Satellite communications in the new space era: A survey and future challenges

O Kodheli, E Lagunas, N Maturo… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite communications (SatComs) have recently entered a period of renewed interest
motivated by technological advances and nurtured through private investment and ventures …

[HTML][HTML] Autonomous navigation for deep space small satellites: Scientific and technological advances

E Turan, S Speretta, E Gill - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, there is a growing interest in small satellites for deep space exploration. The
current approach for planetary navigation is based on ground-based radiometric tracking. A …

Small satellites and CubeSats: Survey of structures, architectures, and protocols

F Davoli, C Kourogiorgas, M Marchese… - … Journal of Satellite …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The space environment is still challenging but is becoming more and more attractive for an
increasing number of entities. In the second half of the 20th century, a huge amount of funds …

A roadmap towards a space-based radio telescope for ultra-low frequency radio astronomy

MJ Bentum, MK Verma, RT Rajan, AJ Boonstra… - Advances in Space …, 2020 - Elsevier
The past two decades have witnessed a renewed interest in low frequency radio astronomy,
with a particular focus on frequencies above 30 MHz eg, LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) in …

A review of antennas for picosatellite applications

AH Lokman, PJ Soh, SN Azemi, H Lago… - … Journal of Antennas …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cube Satellite (CubeSat) technology is an attractive emerging alternative to conventional
satellites in radio astronomy, earth observation, weather forecasting, space research, and …

Space-based aperture array for ultra-long wavelength radio astronomy

RT Rajan, AJ Boonstra, M Bentum, M Klein-Wolt… - Experimental …, 2016 - Springer
The past decade has seen the advent of various radio astronomy arrays, particularly for low-
frequency observations below 100 MHz. These developments have been primarily driven by …

Joint ranging and synchronization for an anchorless network of mobile nodes

RT Rajan, AJ van der Veen - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synchronization and localization are critical challenges for the coherent functioning of a
wireless network, which are conventionally solved independently. Recently, various …

Onboard autonomous mission re-planning for multi-satellite system

Z Zheng, J Guo, E Gill - Acta Astronautica, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents an onboard autonomous mission re-planning system for Multi-Satellites
System (MSS) to perform onboard re-planing in disruptive situations. The proposed re …

Inter-satellite links for cubesats

A Budianu, TJW Castro, A Meijerink… - 2013 IEEE Aerospace …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Realizing inter-satellite links is a must for ensuring the success of cubesat swarm missions.
Nevertheless, it has hardly been considered until now. The communication systems for …

Quantifying hinge torque in self-folding, shape memory polymer origami under varying thermal loads

RW Mailen, RM Long, K Parmar, M Indaco… - Applied Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Self-folding origami actuated by thermally responsive shape memory polymers (SMPs)
presents a promising mechanism for the deployment of space structures. Pre-strained SMP …