Detecting celestial bodies while in deep-space travel is a critical task for the correct execution of space missions. Major bodies such as planets are bright and therefore easy to …
This paper investigates the use of pulsar-based navigation for deep-space CubeSats. A novel approach for dealing with the onboard computation of navigational solutions and …
Milani is a 6U CubeSat that will be released in the Didymos binary asteroid system by ESA's Hera spacecraft. Its objectives are to study and characterize the system's asteroids, thus …
Space economy is growing and an increasing number of satellites is expected to orbit in the Solar System. Current Deep-Space Network infrastructure can not manage the increasing …
Abstract The Lunar Meteoroid Impacts Observer (LUMIO) is a CubeSat mission to observe, quantify, and characterize the meteoroid impacts by detecting their flashes on the lunar …
In the framework of the Artemis-1 mission, 10 CubeSats will be released, including the 6U CubeSat ArgoMoon, built by the Italian company Argotec and coordinated by the Italian …
E Turan, S Speretta, E Gill - Advances in Space Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent advances in space technology provide an opportunity for small satellites to be launched in cislunar space. However, tracking these small satellites still depends on ground …
This paper outlines the collaborative efforts between the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson …
The Earth-Moon system is constantly bombarded by meteoroids whose scientific interest relies in the possibility to infer information about Solar System evolution and formation …