The collection of images presented include new science results from NASA's GOLD


What's important is that we've managed to collect this huge data set that supports the Juno mission


This NGGM LTI instrument based on LRI will allow ultra-precise satellite to satellite tracking (SST)


A diplexer divides the signal into 18/24 GHz and 34 GHz channels


REPTile: A relativistic electron and proton detector small enough to meet CubeSat requirements


We can see the jets shooting out in different directions on a timescale of less than an hour


The MIGHTI design allows for a smaller and lighter interferometer


The impact of the ~560 kg DART spacecraft at 6 km/s


VAMOS is a DLR/GSOC software experiment with the objective to schedule and (re-)command tasks


Spectral wavelengths Line 1: 460-560 nm (green) Line 2: 565-725 nm (red) Line 3: 790-930 nm (NIR)


Inserted into heliocentric orbits in December 2008 (Ahead) and January 2009 (Behind)


CRAND was likely the source of high-energy protons trapped in Earth's magnetic field


Record the electromagnetic situation of earthquakes above 6 magnitude in China and quakes above 7 magnitude all over the world


Scientists on the Kepler mission developed an algorithm called Robovetter to help sort through the massive amounts of data produced by the Kepler spacecraft


Scientists report the existence of 15 new planets


Using the Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSPEC) on Keck II, heat from electrically charged hydrogen molecules (H3+ ions) in Jupiter's atmosphere was traced from the planet's poles down to the equator


The science objectives of the SORTIE mission are: 1) Discover the sources of wave-like plasma perturbations in the F-region ionosphere


GEOSAT's first long altimetry mission - played important role in geodesy, geophysics, oceanography & glaciology


Jupiter's atmospheric jet streams extend thousands of kilometres deep


A 256 bits HMAC as a pseudorandom function


The goal is to measure differential fluxes of relativistic electrons in the energy range of 0.5-2.9 MeV and protons in 10-40 MeV


With a pixel array of 1280 x 1280 pixels


The AMR-C Radiometer and the Star Trackers are mounted on the Payload front panel


Sentinel-6 /Jason-CS will be an essential observing system for sea-level-rise monitoring, coastal zones altimetry, operational oceanography, seasonal forecast and marine meteorology


The overall program objectives are to provide an environment for frequent, inexpensive, on-orbit demonstrations of emerging space system technologies and to accelerate their transition into operational use


Kepler utilizes photometry to detect planet’s transiting their parent star


This circuit has a higher bandwidth and it is optimized for data reception


This releases a large amount of energy in all spectral bands, from gamma rays through to visible and infrared


DART is beginning to look like the intrepid spacecraft that will aim itself directly into an asteroid


For the Sun-Earth analogy the probability is 0.5%


Yutu-2 rover is expected to complete its 32nd lunar day July 16


INTEGRAL detected high-energy auroral X-rays on 10 November 2015


A strong magnetic field typically points to a young neutron star


Data from the Ultraviolet Spectrograph instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft


The INTEGRAL spacecraft was launched on 17 October 2002


Offers an effective means of a twice-daily coverage capability


Inspection of the 1.4 meter primary mirror honeycomb structure


GPS receiver Position of the capsule during re-entry and after landing


The Biopan facility is attached to the outside of Foton-M3 to expose the experiment samples directly to the space environment


July 12, 2016: The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational


Communications with STEREO-B were lost on Oct. 1, 2014, due to multiple hardware anomalies affecting control of the spacecraft orientation


The average temperature in the planet's upper atmosphere should be about minus 100 º Fahrenheit or a chilly minus 73º Celsius


By using both OGS-OP and TOGS for diversity, the theoretical mean daily throughput is further increased and reaches values of roughly 1 Tbit per day


It will also demonstrate the use of a passive de-orbiting system


On 8 December (Sunday), ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA flight engineer Drew Morgan will man the space station’s Canadian-built robot arm to capture the Dragon supply ship


These services will be aligned with those of the Sentinel-3 missions


The first data products, which were low-resolution products, were released in June


Advanced GPS/GLONASS Application Specific Integrated Circuit


Computation of a voltage proportional to attitude (VATT) based on the amplitude of the last eight waveform samples


The requirement for the precision of the alignment of the optical axes of the optical bench depends on the smallest divergence used. The boundary value for the alignment error should be ±3σ, which leads to a maximum misalignment of 30 µrad for the optical axes of the tracking sensor and the collimators


