Issue Small Satellites
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Right-sizing Small Satellites
Spacecraft standardization has been a topic of great debate within the space community. This paper intends to be a provocative thought piece asking one fundamental question: “is there a ‘right size’ for small satellites?” In order to answer this question, we propose three top-down design factors for the space systems engineering process: spacecraft utility, mission utility, and optimum cost. Sp...
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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is currently involved in the development of active membrane antenna technology for SAR applications. To qualify this new technology, it is proposed to develop a small satellite L-band SAR demonstrator. Such a demonstrator could be placed on the same orbit than the ALOS satellite for a tandem interferometric mission. The paper describes the initial science objecti...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the IEEE
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0018-9219,1558-2256
DOI: 10.1109/jproc.2018.2805267