Traditionally, the space industry produced large and sophisticated spacecraft handcrafted by
large teams of engineers and budgets within the reach of only a few large government …

CubeSats are a class of miniaturized satellites that have become increasingly popular in
academia and among hobbyists due to their short development time and low fabrication …

REGULUS is an Iodine-based electric propulsion system. It has been designed and
manufactured at the Italian company Technology for Propulsion and Innovation SpA (T4i) …

Highly ionic beams of several hundred microampere per squared centimeter have been
measured from porous glass ionic liquid electrospray sources fabricated using a …

REGULUS is a propulsion platform for CubeSats. It integrates the Magnetically Enhanced
Thruster (MET) and its subsystems (ie, fluidic line, electronics, and thermo-structural …

CubeSats have been extensively used in the past decade as scientific tools, technology
demonstrators and for education. Recently, PocketQubes have emerged as an interesting …

Micropropulsion systems are rapidly gaining attention from the small satellite community as
they can increase the mission lifetime and allow the satellite to perform complex maneuvers …

This paper presents a new multiple spacecraft full-coverage inspection path-planning
scheme to closely observe any large complex space structure hovering in space. For this …

We present current emission measurements from arrays of 480 porous ionic liquid ion
source emitters for applications in space propulsion and in the processing and analysis of …

We report the design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of dense, monolithic,
and planar arrays of externally-fed electrospray emitters with an integrated extractor grid and …