Next Generation Cubesats and Smallsats: Enabling Technologies, Missions, and Markets

ISBN-13: 9780128245415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Francesco Branz; Chantal Cappelletti; Thomas Sinn

Spis treści

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