Next generation CubeSats and SmallSats : enabling technologies, missions, and markets /: enabling technologies, missions, and markets. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Francesco Branz, Chantal Cappelletti, Antonio J. Ricco, John Hines.
• Editors: Branz, Francesco; Cappelletti, Chantal; Ricco, Antonio J; Hines, John
• Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The Concept and History of Small Satellites; 3. Comparing Platform paradigms: CubeSats vs. SmallSats; 4. Evolving capabilities and limitations of future CubeSat missions; 5. Legal Framework of Space Exploitation in the NewSpace Era; 6. Ethical Insights Toward a Moral Assessment of CubeSats Technologies; 7. Additive Manufacturing for CubeSat Structure Fabrication; 8. Mechanisms; 9. Introduction to CubeSat Power Systems; 10. Attitude Determination and Control; 11. Electro-Optical-based relative navigation; 12. Control Architectures and Algorithms; 13. Thermal Control Subsystem; 14. Radio Frequency Telecommunication Systems for CubeSats and SmallSats; 15. Optical Communication; 16. Command and Data Handling Systems; 17. Innovative and low-cost launch systems; 18. Chemical and Cold Gas Propulsion Systems; 19. Dual-mode propulsion systems for SmallSats; 20. Electric propulsion systems; 21. Propellant-less systems; 22. Close Proximity Operations, Formation Flying, and On-Orbit Servicing; 23. Overview of the New Space CubeSat market; 24. Spectroscopy on CubeSats and SmallSats; 25. Microbial biology on CubeSats; 26. The STARS series of nanosatellite missions; 27. The UVSQ-SAT mission; 28. Future perspectives
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (500 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 629.46; Microspacecraft
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128245422
• Related ISBNs: 9780128245415
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