low-earth orbit missions
Orbit design for future SpaceChip swarm missions in a planetary atmosphere
... of low-cost manufacturing of vast number of micro-spacecraft for use in swarm ...in orbit from a CubeSat or as piggy-back on a conventional spacecraft, thus allowing significant launch cost ...and ...
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Orbit design for future SpaceChip swarm missions in a planetary atmosphere
... in orbit from a CubeSat or as piggy-back on a conventional spacecraft, thus allowing significant launch cost ...and low manufacturing costs reduce total mission cost and hence the employ- ment of ‘smart ...
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Remote automated multi generational growth and observation of an animal in low Earth orbit
... cost, low throughput, slow discovery rate and endangerment of human ...the Earth to help understand human biology [6]; its use for the space life sciences has also been demonstrated ...manned ...
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The role of high resolution geomagnetic field models for investigating ionospheric currents at low Earth orbit satellites
... Low Earth orbiting geomagnetic satellite missions, such as the Swarm satellite mission, are the only means to moni- tor and investigate ionospheric currents on a global scale and to make in situ ...
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Solar Arrays and Battery Power Sources Conceptual Design for Low Earth Orbit Microsatellites
... The three major types of solar cells available in the market are made of Silicon (Si), Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and multi-junction (triple junction). Table 2 summarizes the characteristics of selected solar cell ...
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SOLAR POWER PROFILE PREDICTION FOR LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITES
... various missions, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites are required to fulfill their requirements on power consumption to sustain their life in ...
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Initial Orbit Determination Error Analysis of Low-Earth Orbit Rocket Body Debris and Feasibility Study for Debris Cataloguing from One Optical Facility
... radar is a part of the larger Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, which is one of three sites that constitute the NASA Deep Space Network [22]. Nominally tasked with communicating with deep space ...
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Semi-analytical solution for the optimal low-thrust deflection of near-Earth objects
... a low-thrust action, inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the Sun, is applied to the ...minimum orbit interception distance from the Earth’s orbit is computed through proximal ...
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Lesson 13 - The International Space Station.doc
... Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field help protect us from the Sun's ______________. Low Earth orbit is within the magnetic field, so missions there are somewhat protected from radiation. But ...
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Assessing extraterrestrial regolith material simulants for in-situ resource utilization based 3D printing
... in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), a return to the Moon and both manned and unmanned missions to the planet Mars are the next human centric goals set by the major space agencies ...
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End-of-life disposal concepts for libration point orbit and highly elliptical orbit missions
... LCROSS missions already ended by crashing on sites of special interest to gather new data on the lunar environment and also that the planetary protection policy is not a matter of concern for the ...past ...
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The Cost of Clean Space- A Study of the Additional Fuel Costs of Launching Above Low Earth Orbit
... removal missions involve sending spacecraft into orbit which grab pieces of orbital debris and then drag them down to the upper atmosphere where they can burn ...
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Comparative Analysis Study of Optical Intersatellite links for Different Both Transmission Bit Rates and Operating Wavelengths
... A satellite is an object rotate around another object in the space [1]. Satellite connectivity has the power to drive communication advances across aboard range of industries and geographies [2-4]. Communication ...
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Sunlight effects on the 3D polar current system determined from low Earth orbit measurements
... From satellites at sufficiently low altitudes, the associ- ated magnetic field is readily detectable. It was magnetic field measurements from ∼800 km altitude, using the TRIAD satellite, that enabled Iijima and ...
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Conical Linear Spiral Antenna for Tracking, Telemetry and Command of Low Earth Orbit Satellites
... Abstract—Conical log spiral antennas are famous for being appro- priate for tracking, telemetry and command (TT&C) applications in low earth orbit (LEO) satellites. In this work, a conical linear ...
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Trajectory Design and Optimization for LEO Satellites in Formation to Observe GEO Satellites’ Beams
... DOI: 10.4236/ijaa.2018.84026 380 International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics reference satellite’s orbits and the central line of the corresponding target beams are no more than 100 km, which means that most of ...
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Hybrid low-thrust transfers to eight-shaped orbits for polar observation
... from low Earth orbit (LEO) to so-called eight-shaped orbits at the collinear libration points in the circular restricted three-body problem are ...elliptic orbit. From there, the ...
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Automatic planning and scheduling of active removal of non-operational satellites in low earth orbit
... As introduced in Section II, the two proposed ADR strategies are analogous to the typical TSP and VRP. In particular, the De-Orbit Kit strategy is equivalent to the TSP where the goal is to minimize the total ...
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Atmospheric influences on infrared-laser signals used for occultation measurements between Low Earth Orbit satellites
... Hence, the MW and SWIR parts of LMIO measurements can in principle be combined directly above about 9 km to 13 km, using the MW heights also for the SWIR data. Be- low, the difference between the tangent point ...
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Diagnosing low earth orbit satellite anomalies using NOAA 15 electron data associated with geomagnetic perturbations
... The largest numbers of anomalies appeared in two sectors: the noon-to-dusk and dusk-to-midnight sec- tors. This pattern is similar to that reported by Lam and Hruska (1991), who found anomalies mostly distributed within ...
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