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Front Cover -- Next Generation CubeSats and SmallSats -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgment -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Setting the stage: history, context, and essential considerations -- 1 Introduction -- Reference -- 2 The concept and history of small satellites -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Historical small satellite launch rates -- 2.3 The start of the space age -- 2.3.1 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics wins the first "race to space" using a microsatellite -- 2.3.2 The United States enters the race -- 2.4 The early space age |
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2.4.1 US nanosatellites during the early space age -- 2.4.2 Orbiting satellite carrying amateur radio joins the race -- 2.4.3 Small satellites grow in mass: examples from NASA and the US Naval Research Laboratory -- 2.4.4 Communications satellites started as small satellites -- 2.4.5 The USSR tests the first "little LEO" communications constellation -- 2.4.6 Early international small satellites -- 2.4.7 Picosatellites flew in the 1960? -- 2.5 The large space era -- 2.5.1 Big launch vehicles and big spacecraft -- 2.5.2 Picosatellites and nanosatellites become scarce |
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2.5.3 AMSAT flies microcomputers -- 2.5.4 Strela-1M and later series constellations -- 2.5.5 ORBCOMM first-generation microsatellites -- 2.5.6 Notable super-microsatellites -- 2.5.6.1 Faster, better, cheaper -- 2.6 The new space era -- 2.6.1 Declining cost of capital during the new space era -- 2.6.2 Ever-smaller spacecraft systems and subsystems -- 2.6.3 Nanosatellites return -- 2.6.4 Picosatellites stage a comeback, and start a revolution -- 2.6.5 CubeSats are born -- 2.6.6 CubeSats, cubic, and near-cubic small satellites -- 2.6.7 The rise of CubeSat constellations |
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2.6.8 Commercial constellations and megaconstellations -- 2.6.9 Getting into orbit -- 2.6.9.1 On-orbit propulsion -- 2.6.9.2 Small satellites for GEO and beyond -- 2.6.10 The People's Republic of China ascends -- 2.7 Summary -- References -- 3 Comparing platform paradigms: CubeSats versus SmallSats -- 3.1 Defining the platform: what is small -- 3.2 Brief history of SmallSats: regular and pocketsize -- 3.2.1 Regular small satellites -- 3.2.2 The dawn of cube and pocket satellites -- 3.2.3 Faster? Better? Cheaper? -- 3.3 Performance: what metric(s) to compare |
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3.4 Risk analysis and scaling for small satellites -- 3.5 A look at increasing CubeSat reliability -- 3.6 Summary -- References -- 4 Evolving capabilities and limitations of future CubeSat missions -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Electric power system -- 4.3 On-board computer-command and data handling system -- 4.4 Communications system -- 4.5 Attitude determination and control system -- 4.6 Orbit control system -- 4.7 Thermal control system -- 4.8 Deployable mechanisms -- 4.9 Reliable and radiation tolerant electronics -- 4.10 Satellite payloads -- 4.10.1 Payloads for Earth observation |
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Microspacecraft.
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Petits véhicules spatiaux.
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Microspacecraft
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| Added Author |
Branz, Francesco.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0128245417 9780128245415 (OCoLC)1294139285 |
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Print version: Next generation CubeSats and SmallSats 9780128245415 (OCoLC)1372471160 |
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9780128245422 electronic book |
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0128245425 electronic book |
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9780128245415 |
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0128245417 |
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AU@ 000075109036 |
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UKMGB 020985326 |
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