A low-cost femtosatellite to enable distributed space missions

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 64, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1123-1143

  Barnhart, David J ^a   Vladimirova, Tanya ^a   Baker, Adam M ^b   Sweeting, Martin N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR NODES; SPACE FLIGHT; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AEROSPACE SYSTEMS; COMMERCIAL PRODUCTIONS; CUSTOM MANUFACTURING; DISTRIBUTED SATELLITE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; HIGH COSTS; HIGH DENSITIES; LOW COSTS; MASS-PRODUCIBLE; MULTI-POINT SENSING; NEW CLASS; ORBITAL DYNAMICS; PICO-SATELLITES; SATELLITE CONCEPTS; SCIENCE OBJECTIVES; SMALL SATELLITE DESIGNS; SPACE MISSIONS; SPACE-BASED; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS; TEST RESULTS; UNIT COSTS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 63549097733     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.01.025     Document Type: Article

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