Abstract Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
for aerospace applications have brought about new opportunities for the fast-growing …

One of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals is climate action (SDG-13),
and wildfire is among the catastrophic events that both impact climate change and are …

EARTH-CENTRIC spacecraft have been designed for decades as monolithic systems, which
are highly integrated systems conceived to fulfill a set of goals satisfying certain user needs …

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Earth Observation applications are demanding higher spatial resolution and shorter revisit
times than existing systems, which can be met by ad-hoc constellations of Federated …

Motivated by the growth of the commercial space economy and renewed focus on the
disaggregation of military space systems, this work develops a method for conceptual …

This paper defines Federations of Systems, introduces a tailored architecting framework,
and demonstrates it in a satellite design case study. While certainly not being new concepts …

Satellite architectures where networked, heterogeneous observation nodes capture data in
a distributed manner are seen as feasible solutions to address the needs of next-generation …

This paper aims at identifying retrofitting possibilities to incorporate existing spacecraft into a
network of federated satellite systems. The paper presents a systematic review of possible …

Earth observation satellite programs are currently facing, for some applications, the need to
deliver hourly revisit times, subkilometric spatial resolutions, and near-real-time data access …