Fuzzy control allocation of microthrusters for space debris removal using CubeSats

Silva, Marsil de Athayde Costa e; Shan, Minghe; Cervone, Angelo; Gill, Eberhard

doi:10.1016/j.engappai.2019.02.008

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“…Nano satellites represent an emerging opportunity to pursue a broad set of mission goals, including science and space exploration [1,2], technology demonstration [3,4], debris removal [5], Earth Observation [6], and communications [7] at low cost and fast delivery. With the strong market demand for affordable space assets, there is little doubt that the number of small satellites will continue to grow [8].…”

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A Test Platform to Assess the Impact of Miniaturized Propulsion Systems

2020

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Miniaturized propulsion systems can enable many future CubeSats missions. The advancement of the Technology Readiness Level of this technology passes through the integration in a CubeSat platform and the assessment of the impact and the interactions of the propulsion systems on the actual CubeSat technology and vice versa. The request of power, the thermal environmental, and the electromagnetic emissions generated inside the platform require careful analyses. This paper presents the upgraded design and the validation of a CubeSat test platform (CTP) that can interface a wide range of new miniaturized propulsion systems and gather unprecedented information for these analyses, which can be fused with the commonly used ground support equipment. The CTP features are reported, and the main achievements of the tests are shown, demonstrating the effective capabilities of the platform and how it allows for the investigation of the mutual interactions at system level between propulsion systems and the CubeSat technology.

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