Advances in miniaturization during the last decades have enabled the construction of small
spacecraft with total masses reaching down to 1kg and below. At the same time …

A paradigm shift from single large, multifunctional satellites to cooperating groups of smaller
satellites can be observed in Earth observation as well as in telecommunications. Another …

Modern miniaturization technologies allow realization of satellites at very low masses. For
the example of the pico-satellite UWE-1 (University Würzburg's Experimental satellite) …

Small satellite systems enable a whole new class of missions for navigation,
communications, remote sensing, and scientific research for both civilian and military …

Seeking to meet the resilience, efficiency, and quality of experience challenges of personal
and converged satellite services, we present a new approach that leverages the benefits of …

VERY small satellites, defined here as having a subkilogram mass, have the potential to
enable a new class of distributed space missions by merging the concepts of distributed …

In multi-satellite formations for Earth observation, downlink capacity is a key bottleneck in
data acquisition. As measurement data from different satellites of the same mission is often …

In the last decade, great progress was made in the development of small satellites and
CubeSats. Several small spacecraft were designed, fabricated, launched, and successfully …

The benefits of network coding in terms of throughput, security and robustness are well
understood for a large class of networks, such as wireless mesh networks and peer-to-peer …

The increasing development of technologies enabling efficient space exploration and data
communications has recently fostered a number of scientific missions, aimed at supporting …