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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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Cyril Bourgenot, Valdis Krumins, David G. Bramall and Abdul M. Haque
CubeSats, known for their compact size and cost effectiveness, have gained significant popularity. However, their limited size imposes restrictions on the optical aperture and, consequently, the Ground Resolution Distance in Earth Observation missions. T...
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Andrea Malgarini, Vittorio Franzese and Francesco Topputo
This paper investigates the use of pulsar-based navigation for deep-space CubeSats. A novel approach for dealing with the onboard computation of navigational solutions and timekeeping capabilities of a spacecraft in a deep-space cruise is shown, and the ...
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Dulani Chamika Withanage, Mariko Teramoto and Mengu Cho
Magnetometers are important sensors with applications in the attitude determination and control systems of satellites. CubeSats have certain limitations related to power, mass, and volume. Due to this, CubeSat magnetometers are not separated from other e...
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Claudio Bottiglieri, Felice Piccolo, Carmine Giordano, Fabio Ferrari and Francesco Topputo
In this paper, a practical approach to trajectory design for asteroid exploration missions with CubeSats is presented. When applied trajectories are sought, operative concerns and uncertainties affecting the spacecraft dynamics must be considered during ...
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Giorgio Capovilla, Enrico Cestino and Leonardo Reyneri
Current CubeSats usually exhibit a low structural mass efficiency and a low internal volume for their payloads. The present work aims to propose an advanced structural architecture for CubeSats that addresses the issues of low structural mass efficiency ...
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Cristiana Francisco, Ricardo Henriques and Susana Barbosa
The ionosphere is a fundamental component of the Earth?s atmosphere, impacting human activities such as communication transmissions, navigation systems, satellite functions, power network systems, and natural gas pipelines, even endangering human life or...
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Desalegn Abebaw Zeleke and Hae-Dong Kim
A mega constellation of Nano/microsatellites is the contemporary solution for global-level Earth observation demands. However, as most of the images taken by Earth-observing satellites are covered by clouds, storing and downlinking these images results i...
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Andrea Curatolo, Anton Bahu and Dario Modenini
Dynamic spacecraft simulators are becoming a widespread tool to enable effective on-ground verification of the attitude determination and control subsystem (ADCS). In such facilities, the on-orbit rotational dynamics shall be simulated, thereby requiring...
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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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