CubeSat evolution: Analyzing CubeSat capabilities for conducting science missions

A Poghosyan, A Golkar - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Traditionally, the space industry produced large and sophisticated spacecraft handcrafted by
large teams of engineers and budgets within the reach of only a few large government …

Radiometer development for small satellite microwave atmospheric remote sensing

WJ Blackwell - 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in low-power millimeterwave low-noise amplifier technologies have
enabled the hosting of high-performance atmospheric sounding instruments on very small …

Cubesat observation of the radiation field of the south Atlantic anomaly

P Kovář, M Sommer - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The movement of the South Atlantic Anomaly has been observed since the end of the last
century by many spacecrafts equipped with various types of radiation detectors. All satellites …

Development of a pointing, acquisition, and tracking system for a nanosatellite laser communications module

KM Riesing - 2015 - dspace.mit.edu
Launch opportunities for small satellites are rapidly growing and their technical capabilities
are improving. Several commercial constellations of small satellites for Earth imaging and …

Assessment of radiometer calibration with GPS radio occultation for the MiRaTA CubeSat mission

AD Marinan, KL Cahoy, RL Bishop… - IEEE journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The microwave radiometer technology acceleration (MiRaTA) is a 3U CubeSat mission
sponsored by the NASA Earth Science Technology Office. The science payload on MiRaTA …

Performance analysis of algorithms for coordination of earth observation by CubeSat constellations

AK Kennedy, KL Cahoy - Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 2017 - arc.aiaa.org
Two algorithms that coordinate activities across a resource-constrained, Earth-observing
CubeSat constellation are presented. The Resource-Aware SmallSat Planner algorithm …

[PDF][PDF] 小卫星大气微波探测仪及其应用模拟研究

王振占, 孙艺玲, 王文煜, 张兰杰, 张子瑾, 李彬… - 遥感技术与应用, 2022 - rsta.ac.cn
小卫星大气微波探测仪技术是目前微波遥感技术的一个研究热点. 通过研制一台小卫星大气微波
探测仪(以下简称大气微波探测仪, 英文简称SAMS) 并搭载在我国的商业小卫星上 …

Technology development for small satellite microwave atmospheric remote sensing

WJ Blackwell - 2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in low-power millimeterwave low-noise amplifier technologies have
enabled the hosting of highperformance atmospheric sounding instruments on very small …

Automated resource-constrained science planning for the mirata mission

A Kennedy, A Marinan, K Cahoy, J Byrne, T Cordeiro… - 2015 - digitalcommons.usu.edu
We present a novel algorithm for science planning for the Microwave Radiometer
Technology Acceleration (MiRaTA) CubeSat mission that reasons about onboard resource …

Design and environmental testing of imaging payload for a 6 U CubeSat at low Earth orbit: KITSUNE mission

MHB Azami, NC Orger, VH Schulz, T Oshiro… - Frontiers in Space …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Earth observation (EO) missions remain a challenging task for small satellite platforms due
to their demanding requirements and space environment effects. In this study, the camera …