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Marco Sabatini and Giovanni B. Palmerini
This paper investigates the performance of the forthcoming lunar navigation satellite systems for estimating not only the position of an onboard receiver in a lunar inertial reference frame but also, and with a consistent accuracy, the relative position ...
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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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Joshua J. R. Critchley-Marrows, Xiaofeng Wu, Yosuke Kawabata and Shinichi Nakasuka
In recent years, the number of expected missions to the Moon has increased significantly. With limited terrestrial-based infrastructure to support this number of missions, as well as restricted visibility over intended mission areas, there is a need for ...
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Kirill Chernov, Uliana Monakhova, Yaroslav Mashtakov, Shamil Biktimirov, Dmitry Pritykin and Danil Ivanov
The paper presents a study of decentralized control for a satellite formation flying mission that uses differential lift and drag to enforce the relative positioning requirements. All spacecraft are equipped with large sunlight reflectors so that, given ...
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Danil Ivanov, Goncalo Amaro, Yaroslav Mashtakov, Mikhail Ovchinnikov and Anna Guerman
A formation flying control algorithm using the Lorentz force for Low Earth Orbits to achieve a trajectory with required shape and size is proposed in the paper. The Lorentz force is produced as a result of interaction between the Earth?s magnetic field a...
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Sangwon Lee, Sang-Young Park, Jeongbae Kim, Min-Ho Ka and Youngbum Song
This study designs a multistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) formation-flying system for very-high-resolution stripmap imaging (VHRSI) using manufacturable SAR microsatellites. Multistatic SAR formation specifications for VHRSI are derived based on th...
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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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Xiande Wu, Wenbin Bai, Yaen Xie, Xianliang Zhang and Ting Song
The prescribed performance robust control method for the leader/follower (L/F) formation is proposed in this paper to solve the problem of spacecraft formation flying (SFF) full-process control (FPC). The objective of FPC is to establish an ultra-close f...
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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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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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