[HTML][HTML] Space sails for achieving major space exploration goals: Historical review and future outlook

M Berthet, J Schalkwyk, O Çelik, D Sengupta… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Space sails are a continuum of lightweight, thin, large-area, deployable
technologies which are pushing forward new frontiers in space mobility and exploration …

A comprehensive review of Electric Solar Wind Sail concept and its applications

M Bassetto, L Niccolai, AA Quarta, G Mengali - Progress in Aerospace …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Electric Solar Wind Sail (E-sail) is an innovative propellantless propulsion
system conceived by Pekka Janhunen in 2004 for use in interplanetary space. An E-sail …

Sustainable satellite communications in the 6G era: A European view for multilayer systems and space safety

M Höyhtyä, S Boumard, A Yastrebova… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During the New Space era small countries are becoming important players in the space
business. While space activities are rapidly increasing globally, it is important to make …

On-board computer for cubesats: State-of-the-art and future trends

A Cratere, L Gagliardi, GA Sanca, F Golmar… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past three decades, the acceptance of higher risk thresholds within the space
industry has facilitated the widespread integration of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) …

Aalto-1, multi-payload CubeSat: In-orbit results and lessons learned

MR Mughal, J Praks, R Vainio, P Janhunen, J Envall… - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
The in-orbit results and lessons learned of the first Finnish satellite Aalto-1 are briefly
presented in this paper. Aalto-1, a three-unit CubeSat which was launched in June 2017 …

Foresail-2: Space Physics Mission in a Challenging Environment

M Anger, P Niemelä, K Cheremetiev, B Clayhills… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Earth's radiation belts are extremely important for space weather because they can store
and accelerate particles to relativistic energies, which can have a potential impact on …

Electric sail mission expeditor, ESME: Software architecture and initial ESTCube lunar cubesat E-sail experiment design

MF Palos, P Janhunen, P Toivanen, M Tajmar… - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
The electric solar wind sail, or E-sail, is a novel deep space propulsion concept which has
not been demonstrated in space yet. While the solar wind is the authentic operational …

Development of the EIRSAT-1 CubeSat through functional verification of the engineering qualification model

S Walsh, D Murphy, M Doyle, J Reilly, J Thompson… - Aerospace, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Educational Irish Research Satellite (EIRSAT-1) is a 2U CubeSat developed at
University College Dublin. The project aims to build, test, launch, and operate Ireland's first …

[HTML][HTML] Interplanetary student nanospacecraft: Development of the LEO demonstrator ESTCube-2

J Dalbins, K Allaje, H Ehrpais, I Iakubivskyi, E Ilbis… - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nanosatellites have established their importance in low-Earth orbit (LEO), and it is common
for student teams to build them for educational and technology demonstration purposes. The …

Rapid optimization of continuous trajectory for multi-target exploration propelled by electric sails

M Huo, R Jin, J Qi, N Peng, L Yang, T Wang… - Aerospace Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As an innovative spacecraft propellantless propulsion technology, the electric sail can
generate electric fields that interact with the solar wind, generating continuous propulsive …