Small satellites have advanced over the last decade from experimental platforms to mission capable space assets delivering science and services to academia, commerce and government. Interoperable small satellites are effective for specific military missions and can operate individually, together in constellations, or autonomously in swarms for higher complexity missions.
Author(s): A. Hall; P. AllenJ. Martin; M. Trichas; J. Wickham-Eade 
DOI: 10.14339/STO-AVT-336-12 | ISSN: TBD
With the decrease in cost for launching into space, and growing customer demand, there has been an increasing number of smallsat constellations being brought to market, each with up to thousands of individual satellites. This increase in the number of satellites highlights the need for collision avoidance manoeuvre management and active debris removal (ADR) technologies to maintain a clean space environment. Airbus have developed and demonstrated a variety of ADR technologies, this paper specifically highlights the harpoon, net and robotic based capture
Author(s): M. Fragkopoulou; V. Alexiadis
DOI: 10.14339/STO-AVT-336-07 | ISSN: TBD
Space radiation is a constant threat for the success of a mission away from the Earth’s protective magnetosphere. During a mission of a satellite a high risk of coming into contact with different radiation environment types and events including galactic cosmic rays or solar particle events is occur. Radiation measurements of the mixed environment represent an excellent opportunity to improve the mission safety. HERADO has developed an innovative compact system having small dimension, low weight and high accuracy to measure the mix field of radiation environment
Author(s): Rafal Graczyk; Marcus Voelp
DOI: 10.14339/STO-AVT-336-13 | ISSN: TBD
Mitigating the risks associated with space system operations, especially in Low Earth Orbit, requires a holistic approach, which addresses, in particular, cybersecurity challenges, in addition to meeting the data acquisition requirements the mission needs. Space traffic management systems form no exception to this rule but are further constrained by backward compatibility requirements that sometimes are based on decades old foundations
Author(s): Erhan Topal; Berat Şevval Yeniçerioğlu; Selçuk Çelik; Duran Sayali; Vedat Kizilkaya
DOI: 10.14339/STO-AVT-336-1 | ISSN: TBD
In recent years, there has been a tendency to use micro and nano-class satellites for applications such as EO (Earth Observation) and AIS (Automatic Identification System) satellite systems. The number of satellites has also increased, to decrease the time resolution of the acquired data (such as revisit time) or to perform continuous services for applications such as IoT (Internet of Things).
| Activity Type: | Specialists' Meeting |
| Reference: | STO-AVT-336 |
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