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Digital Availability of Product Information for Collaborative Engineering of Spacecraft [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this paper, we introduce a system to collect product information from manufacturers and make it available in tools that are used for concurrent design of spacecraft.
A. L. Ramos   +7 more
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Achievements and Lessons Learned From Successful Small Satellite Missions for Space Weather‐Oriented Research

open access: yesSpace 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
doaj   +1 more source

Relationships between Soil Moisture and Visible–NIR Soil Reflectance: A Review Presenting New Analyses and Data to Fill the Gaps

open access: yesGeotechnics
The 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
doaj   +1 more source

Stability of CubeSat Clocks and Their Impacts on GNSS Radio Occultation

open access: yesRemote 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
doaj   +1 more source

Optical communication on CubeSats - Enabling the next era in space science

open access: yes, 2018
CubeSats are excellent platforms to rapidly perform simple space experiments. Several hundreds of CubeSats have already been successfully launched in the past few years and the number of announced launches grows every year.
Biswas, Abhijit   +6 more
core   +1 more source

CubeSats: main characteristics and orbits [PDF]

open access: yesКосмические аппараты и технологии
Over 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.
doaj   +1 more source

Deploying quantum light sources on nanosatellites II: lessons and perspectives on CubeSat spacecraft

open access: yes, 2015
To enable space-based quantum key distribution proposals the Centre for Quantum Technologies is developing a source of entangled photons ruggedized to survive deployment in space and greatly miniaturised so that it conforms to the strict form factor and ...
Bedington, Robert   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Space Biology Research and Biosensor Technologies: Past, Present, and Future

open access: yesBiosensors, 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
doaj   +1 more source

TOWARDS DISTILLATION OF DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SATELLITE ON-BOARD IMAGE SEGMENTATION [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020
Cubesats platforms expansion increases the need to simplify payloads and to optimize downlink data capabilities. A promising solution is to enhance on-board software, in order to take early decisions, automatically.
F. de Vieilleville   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Silicon avalanche photodiode operation and lifetime analysis for small satellites

open access: yes, 2013
Silicon avalanche photodiodes (APDs) are sensitive to operating temperature fluctuations and are also susceptible to radiation flux expected in satellite-based quantum experiments.
Chandrasekara, Rakhitha   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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