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An Overview of Cube-Satellite Propulsion Technologies and Trends
Aerospace, 2017 CubeSats provide a cost effective means to perform scientific and technological studies in space. Due to their affordability, CubeSat technologies have been diversely studied and developed by educational institutions, companies and space organizations ...
Akshay Reddy Tummala, Atri Dutta
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Космические аппараты и технологии, 2023 A combined flight profile is being considered, in which the Falcon 9 launch vehicle launches the spacecraft into elliptical intermediate orbit from the Cape Canaveral launch site.
Paing Soe Thu Oo
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Hybrid Low Thrust Propulsion Trajectory Design and Optimization Using Virtual Gravity Method [PDF]
Xibei Gongye Daxue Xuebao, 2018 a novel spacecraft trajectory design method using hybrid low thrust system is proposed in this paper. The hybrid system is constituted with a solar sail propulsion thruster and a solar electric propulsion thruster.
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Spacecraft Electric Propulsion-An Overview [PDF]
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 1998 A short review of the status of electric propulsion (EP) is presented to serve as an introduction to the more specialized technical papers also appearing in this Special Issue (Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 14, No. 5, Sept. –Oct. 1998). The principles of operation and the several types of thrusters that are either operational or in advanced ...
M. Martinez-Sanchez, J. E. Pollard
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Needs assessment of gossamer structures in communications platform end-of-life disposal [PDF]
, 2013 The use of a gossamer structure is considered in application to end-of-life disposal of communications platforms. A wide-ranging survey of end-of-life disposal techniques and strategies is presented for comparison against a gossamer structure prior to a ...
Bewick, Charlotte +2 more
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Artificial libration points in the task of towing space debris by an ion beam [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Математика. Механика. Информатика, 2021 The work is devoted to the problem of towing space debris from a geostationary orbit to a graveyard orbit by a non-contact method using an ion beam created by the engine of an active spacecraft.
Петухов, Вячеслав Георгиевич +1 more
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Rapid Orbit-to-Orbit Transfer to Asteroid 4660 Nereus Using Solar Electric Propulsion
Universe, 2023 This paper analyzes the rapid rendezvous trajectory of a spacecraft equipped with an advanced solar electric propulsion system towards asteroid 4660 Nereus.
Alessandro A. Quarta +2 more
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Orbital Maintenance of a Constellation of CubeSats for Internal Gravity Wave Tomography
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2020 The advent of radio occultation (RO) instruments aboard CubeSats leads to the possibility of a mission to sound atmospheric internal gravity waves if such satellites are deployed in close-flying constellation.
Stephen Leroy +4 more
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St. Petersburg Polytechnical University Journal: Physics and Mathematics, 2020 A number of characteristics of ionic and ion-plasma accelerators laboratory samples designed for electrically powered spacecraft propulsion were investigated in the experimental research.
Tsybin Oleg +6 more
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Plasma Accelerator Utilizing the Medium of Near-Earth Space for Orbital Transfer Vehicles
Applied Sciences, 2023 The development of plasma accelerators for spacecraft propulsion that can capture space matter and energy shows great promise for spacecraft advancement.
Alexander R. Karimov +3 more
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