Formations of small satellites offer promising perspectives due to improved temporal and
spatial coverage and resolution at reasonable costs. The UWE-program addresses in-orbit …

Abstract Space exploration raises challenging autonomy requirements due to significant
signal propagation delays and data transmission interruptions in real-time critical situations …

This Paper is devoted to understand traditional relative navigation and models which are
used for small satellites. Compare the taraditional relative navigations models and …

The article is dedicated to research of possibility of monitoring (control and measurement) of
nano-satellites relative motion at the constellation to get data for mapping the gravity …

Since the first CubeSat launch in 2003, the hardware and software complexity of the
nanosatellites was continuosly increasing. To keep up with the continuously increasing …

In this paper a novel algorithm for estimating the satellite's semi-major axis is presented. The
procedure makes solely use of measurements of the magnitude of the magnetic field and it …

This paper considers the optical relative navigation method for the small satellites, describes
the algorithms of the image processing and calculating the relative distance and orientation …

The article is devoted to research of possibility of monitoring (measurement and control) of
picosatellites relative motion parameters during constellation. The paper considers the case …

The objective for the NetSat mission was to demonstrate formation flying at the level of four
nano-satellites in three-dimensional configurations. Here control approaches for efficient …

This paper presents the possibility of using the optical system with the GPS/GLONASS
receivers for high precision measurements of the relative distances between pico-satellites …