Abstract:CubeSat reliability is still considered an obstacle due to the sizeable fail rates generally attributed to the dead-on-arrival cases and early subsystem malfunctions. Thus, as CubeSats' primary purpose moves from technological demonstrations and university projects to missions where a significant risk of failure is not acceptable, an inexpensive method to emulate low Earth orbit constellations is being researched. The results presented have been developed in the framework of the PLATHON research project, which… Show more
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