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 …

Intersatellite links or crosslinks provide direct connectivity between two or more satellites,
thus eliminating the need for intermediate ground stations when sending data. Intersatellite …

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) …

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

Small satellite communications recently entered a period of massive interest driven by the
uprising commercial and civil space applications and motivated by various technological …

Software Defined Radio (SDR) is a key area to realise new software implementations for
adaptive and reconfigurable communication systems without changing any hardware device …

This paper presents the design, development, and pre-launch characterization of the
ESTCube-1 Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS). The design driver for the …

This paper presents a novel low-power imaging system for nanosatellite proximity
operations. A robust independent camera module with on-board image processing, based …

Small satellite communications recently entered a period of massive interest driven by the
uprising space applications. CubeSats are particularly attractive due to their low …

REGULUS is a complete electric propulsion unit fed with iodine propellant that is under
development at Technology for Propulsion and Innovation21, an Italian based company …