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 …

The objective of the NetSat mission was to develop underlying technologies for small
satellite formation flying and to demonstrate it at the level of four nano-satellites in three …

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

Small satellites like CubeSats and Nanosatellites have been constantly evolving over the
last decades. Due to the minimization of development costs and time by using commercial …

Orbit control capabilities are essential to enable future formation flying of pico-satellites,
offering potential for placing efficient sensor networks in orbit. UWE-4 will demonstrate the …

Robustness is a key system design criterion for on-board data handling of modern space
vehicles. This contribution emphasizes for these objectives a distributed networked …

Over the past few years, On-Board Computing Systems for satellites have been facing a
limited level of modularity. Modularity is the ability to reuse and reconstruct the system from a …

The space environment poses several hazardous effects on the electronic components of
satellites. High energetic particles coming from the sun and stars can cause data corruption …

The pico-satellite UWE-3 has now completed almost one and a half years in orbit and
valuable experience has been gained over time. Its overall performance has been excellent …

This contribution describes the experimentation with this propulsion system under nominal
conditions. The thrust-to-power ratio of different propellants has been determined and the …