Browsing by Subject "Scientific satellites"

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    • A system to determine the inertia tensor of small satellites 

      Gabarró Olsina, Marc (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-07-24)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Context: Attitude control of a satellite relies upon a precise determination of its inertia tensor. However, the determination of the inertia tensor of a complex system, as is the case of satellites, completely escapes ...

    • Automation of the determination of Inertia Tensors of CubeSats using torsion pendulum period measurements 

      Gutierrez Ibarra, Jon (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-09-07)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Contexto: Los CubeSats constituyen el estándar de satélites pequeños más extendido, prácticamente desde que fueron presentados a finales de la década de 1990. Los CubeSats revolucionaron la industria espacial. Gracias a ...

    • Benchmarking over satellite scheduling problem 

      Calvo Juan, Carlos (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-07-23)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      [ANGLÈS] The Earth Science Decadal Survey, organized by NASA, NPOESS and other American institutions, has proportioned an initial recommendation for the decade 2011-2020 consistent in a missions campaign taking care of the ...

    • Bus d'un microstaèl·lit en òrbita de la Terra 

      Borràs i Garallo, Jordi (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2006-12-20)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      En aquest treball es pretén realitzar el disseny basic, o disseny de fase A, d’un microsatèl•lit per a una missió en orbita al voltant de la Terra. L’objectiu d’aquesta missió es mesurar els efectes de la radiació ionitzant ...

    • Control de dispositivos y comunicación de datos en un observatorio submarino 

      Artero Delgado, Carola (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-07)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      El grupo de desarrollo SARTI de la UPC ha desarrollado el proyecto Observatorio Submarino Expandible (OBSEA). Este proyecto tiene como objetivo la puesta en marcha de los módulos necesarios para la extracción de datos ...

    • Design of a low-latency transoceanic shortwave radio link for high frequency trading applications 

      Vallès Muñoz, Maria (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-10-30)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      The main objective of this final Bachelor’s degree project is to design and study the relia-bility of a transoceanic shortwave radio link that connects London and New York. Two ofthe most important stock exchanges of the ...

    • Measuring phase scintillation at different frequencies with conventional GNSS receivers operating at 1 Hz 

      Nguyen, Viet Khoi; Rovira Garcia, Adrià; Juan Zornoza, José Miguel; Sanz Subirana, Jaume; González Casado, Guillermo; Hai Tung, Ta; The Vinh, La (2019-10-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      Ionospheric scintillation causes rapid fluctuations of measurements from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs), thus threatening space-based communication and geolocation services. The phenomenon is most intense in ...

    • Mission analysis for a swarm of femtosatellites to study the lower thermosphere 

      Aidynbay, Nurmakhan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-02-14)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      The lower thermosphere (between 100 and 250 km) is badly known due to the scarcity of operating satellites in this region. Nevertheless, it is very relevant for the study of Earth-Sun relations, satellite re-entry ...

    • Network Simulation/Emulation for performance study of E2E satellite-based Systems 

      Domingo Ribé, Marc (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-02)
      Master thesis
      12 months embargo
      As satellite-based systems become more popular and more complex; we witness a change of paradigm in the way of providing new services to end customers. Thus, future satellite segments are expected to be key components ...

    • On-board software testing and validation 

      Rodera Varea, Alejandro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06)
      Bachelor thesis
      Restricted access - confidentiality agreement

    • Receiving messages from operational CubeSats 

      Abellaneda López, Alejandro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-01-13)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      The main objective of this project is to introduce the necessary knowledge to be able to establish a reception of messages mainly from CubeSats. For this, previously topics such as telemetry and the radioelectric spectrum ...

    • Remote reception of messages from CubeSat OPS-SAT 

      García Quiroga, Isaac (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-01-13)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      The main objective of this thesis is to use the satellite ground station located on campus of ESEIAAT, Terrassa Ground Station, to receive and decode the messages transmitted by OPS-SAT, a nanosatellite built around the ...

    • Structural analysis of a CubeSat 

      Herrero Jovani, Álvaro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-07-14)
      Bachelor thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      This Treball Final de Grau consists on developing, executing and assessing the results of a series of FEM structural analyses aimed to demonstrate the that the 3CAT-4 nanosatellite complies with all necessary structural ...

    • Study of a low cost inertial platfom for a femto-satellite deployed by a mini-launcher 

      Bardolet Santacreu, Esteve (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2010-07-28)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access