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  • Architecting CubeSat constellations for messaging service, Part II 

    Osipova, Kseniia; Golkar, Alessandro; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Ruiz de Azua, Joan Adria; Contreras Benito, Luis Juan; Garzaniti, Nicola; Fernández Capón, Lara Pilar (2025-01)
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    Data collection and exchange stand as a cornerstone technology driving the advancement of technological development over recent decades. However, many remote and hard-to-reach regions remain devoid of terrestrial communication ...

  • Numerical analysis of laminar velocity-forced premixed slit flames using modal decomposition techniques 

    Rodriguez Pastor, Marc; Koumides, Phivos; Pérez Sánchez, Eduardo J.; García Tíscar, Jorge; Broatch Jacobi, Jaime Alberto; Mira Martínez, Daniel (Elsevier, 2024-11)
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    The relation between Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) and Flame Transfer Functions (FTF) is explored to gain further insight into the dynamics of two-dimensional laminar slit flames ...

  • Inter-Satellite Link Prediction with Supervised Learning: An Application in Polar Orbits 

    Ferrer Torres, Estel; Ruiz De Azúa Ortega, Juan Adrián; Betorz Martínez, Francesc; Escrig Escrig, Josep (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-07-04)
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    Distributed space systems are increasingly valued in the space industry, as they enhance mission performance through collaborative efforts and resource sharing among multiple heterogeneous satellites. Additionally, enabling ...

  • A computational methodology for invariant manifold connections between quasi-periodic libration point orbits in non-autonomous problems 

    Li, Ruilong; Masdemont Soler, Josep; Zhu, Zhanxia (Elsevier, 2024-09-03)
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    Semi-analytical and numerical techniques to systematically analyze and compute natural connections between quasi-periodic orbits associated to non-autonomous systems are considered. Focusing in the non-autonomous Sun–Earth+Moon ...

  • 3Cat-8 mission: a 6-Unit CubeSat for ionospheric multisensing and technology demonstration test-bed 

    Contreras Benito, Luis Juan; Osipova, Kseniia; Buitrago Leiva, Jeimmy Nataly; Gracia Sola, Guillem; Coppa, Francesco; Climent Salazar, Pau; Sopena Coello, Paula; Ramos Castro, Juan José; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-11-01)
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    This paper presents the mission analysis of 3Cat-8, a 6-Unit CubeSat mission being developed by the UPC NanoSat Lab for ionospheric research. The primary objective of the mission is to monitor the ionospheric scintillation ...

  • Computing and sharing the differential deformation of the ground at a continental level using public EGMS data 

    Shahbazi, Saeedeh; Navarro Esteban, José Antonio; Barra, Anna (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-02-02)
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    The European Ground Motion Service (EGMS), part of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, detects and measures land displacement on a European scale. This service provides reliable and consistent information regarding ...

  • Advantages of computing ROTI from single-frequency L1 carrier-phase measurements of geodetic receivers operating at 1 Hz 

    Yin, Yu; González Casado, Guillermo; Aragón Ángel, María Ángeles; Juan Zornoza, José Miguel; Sanz Subirana, Jaume; Rovira Garcia, Adrià; Timoté Bejarano, Cristhian Camilo; Orús Pérez, Raul (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
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    The customary procedure to compute the rate of total electron content index (ROTI) presents some limitations when using the geometry-free (GF) combination of Global Positioning System (GPS) L1 and L2 carriers tracked by ...

  • Architecting CubeSat constellations for messaging service, Part I 

    Osipova, Kseniia; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Golkar, Alessandro; Ruiz de Azua, Joan Adria; Fernández Capón, Lara Pilar; Garzaniti, Nicola (2024-10-01)
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    In today’s modern and globalized world, connectivity is a key factor for businesses, production facilities, sensor networks, and ordinary people. However, there are still populated areas which are not covered by ground-based ...

  • The 3Cat-4 spacecraft thermal analysis and thermal vacuum test campaign results 

    Buitrago Leiva, Jeimmy Nataly; Terraza Palanca, Ines; Contreras Benito, Luis Juan; Fernández Capón, Lara Pilar; Gràcia i Solà, Guillem; del Castillo Sancho, Cristina; Ha, Lily; Palma, David; Solyga, Malgorzata; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-09-30)
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    3Cat-4 is the fourth member of the CubeSat series of UPC’s NanoSat Lab, and it was selected by the ESA Academy’s Fly Your Satellite! program in 2017. This mission aims at demonstrating the capabilities of nano-satellites, ...

  • Assessment of noise of MEMS IMU sensors of different grades for GNSS/IMU navigation 

    Suvorkin, Vladimir; García Fernández, Miquel; González Casado, Guillermo; Li, Mowen; Rovira Garcia, Adrià (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-03-19)
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    Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are key components of various applications including navigation, robotics, aerospace, and automotive systems. IMU sensor characteristics have a significant impact on the accuracy and ...

  • Towards a second life for Zombie Satellites: Anomaly occurrence and potential recycling assessment 

    Buitrago Leiva, Jeimmy Nataly; El Khayati Ramouz, Mohamed; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Ruiz De Azúa Ortega, Juan Adrián (2024-04)
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    Thousands of rockets, spaceships, and satellites have been launched, resulting in a steady increase in the number of space debris notably in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary Orbit (GEO). Among the objects comprising ...

  • SOD2D: A GPU-enabled spectral finite elements method for compressible scale-resolving simulations 

    Silva, Lucas Gasparino Ferreira da; Spiga, Filippo; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol (2024-04)
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    As new supercomputer architectures become more heavily focused on using hardware accelerators, in particular general-purpose graphical processors, it is therefore relevant that algorithms for computational fluid dynamics, ...

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