecraft attitude control simulator is presented for testing miniature actuators such as Nano Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMGs) for simple maneuvers. The experimental setup is composed by an attitude control system (...
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Stefano Casini, Iosto Fodde, Bert Monna, Angelo Cervone and Eberhard Gill
The purpose of this work is to present a novel CubeSat architecture, aimed to explore Near Earth Asteroids. The fast growth in small satellite commercial-off-the-shelf technologies, which characterized the last decade of space industry, is exploited to d...
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Gourav Prateek Sharma, Wouter Tavernier, Didier Colle and Mario Pickavet
Broadcasters are building studio architectures based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) IT hardware because of advantages such as cost reduction, ease of management, and upgradation. Media function virtualization (MFV) leverages IP networking to transpor...
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Charalampos Papakonstantinou, Vaios Lappas and Vassilis Kostopoulos
This paper addresses the problem of singularity avoidance in a cluster of four Single-Gimbal Control Moment Gyroscopes (SGCMGs) in a pyramid configuration when used for the attitude control of a satellite by introducing a new gimballed control moment gyr...
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