Publications related to Docking and berthing of spacecraft

GPS based navigation performance analysis within and beyond the Space Service Volume for different transmitters’ antenna patterns

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Paul David Blunt, Endrit Shehaj

In the last years, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based navigation in high earth orbits (HEOs) has become a research field of interest, since it can increase the spacecraft’s autonomy, reducing the operating costs. However, the GNSS availability ...

2017

The Gaia mission

Stephan Morgenthaler, Mikaël Martino, Shuangqing Liao, Daniela Werner

Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original interferometric concept was changed to a direct-imaging approach. Both the ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

DEVELOPING A RELIABLE CAPTURE SYSTEM FOR CLEANSPACE ONE

Pierre-Alain Mäusli, Muriel Richard, Camille Sébastien Pirat, Régis Voillat, Timothée Robert Sophus Frei, Xavier Collaud, Bastien Gorret, Michel Lauria

The objectives of the CleanSpace One mission are to raise the awareness of the orbital debris problem, develop and test technologies for non-cooperative rendezvous and as a demonstration, de-orbit the SwissCube satellite. Within this project and over the l ...

2016

Performance and Applications of Ionic Electrospray Micro-Propulsion Prototypes

Herbert Shea, Simon Dandavino, Daniel George Courtney

Electric propulsion systems using electrospray ion sources are a scalable and high specific impulse technology which could enable small spacecraft to perform high ΔV missions. This paper presents an overview of a recently developed source design which achi ...

2015

Antihypertensive drugs metabolism: an update to pharmacokinetic profiles and computational approaches

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Aikaterini Zisaki

Drug discovery and development is a high-risk enterprise that requires significant investments in capital, time and scientific expertise. The studies of xenobiotic metabolism remain as one of the main topics in the research and development of drugs, cosmet ...

Bentham Science Publishers2015

FEASIBILITY STUDY OF GNSS AS NAVIGATION SYSTEM TO REACH THE MOON

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano

Reaching the Moon poses very strict requirements in terms of performance, flexibility and cost for all the spacecraft subsystems. These requirements become more stringent if the mission is designed to be accomplished using a small spacecraft. The navigatio ...

Elsevier2015

Microfabricated electrospray emitter arrays with integrated extractor and accelerator electrodes for the propulsion of small spacecraft

Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino, Daniel George Courtney, Subha Chakraborty

Microfabricated electrospray thrusters could revolutionize the spacecraft industry by providing efficient propulsion capabilities to micro and nano satellites (1–100 kg). We present the modeling, design, fabrication and characterization of a new generation ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

Experimental progress towards the MicroThrust MEMS electrospray electric propulsion system

Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino, Subha Chakraborty

This paper describes the experimental progress towards an operational microfabricated electrospray thruster, as part of the EU FP7 “MicroThrust” Project. Microfabrication of an electrospray multiplexed thruster allows the seamless manufacturing of arrays o ...

2013

Uncooperative Rendezvous and Docking for MicroSats

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Herbert Shea, Volker Gass, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Muriel Richard, Federico Belloni, Oluwaseun Adelowo Araromi, Christophe Dominique Paccolat, Irina Gavrilovich

This paper proposes a solution to perform active debris removal with a cost effective microsatellite. A complex aspect of debris removal in space is the detection and positive identification of the debris, medium to close approach as well as the orbital re ...

2013

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Docking and berthing of spacecraft

GPS based navigation performance analysis within and beyond the Space Service Volume for different transmitters’ antenna patterns

The Gaia mission

DEVELOPING A RELIABLE CAPTURE SYSTEM FOR CLEANSPACE ONE

Performance and Applications of Ionic Electrospray Micro-Propulsion Prototypes

Antihypertensive drugs metabolism: an update to pharmacokinetic profiles and computational approaches

FEASIBILITY STUDY OF GNSS AS NAVIGATION SYSTEM TO REACH THE MOON

Microfabricated electrospray emitter arrays with integrated extractor and accelerator electrodes for the propulsion of small spacecraft

Microfabricated Electrospray Thrusters for a Modular Spacecraft Propulsion System

Experimental progress towards the MicroThrust MEMS electrospray electric propulsion system

Uncooperative Rendezvous and Docking for MicroSats

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FEASIBILITY STUDY OF GNSS AS NAVIGATION SYSTEM TO REACH THE MOON

Experimental progress towards the MicroThrust MEMS electrospray electric propulsion system

DEVELOPING A RELIABLE CAPTURE SYSTEM FOR CLEANSPACE ONE

Performance and Applications of Ionic Electrospray Micro-Propulsion Prototypes

The Gaia mission

Microfabricated Electrospray Thrusters for a Modular Spacecraft Propulsion System

Uncooperative Rendezvous and Docking for MicroSats

GPS based navigation performance analysis within and beyond the Space Service Volume for different transmitters’ antenna patterns

Antihypertensive drugs metabolism: an update to pharmacokinetic profiles and computational approaches

Microfabricated electrospray emitter arrays with integrated extractor and accelerator electrodes for the propulsion of small spacecraft