Ground station scheduling problem arises in spacecraft operations and aims to allocate ground stations to spacecraft to make possible the communication between operations teams and spacecraft systems. The problem belongs ...

Performing orbital insertion around Mars using aerocapture instead of a propulsive orbit insertion maneuver allows the saving of resources and/or the increase of the payload mass fraction. Aerocapture has never been employed ...

The LEDSAT 1U Cubesat, a satellite roughly 10x10x11cm, was developed between late 2016 and 2021 by students of Sapienza University of Rome. The project was conceived with the help of the University of Michigan and started ...

This paper explores an accurate and complete spacecraft six-degree-of-freedom coupled relative motion model using the dual quaternion representation. Based on this technique, we build a scheme capable of describing both ...

In this paper we characterise two embedded GPU devices from the NVIDIA Xavier family System-on-Chip (SoC) using a proton beam. We compare the NVIDIA Xavier NX and Industrial devices, that respectively target commercial and ...

Historically, planetary and lunar rovers have been wheeled-driven. While this is usually seen as an advantage –due to the flight experience– in some cases, the unavoidable presence of gears and mobile parts can be a ...