Shortcomings in the system design owing to the military objectives of the mission


It will provide measurements of sea surface height, significant wave height, and wind speed


Contain up to 10 times more iron than the Sun's atmosphere


The size of the planet is found from the depth of the transit (how much the brightness of the star drops) and the size of the star


RAD750 flight processor with 256 MB of flash memory and 128 MB of DRAM local memory


PCDU (Power Control and Distribution Unit, ESP)


A simulated data curve obtained assuming a total ion concentration or 105 cm-3


The GNSS-RO instrument is added to Sentinel-6 as a secondary mission to provide radio occultation observation services to meteorological users


While we anticipate flight operations ending soon


Ground track separation at equator, acute angle at equator crossings 315 km, 39.5º


September 11, 2019 - The MANTIS contract was signed


Deploying quantum light sources on nanosatellites II: lessons and perspectives on CubeSat spacecraft


Must fit inside a standard Delta II launch vehicle


The Tianwen 1 mission's ultimate goal is to land a rover in May or June on the southern part of Mars' Utopia Planitia


Another possible source of gravitational waves would be an asymmetric supernova explosion


PSLV-C9 launched successfully with 10 satellites


"Extreme Ultra Violet Imaging Spectrograph (EUV)," URL: http://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/instruments/euv/


One of the most prominent terrestrial airglow features is the OII 83.4 nm triplet emission. The strongest "initial source" of photons is solar photoionization of neutral atomic oxygen around 160-175 km


Within days of a picture-perfect launch on July 19


DART through its 10-month journey toward its asteroid target


Pointing directions of payloads (sensors) or solar arrays Sun, Earth, nadir, zenith


SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) 2 MByte


It takes just 14 hours, 50 minutes for Juno to travel the 735,000 miles (1.18 million km) between Ganymede and Jupiter


Stretched more than 100 million miles behind the comet


The EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) instrument depends upon accurately measuring the light from glowing oxygen in order to track the height and density of the daytime ionosphere


DART will be the first space mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection by kinetic impact


There is a lot of activity near Jupiter's poles but none near the equator


”Copernicus CO2 MonitoringMission Requirements Document,” ESA, 27 September 2019


The Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center


Getting our first real understanding of how Jupiter's beautiful and violent atmosphere works – in 3D


The fixed solar arrays (triple-junction solar cells) provide a power of 900 W when pointed toward the sun


Aiming to cover a lifetime up to 7.5 years


DART is the first mission devoted primarily to planetary defense at NASA


CO2M is secured as a two-satellite mission


Tianwen 1 robotic probe entered its preset parking orbit above Mars on Wednesday and will fly in this orbit for about three months


The team will monitor the spacecraft to ensure that the commands were successful


Each Martian day, the navigation terrain camera onboard the rover Zhurong took images of terrains along the way. The subsurface radar and meteorological measuring instrument are also turned on for detection during the journey. When the rover stops, the surface magnetic field detector turns on for detection. The surface composition detector, multispectral camera and other payloads carry out the fixed-point detection when the rover encounters special landforms, such as rocks and sand dunes with high scientific detection value, during its journey on Mars


NASA's Juno spacecraft is gathering as it circles the planet from north to south once every 53 days


Full operation from Mission Operation Center in CETT (Centro Espacial Teófilo Tabanera), CONAE –Cordoba


Tarawa consists of a large lagoon fringed by a V-shaped reef, around 35 km long


PSLV-C34 Successfully Launches 20 Satellites in a Single Flight," ISRO, June 22, 2016


Opportunities exist starting in late 2017 for government and commercial customers to host payloads on Iridium PRIME satellites in LEO (Low Earth Orbit)


To keep the spacecraft pointing at its target, the team uses “reaction wheels’’


Both spacecraft functioned well for nearly eight years


TCS is responsible for maintaining spacecraft component temperatures within operational limits


The black hole is devouring material from its surroundings while firing powerful jets of particles that emit light up to the high energies of gamma rays


INTEGRAL will continue to observe the Crab Nebula every ~6 months


NGGM consists of two identical spacecraft


Models show the thermal variation within the AMR-H receiver will be ± 2.5 °C


MANTIS is a demonstration mission to develop, build, launch and operate an innovative nanosatellite


Level 1 will provide geolocated top of atmosphere reflectances with a sub-pixel multi-date registration


That were followed by the Jason series of satellite missions


China is expected to have three electromagnetic satellites in orbit by 2022


The most common size of planet Kepler found doesn’t exist in our solar system – a world between the size of Earth and Neptune


