The concept of the OOS of spacecraft can be traced back to the 1960s, when the main focus
was on providing the necessary maintenance to advance the lifetime of spacecraft and …

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 …

With the rapid development of space technology and the increasing demand for space
missions, the traditional spacecraft manufacturing, deployment and launch methods have …

An architecture and conceptual design for a robotically assembled, modular space
telescope (RAMST) that enables extremely large space telescopes to be conceived is …

CubeSats are small satellites built in standard sizes and form factors, which have been
growing in popularity but have thus far been largely ignored within the field of astronomy …

This paper presents the design and characterization of a miniature docking mechanism for
nanosatellites. Potential applications are several, including servicing of orbital vehicles (eg …

Deployable optics promise a revolution in the capability of observing the universe by
delivering drastically reduced mass and volume needs for a desired level of performance …

A realistic rendezvous and docking navigation solution applicable to CubeSats is
investigated. The scalability analysis of the ESA Autonomous Transfer Vehicle Guidance …

This paper presents a distributed control law with disturbance observer for the autonomous
assembly of a fleet of flexible spacecraft to construct a large flexible space structure. The …

Current designs of the metastructure can hardly satisfy the demands of the continuous
advancement of space exploration. Thus, a new design strategy for the sandwiched …