A survey on active magnetic attitude control algorithms for small satellites

MY Ovchinnikov, DS Roldugin - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Control algorithms for the active magnetic attitude control systems are covered in the survey.
Three different situations in the magnetic system implementation are considered. First …

Design and In-orbit Demonstration of REGULUS, an Iodine electric propulsion system

N Bellomo, M Magarotto, M Manente, F Trezzolani… - CEAS Space …, 2022 - Springer
REGULUS is an Iodine-based electric propulsion system. It has been designed and
manufactured at the Italian company Technology for Propulsion and Innovation SpA (T4i) …

REGULUS: A propulsion platform to boost small satellite missions

M Manente, F Trezzolani, M Magarotto, E Fantino… - Acta Astronautica, 2019 - Elsevier
REGULUS is a propulsion platform for CubeSats. It integrates the Magnetically Enhanced
Thruster (MET) and its subsystems (ie, fluidic line, electronics, and thermo-structural …

Magnetic Control for Detumbling of Satellites: A Tutorial

TT Ramodimo, K Mmopelwa, B Basutli… - … Conference on Smart …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The standard purely magnetic attitude control system utilizes three magnetic actuators to
control the spacecraft attitude about three principal axes. Although these actuators are …

[PDF][PDF] REGULUS: iodine fed plasma propulsion system for small satellites

M Manente, F Trezzolani, R Mantellato… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - researchgate.net
REGULUS is a complete electric propulsion unit fed with iodine propellant that is under
development at Technology for Propulsion and Innovation21, an Italian based company …

Attitude determination by unscented Kalman filter and solar panels as sun sensor

L Baroni - The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2020 - Springer
CubeSats have became a common platform for education and technology demonstration. To
overcome restrictions on CubeSat design, the Attitude Determination and Control System …

[PDF][PDF] REGULUS: Integration and Testing of an iodine Electric Propulsion System

N Bellomo, M Magarotto, M Manente… - Space Propulsion … - researchgate.net
(1) Technology for Propulsion and Innovation SpA, Padova, Italy (2) Centre of Studies and
Activities for Space “Giuseppe Colombo”, University of Padova, Padova, Italy (3) Department …

Optimization of Geomagnetic and Solar Reference Vector Algorithms for Micro-Nano Satellites

J Ye, G Xia, X Yu, X Zhong, X Hu, L Pu… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
To optimize the geomagnetic reference vector and the solar reference vector calculation
method, this paper proposes a geomagnetic fitting algorithm and simplifies the DE430 …

[PDF][PDF] Enhancement of microsatellites' mission capabilities: integration of REGULUS electric propulsion module into UniSat-7 Nicolas Bellomoa*, Marco Manentea …

S ᵈ GAUSS - researchgate.net
Micro and small satellites' market is rapidly growing, and its value is estimated to triple in the
next four years. To allow different mission scenarios, the need for an autonomous, reliable …

[PDF][PDF] COBEM-2017-2752 Attitude Determination For A Brazilian CubeSat Mission Using The Kalman Filter

KM dos Santos, AL da Silva, FSN Coelho - researchgate.net
This work addresses the design and simulation of an Extended Kalman Filter for attitude
determination in a CubeSat using the MATLAB/Simulink platform. The CubeSat is the …