Asteroid flyby opportunities using semi-autonomous CubeSats: Mission design and science opportunities

P Machuca, JP Sanchez, S Greenland - Planetary and Space Science, 2019 - Elsevier
CubeSat technology has recently attracted great interest from the scientific community,
industry and space agencies, and represents today an exciting movement towards a more …

Initial flight results of the RAX-2 satellite

J Springmann, B Kempke, J Cutler, H Bahcivan - 2012 - digitalcommons.usu.edu
Abstract The second Radio Aurora Explorer satellite, RAX-2, is a triple CubeSat studying the
formation of plasma irregularities in Earth's ionosphere. The spacecraft was developed …

Radio aurora explorer: A mission overview

JW Cutler, H Bahcivan - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2014 - arc.aiaa.org
The primary objective of the Radio Aurora Explorer mission is to study plasma instabilities
that lead to magnetic field aligned irregularities of electron density in the lower polar …

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 …

[图书][B] Attitude control of nanosatellites using shifting masses

S Chesi - 2015 - search.proquest.com
Since the development of the CubeSat standard, the number of nanosatellites developed by
universities, federal agencies and commercial companies has greatly increased as well as …

[PDF][PDF] On-board data handling for ambitious nanosatellite missions using automotive-grade lockstep microcontrollers

H Leppinen, A Kestilä, P Pihajoki… - … Systems and Services …, 2014 - researchgate.net
After a decade of experimental nanosatellite projects, the past few years have seen a
growing trend of utilizing nanosatellites in more complex scientific and commercial missions …

Advanced autonomy for low cost ground stations

A Freimann, A Kleinschrodt, M Schmidt… - IFAC Proceedings …, 2013 - Elsevier
Over the past years many low cost ground stations were established in the scope of small
satellite missions. In this context low cost means, that they are mainly composed of …

Analysis of the microsized microwave atmospheric satellite (MicroMAS) communications anomaly

AD Marinan, AGAGI Hein, ZT Lee, AK Carlton, K Cahoy… - 2018 - dspace.mit.edu
The Micro-sized Microwave Atmospheric Satellite (MicroMAS) is a dual-spinning 3U
CubeSat equipped with a passive microwave spectrometer that operated nine channels …

Clock synchronization on the RAX spacecraft

JC Springmann, BP Kempke, JW Cutler, H Bahcivan - Acta Astronautica, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) is a CubeSat that was developed to study space
weather in Earth׳ s ionosphere. The scientific payload is a bistatic radar system in which an …

Resource-constrained avionics design for CubeSats

JM Byrne Jr - 2016 - dspace.mit.edu
We present an optimization approach to CubeSat avionics design which considers the
consumption of some resources (electrical power, volume) and production of others …