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A Technical Review of Planet Smallsat Data: Practical Considerations for Processing and Using PlanetScope Imagery

Remote Sensing, 2021
With the ability to capture daily imagery of Earth at very high spatial resolutions, commercial smallsats are emerging as a key resource for the remote sensing community.
Amy E. Frazier, Benjamin L. Hemingway
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Demonstrating high-precision photometry with a CubeSat: ASTERIA observations of 55 Cancri e [PDF]

, 2020
ASTERIA (Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research In Astrophysics) is a 6U CubeSat space telescope (10 cm x 20 cm x 30 cm, 10 kg). ASTERIA's primary mission objective was demonstrating two key technologies for reducing systematic noise in photometric ...
Babuscia, Alessandra, Bailey, Vanessa P., Bocchino, Jr., Robert L., Campuzano, Brian, Colley, Cody, Demory, Brice-Olivier, Di Pasquale, Peter, Donner, Amanda, Fesq, Lorraine, Gedenk, Tobias, Hughes, Kyle, Knapp, Mary, Krajewski, Joel, Krishnamurthy, Akshata, Kulkarni, Tejas, Loveland, Jessica, Luu, Jason, Pong, Christopher M., Seager, Sara, Smith, Colin, Smith, Matthew W., White, Mary   +21 more
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Appraisal of Low-Cost Pushbroom Hyper-Spectral Sensor Systems for Material Classification in Reflectance

Sensors, 2021
Near infrared (NIR) remote sensing has applications in vegetation analysis as well as geological investigations. For extra-terrestrial applications, this is particularly relevant to Moon, Mars and asteroid exploration, where minerals exhibiting spectral ...
Steven Hobbs, Andrew Lambert, Michael J. Ryan, David J. Paull, John Haythorpe   +4 more
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PolarLight: a CubeSat X-ray Polarimeter based on the Gas Pixel Detector [PDF]

, 2019
The gas pixel detector (GPD) is designed and developed for high-sensitivity astronomical X-ray polarimetry, which is a new window about to open in a few years.
An, Peng, Baldini, Luca, Bellazzini, Ronaldo, Brez, Alessandro, Citraro, Saverio, Costa, Enrico, Feng, Hua, Huang, Jiahui, Jiang, Weichun, Jin, Ge, Jung, Aera, Latronico, Luca, Minuti, Massimo, Muleri, Fabio, Nasimi, Hikmat, Pinchera, Michele, Sgrò, Carmelo, Soffitta, Paolo, Spandre, Gloria, Wu, Qiong, Yang, Dongxin, Yu, Jiandong, Zeng, Ming   +22 more
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The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission overview [PDF]

Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation
The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project is a future CubeSat mission orbiting the Earth aimed to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band, by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter.
S. Fabiani, E. Del Monte, I. Baffo, S. Bonomo, D. Brienza, R. Campana, M. Centrone, G. Contini, Enrico Costa, G. Cucinella, A. Curatolo, N. De Angelis, G. De Cesare, Andrea Del Re, S. Di Cosimo, S. Di Filippo, A. Di Marco, G. Di Persio, I. Donnarumma, P. Fanelli, P. Leonetti, A. Locarini, P. Loffredo, G. Lombardi, G. Minervini, D. Modenini, F. Muleri, S. Natalucci, A. Negri, M. Perelli, M. Rossi, A. Rubini, E. Scalise, P. Soffitta, A. Terracciano, P. Tortora, E. Zaccagnino, A. Zambardi   +37 more
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Multibeam Antenna for -Band CubeSat Connectivity Using 3-D Printed Lens and Antenna Array

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2022
In this letter, the design of a passive multibeam lens antenna is proposed for the CubeSat space communication system as an alternative application of a 2-D microstrip antenna array that has originally been designed for a 39-GHz 5G multi-user, multiple ...
K. Trzebiatowski, Weronika Kalista, M. Rzymowski, Łukasz Kulas, K. Nyka   +4 more
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Introducing the MeVCube concept: a CubeSat for MeV observations [PDF]

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022
Despite the impressive progress achieved both by X-ray and gamma-ray observatories in the last few decades, the energy range between ∼ 200 keV and ∼ 50 MeV remains poorly explored.
G. Lucchetta, M. Ackermann, D. Berge, R. Bühler   +3 more
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Preliminary Analysis of Delta-V Requirements for a Lunar CubeSat Impactor with Deployment Altitude Variations [PDF]

Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2015
Characteristics of delta-V requirements for deploying an impactor from a mother-ship at different orbital altitudes are analyzed in order to prepare for a future lunar CubeSat impactor mission.
Young-Joo Song, Jin Ho, Bang-Yeop Kim
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Pre-Launch Assembly, Integration, and Testing Strategy of a Hyperspectral Imaging CubeSat, HYPSO-1

Remote Sensing, 2022
Assembly, Integration, and Verification/Testing (AIV or AIT) is a standardized guideline for projects to ensure consistency throughout spacecraft development phases.
Elizabeth Frances Prentice, Evelyn Honoré-Livermore, Sivert Bakken, Marie Bøe Henriksen, Roger Birkeland, Martine Hjertenæs, Amund Gjersvik, Tor Arne Johansen, Fernando Aguado-Agelet, Fermin Navarro-Medina   +9 more
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Development of a flight software framework for student CubeSat missions

Tecnología en Marcha, 2019
During 2018 a student CubeSat project was developed at George Washington University (GWU) for the first time. The small satellite mission implemented a software stack with the hope of creating a simple and lightweight framework for future academic ...
Olman D. Quiros-Jimenez, Duncan d’Hemecourt   +1 more
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