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Next Generation CubeSats and SmallSats
Enabling Technologies, Missions, and Markets
Explains the rapidly changing world of miniature orbital platforms and next-generation technologies
Francesco Branz (Edited by), Chantal Cappelletti (Edited by), Antonio J. Ricco (Edited by), John Hines (Edited by)
9780128245415, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 25 August 2023
500 pages, 330 illustrations (30 in full color)
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.45 kg
Next Generation of CubeSats and SmallSats: Enabling Technologies, Missions, and Markets provides a comprehensive understanding of the small and medium sized satellite approach and its potentialities and limitations. The book analyzes promising applications (e.g., constellations and distributed systems, small science platforms that overachieve relative to their development time and cost) as paradigm-shifting solutions for space exploitation, with an analysis of market statistics and trends and a prediction of where the technologies, and consequently, the field is heading in the next decade. The book also provides a thorough analysis of CubeSat potentialities and applications, and addresses unique technical approaches and systems strategies. Throughout key sections (introduction and background, technology details, systems, applications, and future prospects), the book provides basic design tools scaled to the small satellite problem, assesses the technological state-of-the-art, and describes the most recent advancements with a look to the near future. This new book is for aerospace engineering professionals, advanced students, and designers seeking a broad view of the CubeSat world with a brief historical background, strategies, applications, mission scenarios, new challenges and upcoming advances.
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
Subject Areas: Aerospace & aviation technology [TRP], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK]
