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Sustainable Cities and Communities: Which Role for CubeSats? [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesThe paper discusses the role of CubeSats in advancing sustainable cities and communities, emphasizing their value in urban monitoring. CubeSats, small and cost-effective satellites, enable near-real-time Earth Observation (EO), providing crucial ...
Q. Xu, M. A. Brovelli
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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 +1 more
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Towards the Thousandth CubeSat: A Statistical Overview
International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2019 CubeSats have become an interesting innovation in the space sector. Such platforms are being used for several space applications, such as education, Earth remote sensing, science, and defense. As of May 31st, 2018, 855 CubeSats had been launched.
Thyrso Villela +4 more
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A Review of Battery Technology in CubeSats and Small Satellite Solutions
Energies, 2020 CubeSats and small satellite solutions are increasing in popularity as they enable a fast, cheap, and agile way for satellite applications. An essential component of nearly every satellite is the energy storage device, which is practically equal to a ...
Vaclav Knap +2 more
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A Review of New Technologies in Passive Thermal Control for CubeSats [PDF]
فناوری در مهندسی هوافضا, 2022 Most spacecraft components have a specific allowable temperature limit that must be met for optimal operation and subsystem survival. The adjustment of this temperature range is made by various active and passive thermal management techniques.
Hamed Sheikhbahaee, Saeed Hajialigol
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GeotechnicsThe ability to precisely monitor soil moisture is highly valuable in industries including agriculture and civil engineering. As soil moisture is a spatially erratic and temporally dynamic variable, rapid, cost-effective, widely applicable, and practical ...
Savannah L. McGuirk, Iver H. Cairns
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Space Weather, 2022 When the first CubeSats were launched nearly two decades ago, few people believed that the miniature satellites would likely prove to be a useful scientific tool. Skeptics abounded.
Harlan E. Spence +16 more
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Stability of CubeSat Clocks and Their Impacts on GNSS Radio Occultation
Remote Sensing, 2022 Global Navigation Satellite Systems’ radio occultation (GNSS-RO) provides the upper troposphere-lower stratosphere (UTLS) vertical atmospheric profiles that are complementing radiosonde and reanalysis data. Such data are employed in the numerical weather
Amir Allahvirdi-Zadeh +4 more
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CubeSats: main characteristics and orbits [PDF]
Космические аппараты и технологииOver the past 25 years, CubeSats have accounted for nearly 15 % of all spacecraft launched into orbit. To support a comprehensive review of existing CubeSat missions and to enable the use of related data for planning and developing future missions, a ...
Yakovlev O. Ya., Malygin D. V.
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Space Biology Research and Biosensor Technologies: Past, Present, and Future
Biosensors, 2021 In light of future missions beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) and the potential establishment of bases on the Moon and Mars, the effects of the deep space environment on biology need to be examined in order to develop protective countermeasures. Although many
Ada Kanapskyte +5 more
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