Small Satellite Missions for Earth Observation: New Developments and Trends

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Overview on CNES Micro Satellites Missions: In Flight, Under Development and Next....Pages 3-18
Small Earth Observing Satellites Flying with Large Satellites in the A-Train....Pages 19-28
INTAμSat-1 First Earth Observation Mission....Pages 29-45
VENμS (Vegetation and Environment Monitoring on a New Micro Satellite)....Pages 47-65
The “Ulingo” Mid-Low Latitudes Observation (MILO) Mission....Pages 67-72
The Italian Precursor of an Operational Hyperspectral Imaging Mission....Pages 73-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Space System “Radiomet” for GLONASS/GPS Navigation Signal Radio Occultation Monitoring of Lower Atmosphere and Ionosphere Based on Super-Small Satellites....Pages 85-94
The Study of Electromagnetic Parameters of Space Weather, Micro-Satellite “Chibis-M”....Pages 95-102
SEPSAT – A Nanosatellite to Observe Parameters of Space Weather....Pages 103-111
Small Satellite Constellations for Measurements of the Near-Earth Space Environment....Pages 113-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Satellite Formation for a Next Generation Gravimetry Mission....Pages 125-133
EO Small Satellite Missions and Formation Flying....Pages 135-144
Relative Trajectory Design for Bistatic SAR Missions....Pages 145-154
Conceptual Design of the FAST-D Formation Flying Spacecraft....Pages 155-163
Earth Observation Using Japanese/Canadian Formation Flying Nanosatellites....Pages 165-174
A Bi/Multi-Static Microsatellite SAR Constellation....Pages 175-186
Mission Design of the Dutch-Chinese FAST Micro-Satellite Mission....Pages 187-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
SPRITE-SAT: A University Small Satellite for Observation of High-Altitude Luminous Events....Pages 197-206
SwissCube: The First Entirely-Built Swiss Student Satellite with an Earth Observation Payload....Pages 207-213
German Russian Education Satellite – Mission Outline and Objectives....Pages 215-221
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
University Microsatellites Equipped with an Optical System for Space Debris Monitoring....Pages 223-233
A First-MOVE in Satellite Development at the TU-München....Pages 235-245
Design of a Small Educational Satellite for the Italian High School Students: The EduSAT Project....Pages 247-255
Testing of Critical Pico-Satellite Systems on the Sounding Rocket Rexus-4....Pages 257-266
Laboratory Facility for Simulation and Verification of Formation Motion Control Algorithms....Pages 267-277
Asynchronous Parallel Reactive System for Intelligent Small Satellite on-Board Computing Systems....Pages 279-288
NanoSiGN – Nanosatellite for scientific interpretation of GNSS dual-frequency signals in the low Earth orbit....Pages 289-297
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
The Vegetation Instrument for the PROBA-V Mission....Pages 301-309
Software Defined LFM CW SAR Receiver for Microsatellites....Pages 311-320
PhytoMapper – Compact Hyperspectral Wide Field of View Instrument....Pages 321-330
Development of Spaceborne Small Hyperspectral sensor HSC-III for Micro Satellite....Pages 331-340
Towards a Miniaturized Photon Counting Laser Altimeter and Stereoscopic Camera Instrument Suite for Microsatellites....Pages 341-350
A Plan of Spaceborne ISAR Satellite Imaging System Aiming at Space Objects....Pages 351-360
Increasing the Data Volume Returned from Small Satellites....Pages 361-370
Integrated Design Based Plug-and-Play Small SAR Satellite Project....Pages 371-375
Front Matter....Pages 377-377
Star Sensor Development Based on the TUBSAT Experience....Pages 379-390
Small Sensors Big Choices....Pages 391-400
Robust and Fault Tolerant AOCS of the TET Satellite....Pages 401-410
Implementation of the T 3 μPS in the Delfi-n3Xt Satellite....Pages 411-424
A Novel AOCS Cold-Gas Micro-Propulsion System Design and Applications to Micro and Nano Satellites....Pages 425-435
Front Matter....Pages 437-437
Navigation Needs for ESA’s Earth Observation Missions....Pages 439-447
Benefits of Galileo for Future Satellite Missions....Pages 449-456
Differential GPS: An Enabling Technology for Formation Flying Satellites....Pages 457-465
GPS-Based Relative Navigation in Earth Observation Missions Relying on Cooperative Satellites....Pages 467-476
Back Matter....Pages 477-481