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Ivan di Stefano, Daniele Durante, Paolo Cappuccio and Paolo Racioppa
The exploration of Uranus, a key archetype for ice giant planets and a gateway to understanding distant exoplanets, is acquiring increasing interest in recent years, especially after the Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP) mission has been prioritized in the ...
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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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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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Luisa Boni, Marco Bassetto and Alessandro A. Quarta
Photonic solar sails are a class of advanced propellantless propulsion systems that use thin, large, lightweight membranes to convert the momentum of light from the Sun into thrust for space navigation. The conceptually simple nature of such a fascinatin...
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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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Limei Ma, Yongheng Zhang, Yuli Niu, Yong Zhao, Shaoya Guan, Zijing Wang and Tuoda Wu
Ball-shell rotors with non-standard shapes, non-uniform conductive coatings, and eccentric masses machined by conventional processes constrain the improvement of levitation and torque accuracy of magnetically levitated momentum balls. This paper focuses ...
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Fengxu Wang, Wenfu Xu, Lei Yan, Chengqing Xie and Weihua Pu
Accurately estimating the pose of spacecraft is indispensable for space applications. However, such targets are generally non-cooperative, i.e., no markers are mounted on them, and they include no parts for operation. Therefore, the detection and measure...
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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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Xin Zhang, Wenjing Wang, Chaopin Bai, Yueqiang Sun, Shichen Jiang, Zhihao Yang, Qiang Chen, Lichang Zhang, Liguo Zhang, Zhiliang Zhang, Ziting Wang and Shuai Zhang
The present study can be applied to the study of the influence of a Hall thruster plume on the spacecraft surface.
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