The lander carrying a rover of the Tianwen-1 mission touched down in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plain on the northern hemisphere of Mars, on May 15


Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2009


In order to decrease the intersatellite distance to 30m


3 Phantom v7.1 cameras; 3 Phantom v711 cameras; 2 Phantom v710 color cameras


The global oil and gas supply chain is not accurately or frequently monitored


The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter 33 times


The COR2 coronagraph on NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-A spacecraft detected this Earth-directed CME on Oct. 9, 2021


Orbit data for each spacecraft will be provided to the DSN from the FDF


The onboard solid-state recorder has a capacity of 7.5 Gbit


These have a height of 4 cm and a side of 5 cm


Planned research is to characterize space weather throughout the inner heliosphere


Each PICOSAT, a box of size: 25 mm x 75 mm x 100 mm


Ground Stations a) ETC (Estación Terrena de Córdoba), Argentina: X- & S-bands b) ETT (Estación Terrena de Tierra del Fuego), Argentina: X- & S-bands c) SGS (Svalbard Ground Station), Norway: X- & S-bands. d) IMT, Matera, Italy, X-band


Tianwen-1 probe will detect the surface and internal structure of the red planet


The ESA Hera mission concept is being considered


The solar array is on four non-coplanar panels and totals 10.2 m2 of triple-junction photovoltaic cells


The objective is covered with a cylindrical shield which extends also in front of the telescope thereby acting as a sun shield


INTEGRAL, the only instrument capable of doing this, shows that iron-60 (60Fe) does exist in interstellar space in our Galaxy


Data from the CCDs are extracted every six seconds


The XDA modulates the data onto the X-band carrier


Two cells connected in series provide 4.6 V to the power system


For BEESAT-4 the GPS receiver is only an experimental payload


The Project System Engineer leads mission-level engineering efforts


The extensive data collected with INTEGRAL


The EPS (Electric Power Subsystem) provides an average power of 90 W


China's Tianwen-1 probe sends back Mars landing visuals


Sentinel-6 will also include a GNSS-RO (GNSS Radio Occultation) instrument as a secondary payload


India's recent anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test has increased the risk of debris impacting with the International Space Station (ISS) by as much as 44%


This consists of a set of CCDs (Charged Coupled Devices), sapphire field flattening lenses, an invar substrate, heat pipes and radiator


A 32-bit AVR controller with a 64MB flash storage used as the on-board controller (OBC) for housekeeping and data handling


Beijing (NSOAS/SOA): Receive raw data in real time acquiring, processing, archiving and managing, distributing and analyzing the HY-1 mission


Placing it in orbit around the king of planets


A new, smaller cyclone can be seen at the lower right of this infrared image of Jupiter's south pole


NASA's STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) mission, which included two spacecraft orbiting the Sun


Fixed bias Langmuir probes measure the collected current at a fixed potential either in the electron saturation region or the ion saturation region


Copernicus Sentinel-6 is a mission that has been built in cooperation with the European Commission, EUMETSAT, NASA, NOAA and CNES


DART is a joint project between NASA and the JHU/APL (John Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory) of Laurel MD, with support from the NASA centers: JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center), and JSC (Johnson Space Center)


Seeker, a free-flying NASA CubeSat for vehicle inspection


Construction work stopped and the Priroda module was put into storage


The more energetic gamma rays, detected by Fermi, are seen to be coming from the tiny base of the jet – the 'ant on the Moon'-size region


DART’s primary launch window extends from mid-June 2021 through mid-October 2021


Divided into 6 segments with dimensions (20 x 3 x 0.5) cm3


DART’s cruise phase will last about 11 months


The safety concept retained for AVANTI is mainly based on the passive safety of specific relative trajectories


The effects of which are widespread, threatening lives, well-being and prosperity


ICON is targeted to launch in June 2017 from the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll


DART has been through its paces in the last several months


China's Tianwen 1 mission, consisting of an orbiter, a lander, and a rover, was launched on July 23, 2020


Where the gravitational field strength is highest


An aluminum- carbon-fiber-construction has been selected


This gyro mode is used only for a few minutes on each rotation


Colleagues at the Science Operations Centre in ESAC, Madrid


The other stars showed much larger variation. Their fluctuations were typically about five times as strong


The satellite in its orbit at an altitude of 720 km


ESA's mission control team is handing over command and control of the satellite to EUMETSAT


