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Design for demise applied to spacecraft structural panels and experiments for ClearSpace One platform

With growing awareness of the vulnerability of the near-Earth space region and the anticipated surge in satellite objects, efforts are underway to assess and implement various mitigation strategies. These aim to minimize the impact of space activities and ...

EPFL2024

Advancing spacecraft demisability through a novel composite bolt joint system: a step toward sustainable and safe space environments

Véronique Michaud, Alexandre Achille Looten, Muriel Richard, Antonio Caiazzo

From the recent awareness of the booming number of space debris and their derived worldwide re-entry event threat originating from the use of high survivability components, complementary mitigation measures must be taken for future orbital elements. In thi ...

2023

A Dynamic Multi-Region MFD Model for Ride-Sourcing Systems with Ridesplitting

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Caio Vitor Beojone

Dynamic network-level models directly addressing ride-sourcing services can be useful for the development of efficient traffic management strategies both for city and company operators. Recent developments presented models under equilibrium situations for ...

2022

Performance and Micro-Vibrations in Magnetic Bearings for Space Actuators

Guzmán Borque Gallego

The development of new space missions with novel high-performance and very sensitive payloads for Earth observation or scientific missions has imposed considerably tougher requirements in terms of the satellite's pointing accuracy and stability, and thus o ...

EPFL2021

Sun-synchronous repeat ground tracks and other useful orbits for future space missions

Sun Hee Kim, Luzius Gregor Kronig

The development of oceanography and meteorology has greatly benefited from satellite-based data of Earth's atmosphere and ocean. Traditional Earth observation missions have utilised Sun-synchronous orbits with repeat ground tracks due to their advantages i ...

2020

Small satellites for space science A COSPAR scientific roadmap

Volker Gass, Jie Wu, Maurice Borgeaud

This is a COSPAR roadmap to advance the frontiers of science through innovation and international collaboration using small satellites. The world of small satellites is evolving quickly and an opportunity exists to leverage these developments to make scien ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

First investigation of an all-fiber versatile laser frequency reference at 2 μm for CO2 lidar applications

Luc Thévenaz, Kenny Hey Tow

Nowadays, space-borne differential absorption lidar (DIAL) instruments are under investigation by space agencies to monitor the integrated column density or the atmospheric density profile of gaseous species from space to ground. ...

SPIE2016

Operation of a Concurrent Design Facility for university projects

Louis Antoine Masson, Anton Ivanov, Federico Belloni

Concurrent Design is a part of the systems engineering process, which has been widely adopted in space mission design. This paper describes the setting up a facility in a university and will try to answer a question of where the Concurrent Design Facility ...

IEEE2016

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

Potential of the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing telescope for the search for dark matter

Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy

Large observatory for x-ray timing (LOFT) is a concept of a next-generation x-ray telescope considered in the context of the "Cosmic Vision" program of the European Space Agency. The Large Area Detector on board of LOFT will be a collimator-type telescope ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

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