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Leonard Vance, Agustin Espinoza, Jorge Martinez Dominguez, Salil Rabade, Gavin Liu and Jekan Thangavelautham
Sustainable space exploration will require using off-world resources for propellant generation. Using off-world-generated propellants significantly increases future missions? range and payload capacity. Near Earth Objects (NEOs) contain a range of availa...
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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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Simone Fiori, Francesco Rachiglia, Luca Sabatini and Edoardo Sampaolesi
The aim of this research paper is to propose a framework to model, simulate and control the motion of a small spacecraft in the proximity of a space station. In particular, rendezvous in the presence of physical obstacles is tackled by a virtual potentia...
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Andry Sedelnikov, Valeria Serdakova, Denis Orlov and Alexandra Nikolaeva
The paper investigates the stress?strain state of a homogeneous rectangular plate after a temperature shock. It is believed that the plate is the first approximation of the solar panel model of a small spacecraft. To study the stress?strain state of the ...
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Haohan Li and Xiyun Hou
Autonomous navigation and orbit determination are key problems of asteroid exploration missions. Inter-satellite range link is a type of measurement widely used in the orbit determination of Earth satellites, but not so widely used in missions around sma...
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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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Vladimir S. Aslanov and Daria V. Neryadovskaya
This paper is dedicated to identifying stable equilibrium positions of the tether systems attached to the L1 or L2 libration points of the Mars?Phobos system. The orbiting spacecraft deploying the tether is at the L1 or L2 libration point and is held at ...
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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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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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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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