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Abstracting Cubesat Operations: A Path to Real Cubesat Interoperability
Introduction of the CubeSat form factor brought a paradigm shift in the industry. With the size becoming a standard, cost and development time were able to be reduced significantly. However, the industry has not yet fully realized the potential of this new paradigm. Many other simplifications or …
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Cubesat Wakes in the Earth’s Ionosphere
… being revolutionized by the advent of the CubeSat: 10cm cubed satellites that typically deploy in constellations for less than $100,000. Spacecraft instrumentation design must be redefined to abide by the compact CubeSat payload. Furthermore, the CubeSat dimension must be considered with …
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Interplanetary Ridesharing: Exploring Potential CubeSat Trajectories
<p>Ever since the revolutionary CubeSat form factor took hold in the Aerospace industry, there has been a desire to send them further and further into space. This thesis introduces an optimization approach to deployment that explores new possibilities of interplanetary CubeSats. In this approach …
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CubeSat Constellation Analysis for Data Relaying
<p>Current CubeSat communication technology limits the amount of time, and number of accesses with ground stations. It has been proposed to use a constellation of CubeSats to improve relay performance and increase the number of accesses between a CubeSat and ground stations. By using the spatial …
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Pattern reconfigurable reflectarray for cubesat applications
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Dynamic instabilities imparted by CubeSat propulsion
As the role of CubeSats evolves to include more challenging and complex missions in addition to technology demonstrations, the demand for agility have increased. As the technology improves and gains flight heritage, CubeSats are being deployed to accomplish more difficult missions including, but …
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A jam-resistant CubeSat communications architecture
… system that utilizes the benefits of CubeSats to provide jam-resistant communications. The growth of CubeSats within educational communities has prompted their use in industry; both industry and academia have contributed towards making CubeSats much more capable. CubeSats can now …
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Space situational awareness CubeSat concept of operations
… to explore the potential for a cube satellite (CubeSat) to contribute to the current SSN, with an optical payload integrated into a 3U Colony II Bus. The bus and payload data from the CubeSat will be collected by the Naval Postgraduate School Mobile CubeSat Command and Control ground station. …
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STARE CubeSat Communications Testing, Simulation and Analysis
… the Actionable Refinement of Ephemeris (STARE) CubeSat will play an important role in contributing to this nations space situational awareness (SSA), perhaps one day becoming an integral part of the space surveillance network (SSN) to track orbital debris and satellites, both active and …
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Fault Tolerant and Flexible CubeSat Software Architecture
<p>The CubeSat pico-satellite is gaining popularity in both the educational and aerospace industries. Due to a lack of experience and constrained hardware capabilities, most of the university missions have been educational in nature. Cal Poly's project, PolySat, has gained significant experience …
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Calibration and validation for CubeSat Microwave Radiometers
… Atmospheric Satellite-2A (MicroMAS-2A) is a 3U CubeSat launched in January 2018 that provided the first CubeSat microwave atmospheric sounder data from orbit. The goal of having cost-effective miniature instruments distributed in LEO is to field constellations and improve temporal and geospatial …
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Distributed Ground Station Network for CubeSat Communications
… to Low Earth Orbit. Traditionally, these cubesats rely on Amateur Radio communications technology that are proven to work from space. However, as data volumes increase, the existing Amateur Radio protocols, combined with the restrictions of use for the Amateur Radio Spectrum, as well as …
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Analysis of a CubeSat Orbit Using STK
This thesis presents an analysis of CubeSat orbits for both Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) missions using Systems Tool Kit (STK). The study focuses on analyzing communication, power generation, and radiation exposure while considering various factors. The analysis is based on …
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Dynamic Analysis of CubeSat Impact on Lunar Surface
<p>EagleCam is a pico-satellite (CubeSat) with dimensions of 100 x 100 x 150 mm3 that is going to the moon as a payload of the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander. The CubeSat’s purpose is to record the lunar landing from a 3rd person view. Unlike other CubeSats, EagleCam is designed to impact …
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Reliable Software Updates for On-Orbit CubeSat Satellites
<p>CubeSat satellites have redefined the standard solution for conducting missions in space due to their unique form factor and cost. The harsh environment of space necessitates examining features that improve satellite robustness and ultimately extend lifetime, which is typical and vital for …
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A Data-Driven Approach to Cubesat Health Monitoring
… increase, and are in many cases impractical on CubeSat satellites which have strict size and resource limitations. To overcome these problems, new data-driven techniques such as Inductive Monitoring System (IMS), use data mining and machine learning on archived system telemetry to create models …
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Inductive Monitoring Systems: A CubeSat Ground-Based Prototype
… determined if the IMS program could connect to a CubeSat in a testing environment and could successfully monitor all sensors on board the CubeSat before in-flight use. This program consisted of two main algorithms, one for learning and one for monitoring. The learning algorithm creates the nominal …
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Development of Safety Standards for CubeSat Propulsion Systems
<p>The CubeSat community has begun to develop and implement propulsion systems. This movement represents a new capability which may satisfy mission needs such as orbital and constellation maintenance, formation flight, de-orbit, and even interplanetary travel. With the freedom and capability …
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Návrh 3D tištěné CubeSat struktury pro misi KOSTKA
… inovativní návrh a implementaci 3D struktury pro CubeSat misi KOSTKA, kterou aktuálně vyvíjí univerzitní tým YSpace. S využitím pokročilých technologií aditivní výroby - selektivního laserového tavení (SLM) a přímého laserového spékání kovů (DMLS) - si tato práce klade za cíl optimalizovat …
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