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    • Proceedings of 4th edition Symposium on Space Educational Activities : April 27th, 28th, 29th 2022, Barcelona, Spain : inspiring through space 

      Sureda Anfres, Miquel; García-Almiñana, Daniel; Detrell Domingo, Gisela; García Rigo, Alberto; García Alarcia, Ramón M.; Megías Homar, Guillem; González Díez, David (2022-07)
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      The 4th Symposium on Space Educational Activities (4th SSEA) was hosted at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) · BarcelonaTech in Barcelona, Spain, from 27th – 29th April 2022. It was co-organized by the European ...
    • From Soyuz-docking manoeuvres to microalgae cultivation: hands-on training for Master's students 

      Detrell, Gisela; Wenzel, Sebastian; Bosch Bruguera, Miquel; Maheswaran, Tharshan; Grass, Markus; Martin, Johannes; Vogel, Moritz (2022-04-29)
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      A strong connection between research and teaching at a university is crucial to offer students a unique opportunity to put in practice the concepts taught in theoretical lectures. At the University of Stuttgart, several ...
    • AMORE - Mission concept overview for a progressively independent and self-sustainable lunar habitat 

      Joshi, Apoorva; Korn, Christian; Magkos, Michail; Amara, Yassin; Anil, Abhishek; Bhattacherjee, Souktik; Dargent de Vicente, Sisinio; Haffmans, Patrick; Heinz, Nicolas; Hinkel, Andrea; Karakas, Merve; Kolchin, Aleksandar; Mani, Vipul; Skrypnyk, Ilja; Stadtmüller, Anne (2022-04-29)
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      Throughout the last decade a renewed interest for lunar space exploration has been expressed through the announcements of many ambitious missions such as Artemis. Annually the Space Station Design Workshop (SSDW) tasks ...
    • Thermal characterization testing of a robust and reliable thermal knife HDRM (Hold Down and Release Mechanism) for CubeSat deployables 

      Thompson, Joseph; Murphy, David; Reilly, Jack; Salmon, Lána; Dunwoody, Rachel; Doyle, Maeve; Walsh, Sarah; Reddy Akarapu, Sai Krishna; Erkal, Jessica; Finneran, Gabriel; Mangan, Joseph; Marshall, Fergal; Franchi, Loris; Ha, Lily; Palma, David; Ulyanov, Alexey; Martin-Carrillo, Antonio; McBreen, Sheila; O'Connor, William; Wall, Ronan; Hanlon, Lorraine; McKeown, David (2022-04-29)
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      Thermal knife HDRMs (Hold Down and Release Mechanisms) are commonly used in CubeSats and other small satellites. However, detailed information on proven designs is difficult to find. Design of a robust and reliable mechanism ...
    • Implementation of space clubs in Kenya 

      Mwangi, Charles; Kelelue, Malkia (2022-04-29)
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      The Kenya Space Agency Strategic Plan 2020-2025 identified the need for capacity building in infrastructure and human resource as a priority focus area to enable Kenya to tap into the potential of the space industry. With ...
    • Design challenges, and outcomes of building a satellite the size of a soda can 

      Perez, Rovin; Abadzhieva, Slaveya (2022-04-29)
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      A Mach contest is part of an annual event, organized by UKLSL, which combines both CanSat and rocket competitions. The first Mach event in 2021 was focused on the design of “Simple and Advance CanSats”, and culminated on ...
    • RITA: a 1U multi-sensor Earth observation payload for the AlainSat-1 

      Pérez Portero, Adrián; Fernandez Capon, Lara Pilar; Badia Ballús, Marc; Fabregat, P.; Rayon, L.; Gonga Siles, Amadeu; Crisan, Ieremia; Garcia, A.; Munuera Vilalta, Mar; Contreras, L.; Ramos Castro, Juan José; Jallad, A.H.; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (2022-04-29)
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      The Remote sensing and Interference detector with radiomeTry and vegetation Analysis (RITA) is one of the Remote Sensing payloads selected as winners of the 2nd GRSS Student Grand Challenge in 2019, to fly on board of the ...
    • JSRI space design competitions: Education and outreach for emerging space countries 

      El Shawa, Sahba; Alzurikat, Merna; Sha’ar, Zaina Abu; Ashhab, Moh'd Sami (2022-04-29)
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      As countries around the world are racing towards realizing the common dream of humans creating long-term habitats in space, emerging space countries like Jordan, with no established space agency, are struggling to participate ...
    • What they want and what they need: the new role of the jurist in assisting the young space companies 

      Zara, Maura; Kaur Alag, Sifat (2022-04-29)
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      'New Space' economy is an all-inclusive concept that synthesises a real economic revolution in the space industry. It is characterised by the proliferation of new private actors that operate separately from institutional ...
    • The role of the key educational paths for ESA new member states as a risk reduction index for the newcomers 

      Malinowska, Katarzyna; Szwajewski, Michał (2022-04-29)
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      The new ESA member states are an important factor in the development of European sustainability and independence in space. Cooperation between European countries in the field of space, gives a strong conviction that we ...
    • Establishment of the Space Engineering Program in Hungary 

      Bacsardi, Laszlo; Csurgai Horvath, Laszlo (2022-04-29)
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      The Hungarian space age started in 1946 with the successful Lunar Radar experiment by Zoltán Bay. In the past 75 years, the Hungarian space sector evolved and grew dramatically, achieving international recognition in space ...
    • ERMES: Design and preliminary simulations for an autonomous docking manoeuvre 

      Bortotto, Alessandro; Agli, Giuliano degli; Favotto, Federico; Mattiazzi, Fabio; Mihailovic, Miroljub; Pozzato, Nicola; Branz, Francesco; Olivieri, Lorenzo; Caon, Alex; Francesconi, Alessandro (2022-04-29)
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      In the last decades, small satellites have played an important role in space missions. Due to their reduced dimension and costs, they became affordable to smaller companies and research laboratories to conduct scientific ...