Browsing by Subject "Scientific satellites"
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A system to determine the inertia tensor of small satellites
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-07-24)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessContext: 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 ... -
Attitude control techniques for a 1U CubeSat
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-07-13)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessThis thesis is focused on the study, design and simulation of an Attitude Control System for a 1U CubeSat. The simulations and their proper validation are carried out with MATLAB/Simulink. It is undertaken within the PLATHON ... -
Automation of the determination of Inertia Tensors of CubeSats using torsion pendulum period measurements
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-09-07)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessContexto: 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
(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
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2006-12-20)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open AccessEn 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 ... -
Challenge of teaching complex, end-to-end space system design and development process: Earth Observation Satellite System Design training course
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThe Earth Observation Satellite System Design training course was first offered in 2018 at ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Facility at ESA’s ESEC Galaxia site in Belgium, and again in 2021 in an online format under the ... -
Control de dispositivos y comunicación de datos en un observatorio submarino
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-07)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open AccessEl 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
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-10-30)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Further evidence of the long-term thermospheric density variation using 1U CubeSats
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
Conference lecture
Open AccessFaculty members, undergraduate and graduate students of the School of Communication and Aerospace Engineering (Polytechnical University of Catalonia) are participating in a series of studies to determine the thermospheric ... -
gLAB hands-on education on satellite navigation
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThe Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) allows computing the Position, Velocity and Time (PVT) of users equipped with appropriate hardware (i.e. an antenna and a receiver) and software. The latter estimates the PVT ... -
Implementació de un gimbal amb càmera per a un cubesat
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-07-08)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessAquest treball consistirà a desenvolupar i muntar un gimbal amb una càmera implementada, els objectius són els següents: dissenyar el hardware de la playload que permet moure la càmera i escollir un mètode de seguiment ... -
Implementación de una placa de control de actitud 2D con magnetopares para CubeSats
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-07-27)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessEl proyecto PLATHON (PLATaforma integrada de simulación Hardware-in-the loop para comunicaciones Opticas en Nanosatélites) se plantea mediante la colaboración estudiantil en forma de Trabajos de Fin de Grado a lo largo de ... -
Measuring phase scintillation at different frequencies with conventional GNSS receivers operating at 1 Hz
(2019-10-01)
Article
Open AccessIonospheric 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
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-02-14)
Master thesis
Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Mission analysis of nanosatellite constellations with OpenSatKit
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
Conference lecture
Open AccessCubeSat reliability is still considered an obstacle due to the sizeable fail rates generally attributed to the dead-on-arrival cases and early subsystem malfunctions. Thus, as CubeSats' primary purpose moves from technological ... -
Network Simulation/Emulation for performance study of E2E satellite-based Systems
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-02)
Master thesis
Open AccessAs 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
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06)
Bachelor thesis
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Project of attitude control system based on reaction wheels
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-07-22)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessThis project is included in the investigation group PLATHON, which has as the main objective the optical communication between satellites. In this investigation group there are included various parallel projects, which are ... -
Receiving messages from operational CubeSats
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-01-13)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessThe 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
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-01-13)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessThe 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 ...