The transition from old space to new space along with increasing commercialization has a
major impact on space flight, in general, and on electric propulsion (EP) by ion thrusters, in …

Challenging space missions include those at very low altitudes, where the atmosphere is
source of aerodynamic drag on the spacecraft. To extend the lifetime of such missions, an …

Abstract The Satellite for Orbital Aerodynamics Research (SOAR) is a CubeSat mission, due
to be launched in 2021, to investigate the interaction between different materials and the …

Plasma simulation is an important, and sometimes the only, approach to investigating
plasma behavior. In this work, we propose two general artificial-intelligence-driven …

Despite the development of an extensive toolbox of multiscale rarefied flow simulators, such
simulations remain challenging due to the significant disparity of collisional and …

The utilisation of the Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) region offers significant application
specific, technological, operational, and cost benefits. However, attaining sustained and …

Radiation modeling is implemented in the highly parallel gas kinetic, open-source plasma
simulation suite PICLas. A photon Monte Carlo approach for three-dimensional radiative …

Challenging space missions include those at very low altitudes, where the atmosphere is the
source of aerodynamic drag on the spacecraft, that finally defines the mission's lifetime …

Vehicles undergoing hypersonic speed experience extreme aerothermodynamic conditions.
Real gas effects cannot be neglected, and thus internal degrees of freedom of molecules …

Observation missions of meteoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere are conducted
regularly. Meanwhile a method to replicate the flight in a ground test facilities has been …