Publications related to Satellite constellation

The imprint of galaxy mergers on satellite planes in a cosmological context

Flattened and kinematically correlated planes of dwarf satellite galaxies have been observed in the Local Volume. The slinging out of satellites during host galaxy mergers has been suggested as a formation mechanism for these peculiar structures. We statis ...

2023

Re-entry survival analysis and ground risk assessment of space debris considering by-products generation

Pénélope Leyland, Stefano Mischler, Seong-Hyeon Park

Space debris that re-enter the Earth's atmosphere can be partially or fully ablated along the trajectory path after hitting the atmosphere layers, once these become denser (approximately below 82 km). This paper combines re-entry survival analysis to by-pr ...

2020

QUIC: Opportunities and threats in SATCOM

Ludovic Bernard Gérard Thomas, Emmanuel Qays Dubois

This article proposes a discussion on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats related to the deployment of QUIC end-to-end from a satellite-operator point-of-view. The deployment of QUIC is an opportunity for improving the quality of experienc ...

IEEE2020

X-ray pulsar-based GNC system for formation flying in high Earth orbits

Volker Gass, Camille Sébastien Pirat

In this paper, comprehensive pulsar-based Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) system is designed and applied to satellites formation flying. The complete autonomy of the X-ray pulsar navigation technology provides both absolute and relative positioning ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

On the relaxed maximum-likelihood blind MIMO channel estimation for orthogonal space-time block codes

Kamran Kalbasi

This paper concerns the maximum-likelihood channel estimation for MIMO systems with orthogonal space-time block codes when the finite alphabet constraint of the signal constellation is relaxed. We study the channel coefficients estimation subspace generate ...

ELSEVIER2020

Antennas for CubeSat Communication

Miroslav Veljovic

CubeSats are a type of small satellites (< 500 kg) that weigh several kilograms and consist of multiple Units (U) measuring 100 × 100 × 113.5 mm3. CubeSats emerged as a low-cost alternative to conventional large satellites, and have since demonstrated capa ...

EPFL2020

Four-Port Broadband Orthomode Transducer Enabling Arbitrary Interelement Spacing

Juan Ramon Mosig, Anja Skrivervik, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Tomislav Debogovic, Maria Garcia Vigueras, Santiago Capdevila Cascante, Esteban Menargues Gomez

This paper reports a novel methodology to design broadband orthomode transducers with two arbitrarily spaced ports carrying orthogonal linear polarizations. The component is based on a combination of two Boifot junctions through a series of power dividers ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Compact Orthomode Transducer with Broadband Beamforming Capability

Juan Ramon Mosig, Anja Skrivervik, Emile Jacques de Rijk

A compact and broadband orthomode transducer (OMT) with two dual linearly polarized ports is reported here for the first time. The component is based on a combination of two ridged Boifot junctions through a series of power dividers that act as an embedded ...

IEEE2018

SATELLITE CONSTELLATION DESIGN FOR THE SOLVE MISSION INVESTIGATING DIURNAL CYCLES OF VEGETATION PHENOMENA

Anton Ivanov, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Sung Wook Paek, Olivier Ladislas Alain de Weck

This paper discusses the problem of finding an optimal satellite constellation for the SOLVE (Satellites Observing Lakes and Vegetation Environments) Mission. A key requirement of this mission is a temporal resolution of several observations per day. A sem ...

2016

Tunable radiator for small satellite application

Jean-Daniel Landis, Frédéric Bongard, Pedro Robustillo Bayon, Nevena Saponjic, Tomislav Debogovic, Mikaël Krummen

A tunable radiator for space application has been developed to meet stringent requirements in terms of electrical and environmental specifications but also low mass, simple manufacturing and low cost. The element is based on the folded PIFA antenna, with s ...

2016

Low-profile multi-function antenna system for small satellites

Juan Ramon Mosig, Frédéric Bongard, Pedro Robustillo Bayon, Nevena Saponjic, Tomislav Debogovic, Ferdinando Tiezzi

A low-profile multi-function antenna system suitable for small satellites is presented in this paper. The antenna system operates at UHF frequency band (400 MHz) and comprises eight miniaturised radiating elements (REs) based on a folded planar inverted-F ...

2016

CMOS ASIC Design of Multi-frequency Multi-constellation GNSS Front-ends

Saeed Ghamari

With the emergence of the new global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) such as Galileo, COMPASS and GLONASS, the US Global Positioning System (GPS) has new competitors. This multiplicity of constellations will offer new services and a much better satell ...

EPFL2016

Mission Design and GNC for In-Orbit Demonstration of Active Debris Removal Technologies with CubeSats

Volker Gass, Muriel Richard, Camille Sébastien Pirat, Reto Wiesendanger, Federico Belloni, Christophe Dominique Paccolat

Within the frame of the ESA's General Support Technology Programme, two In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) missions using CubeSat technologies were studied. These IODs aim at alleviating the technical risk inherent to new technologies required for Active Debris ...

Elsevier2017

Parallel vs. Serial Inter-plane communication using TSVs

Giovanni De Micheli, Yusuf Leblebici, Somayyeh Rahimian Omam

3-D integration is a promising prospect for implementing high performance multifunctional systems-on- chip. Through Silicon Vias (TSVs) are the enablers for achieving high bandwidth paths in inter-plane communications. TSVs also provide higher vertical lin ...

2014

LLR Compression for BICM Systems Using Large Constellations

Bixio Rimoldi, Stefano Rosati

Digital video broadcasting (DVB-C2) and other modern communication standards increase diversity by means of a symbol-level interleaver that spans over several codewords. Deinterleaving at the receiver requires a large memory, which has a significant impact ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

MEMS Inertial Sensor to Measure the Gravity Gradient Torque in Orbit

Kaustav Ghose

Since the dawn of the Space Age, over six thousand satellites have been launched into Earth orbit. The function of determining the orientation of a satellite in orbit, so that it can point its antennas and instruments in the required direction is known as ...

EPFL2012

A New Planar Antenna Element For Ka-Band Applications

Juan Ramon Mosig, Jean-François Zürcher, Rafal Glogowski

One of the most promising bands for long-range radiocommunications is the Ka-band (25-40 GHz). This is due to the existence of a natural radio transmission window around 30 GHz. Both terrestrial and satellite transmission systems are planned on this freque ...

2011

HTPCP: GNSS-R multi-channel correlation waveforms post-process solution for GOLD-RTR Instrument

David Atienza Alonso, Yi Guo

Global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R) remote sensing is a new remote sensing technique of satellite navigation application. Essentially, it entails a method of remote sensing that receives and processes microwave signals reflected from ...

IEEE Press2010

Optimization of two GPS/MEMS-IMU integration strategies with application to sports

Jan Skaloud, Adrian Wägli

The application of low-cost L1 GPS receivers integrated with micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) inertial measurement units (IMU) allows the continuous observation of position, velocity and orientation which opens new possibilities for comparison orf at ...

Springer Verlag2009

Fabrication and Testing of a MEMS Based Earth Sensor

Herbert Shea, Kaustav Ghose

We present a novel MEMS inertial sensor that directly measures the gravity gradient in order to sense the relative orientation of a satellite with respect to the Earth. An Earths ensor provides an orbiting satellite with a vector towards the Earth center. ...

2009