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 …

We confirm the applicability of using small satellite formation flight for multi-angular earth
observation to retrieve global, narrow band, narrow field-of-view albedo. The value of …

Requirements from the different disciplines of the Earth sciences on satellite missions have
become considerably more stringent in the past decade, while budgets in space …

Due to the ease of integration, low cost and high radiation efficiency, microstrip antennas are
the optimum choice for Cubesat applications. Microstrip antenna structure is characterized …

A methodology for evaluating the science benefit of adding space weather sensor data from
a modest number of small satellites to the Utah State University Global Assimilation of …

The goal of this study is to explore the feasibility of utilizing a network of orbiting satellites
working as a distributed-computing array. The satellites are presumed to be low-cost mini-or …

Abstract In 2007, The National Research Council released a report known as the Earth
Science Decadal Survey. This report lays out an architecture for a holistic Earth Observation …

Terrestrial weather is defined by variations in the atmosphere, in the form of, for example,
temperature, pressure, wind speed and direction, moisture content, precipitation, cloud …