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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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Ben Campbell and Lawrence Dale Thomas
This article describes a new alternative approach to satellite constellation deployment by incorporating momentum exchange tethers (METs). Traditional methods of deploying satellite constellations have limitations, typically involving costly propulsion s...
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Janis Dalbins, Kristo Allaje, Hendrik Ehrpais, Iaroslav Iakubivskyi, Erik Ilbis, Pekka Janhunen, Joosep Kivastik, Maido Merisalu, Mart Noorma, Mihkel Pajusalu, Indrek Sünter, Antti Tamm, Hans Teras, Petri Toivanen, Boris Segret and Andris Slavinskis
Nanosatellites have established their importance in low-Earth orbit (LEO), and it is common for student teams to build them for educational and technology demonstration purposes. The next challenge is the technology maturity for deep-space missions. The ...
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Kathiravan Thangavel, Pablo Servidia, Roberto Sabatini, Pier Marzocca, Haytham Fayek, Santiago Husain Cerruti, Martin España and Dario Spiller
Space-based Earth Observation (EO) systems have undergone a continuous evolution in the twenty-first century. With the help of space-based Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), specially Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), their applicability across the w...
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Ahmed Mahfouz, Gabriella Gaias, D. M. K. K. Venkateswara Rao and Holger Voos
In this paper, the problem of autonomous optimal absolute orbit keeping for a satellite mission in Low Earth Orbit using electric propulsion is considered. The main peculiarity of the approach is to support small satellite missions in which the platform ...
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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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Jakub Gramatyka, Przemyslaw Paszkiewicz, Damian Grabowski, Adrian Parzybut, Daria Bodych, Krzysztof Wróblewski, Pawel Surmacz and Krzysztof Pietrzak
The following paper presents the key design and test activities associated with the development of POLON?a green microsatellite propulsion module using 98% Hydrogen Peroxide (HTP). POLON, which stands for ?Polish Propulsion Module?, is the first step tow...
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Chengzhang Li, Bo Xu, Wanmeng Zhou and Qibo Peng
We propose two approaches based on feedforward control and model-predictive control, respectively, to solve the station-keeping problem of an electric-propulsion geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) satellite, whose thrusters are mounted on two robotic arms o...
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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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Geuk-Nam Kim, Sang-Young Park, Sehyun Seong, Jae-Young Choi, Sang-Kook Han, Young-Eon Kim, Suyong Choi, Joohee Lee, Sungmoon Lee, Han-Gyeol Ryu and Seonghui Kim
With growth in data volume from space missions, interest in laser communications has increased, owing to their importance for high-speed data transfer in the commercial and defense fields, spaceborne remote sensing, and surveillance. Here, we propose a n...
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