Next generation CubeSats and SmallSats : enabling technologies, missions, and markets /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Branz, Francesco
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, 2023.
Temas:
Microspacecraft.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Next Generation CubeSats and SmallSats
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgment
  • List of Acronyms
  • 1 Setting the stage: history, context, and essential considerations
  • 1 Introduction
  • Reference
  • 2 The concept and history of small satellites
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Historical small satellite launch rates
  • 2.3 The start of the space age
  • 2.3.1 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics wins the first "race to space" using a microsatellite
  • 2.3.2 The United States enters the race
  • 2.4 The early space age
  • 2.4.1 US nanosatellites during the early space age
  • 2.4.2 Orbiting satellite carrying amateur radio joins the race
  • 2.4.3 Small satellites grow in mass: examples from NASA and the US Naval Research Laboratory
  • 2.4.4 Communications satellites started as small satellites
  • 2.4.5 The USSR tests the first "little LEO" communications constellation
  • 2.4.6 Early international small satellites
  • 2.4.7 Picosatellites flew in the 1960?
  • 2.5 The large space era
  • 2.5.1 Big launch vehicles and big spacecraft
  • 2.5.2 Picosatellites and nanosatellites become scarce
  • 2.5.3 AMSAT flies microcomputers
  • 2.5.4 Strela-1M and later series constellations
  • 2.5.5 ORBCOMM first-generation microsatellites
  • 2.5.6 Notable super-microsatellites
  • 2.5.6.1 Faster, better, cheaper
  • 2.6 The new space era
  • 2.6.1 Declining cost of capital during the new space era
  • 2.6.2 Ever-smaller spacecraft systems and subsystems
  • 2.6.3 Nanosatellites return
  • 2.6.4 Picosatellites stage a comeback, and start a revolution
  • 2.6.5 CubeSats are born
  • 2.6.6 CubeSats, cubic, and near-cubic small satellites
  • 2.6.7 The rise of CubeSat constellations
  • 2.6.8 Commercial constellations and megaconstellations
  • 2.6.9 Getting into orbit
  • 2.6.9.1 On-orbit propulsion
  • 2.6.9.2 Small satellites for GEO and beyond
  • 2.6.10 The People's Republic of China ascends
  • 2.7 Summary
  • References
  • 3 Comparing platform paradigms: CubeSats versus SmallSats
  • 3.1 Defining the platform: what is small
  • 3.2 Brief history of SmallSats: regular and pocketsize
  • 3.2.1 Regular small satellites
  • 3.2.2 The dawn of cube and pocket satellites
  • 3.2.3 Faster? Better? Cheaper?
  • 3.3 Performance: what metric(s) to compare
  • 3.4 Risk analysis and scaling for small satellites
  • 3.5 A look at increasing CubeSat reliability
  • 3.6 Summary
  • References
  • 4 Evolving capabilities and limitations of future CubeSat missions
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Electric power system
  • 4.3 On-board computer-command and data handling system
  • 4.4 Communications system
  • 4.5 Attitude determination and control system
  • 4.6 Orbit control system
  • 4.7 Thermal control system
  • 4.8 Deployable mechanisms
  • 4.9 Reliable and radiation tolerant electronics
  • 4.10 Satellite payloads
  • 4.10.1 Payloads for Earth observation

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