ICON was air-launched over the Atlantic Ocean on a Northrop Grumman L-1011 aircraft, Stargazer


The most relevant ALISEO applications are in the following fields: Geology, Vegetation and agriculture, Coastal zone monitoring, Desert blooms and wetland observations


Before the anti-satellite test on the FengYun 1-C (FY-1C) weather satellite by China in 2007


Humidity profiles from the measurement of the water vapor band (6.3 µm) Measurement of ozone content in the 9.6 µm band


The connection between the two segments is provided by the Ground NeTwork (GNT)


Qualification and In-Flight Demonstration of a European Tether Deployment and Momentum Transfer System on YES2


The lithium battery (2 x 18 V, capacity of 10 Ahr)


ESA is responsible for the payload and experiments


Scientists estimate that every 25 mm of sea level rise translates into 2.5 m of lost beach along our coasts


The DHU handles real-time video acquisition, real-time lossy and lossless data compression for transmission to the ground, and onboard storage and real-time onboard image processing


ESA's next CubeSat mission seen enduring the scorching heat of simulated atmospheric reentry inside the world's largest plasma wind tunnel


Each STEREO spacecraft has moved to a position in its orbit where it can capture side-view images of anything the sun sends our way


The Mir station had a design life of 3.5 years


The orbiter, with a design life of one Martian year


Discrete and broadband electron acceleration in Jupiter's powerful aurora


Commencing its detailed ‘crime scene investigation’ of the asteroids in late 2026


Matt Holman, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA (Center for Astrophysics), Cambridge, MA


One collimator with a divergence of 1200 µrad for pointing to the ground station, using the attitude sensors of the satellite and a second collimator with 200 µrad for pointing with the OSIRIS tracking sensor


Pre-Flight SAOCOM-1A SAR Performance Assessment


The first of the gas-giant orbiter's back-to-back flybys will provide a close encounter with the massive moon after over 20 years


3 m/s (assumes vehicle attitude specification of 0.02º)


High fidelity low-noise data are thanks to Sentinel-6's Poseidon-4 digital instrument architecture


When the impact kinetic energy to the target mass ratio (EMR) is 40 J/g or higher, the outcome of the impact is catastrophic - meaning the target is completely fragmented into tens of thousands of pieces


The westward winds may be relatively weaker than expected compared with equatorward winds


A 2D CMOS APS (Active Pixel Sensor) of Micron Technology


The Copernicus Sentinel-6 mission is a true example of international cooperation. While Sentinel-6 is one of the European Union's family of Copernicus missions, its implementation is the result of the unique collaboration between ESA, NASA, EUMETSAT and NOAA, with contribution from the French space agency CNES


The geometric factor is 0.01 cm 2 sr E (eV)


The main structure of the bus uses aluminum honeycomb sandwich panels


Based upon the proven approaches used for the WINDII (Wind Imaging Interferometer) flown on the NASA UARS satellite


ICON simultaneously observes powerful winds and migrating plasma


All ground communications with the formation is only via the mother spacecraft


With respect to the scientific mission phase


The main program participants are: ISA, CNES, CESBIO (Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère, Toulouse, France), ELOp (Elbit Systems Ltd. Electro-Optics of Rehovot, Israel), BGU/BIRD/RSL (Ben Gurion University of the Negev/Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research/Remote Sensing Laboratory), IAI/MBT Space Division (Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd.), and Rafael


Absolute pointing error: 5' (Y, Z), 15' (X)


BIROS was originally planned to launch in the fall of 2015


Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets


In April 2009, CONAE signed a contract with the launch service provider SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.)


The team's observations with the Very Large Array telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro (USA) also revealed a source dimmer than usual


Permitting an observation capability of the entire sun for the first time in history


Planets around even cooler stars known as red dwarfs, which smoulder at roughly a third of our Sun’s temperature, could not receive enough energy to even activate photosynthesis


Identify additional members of each discovered planetary system using other techniques


Zhurong Rover is more independent in its driving on Mars [compared with China’s Yutu lunar rovers]. It can judge by itself whether there is a path ahead based on its own image analysis


The samples tested have varied in size from maximum dimensions of 2 mm to 100 mm


Proceedings of the 65th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2014), Toronto, Canada, Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2014


Symposium: 15 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry, Venice, Italy, March 13-18, 2006


The optics subsystem is maintained at a constant temperature of 20 ±3ºC


Via a COTS DC/DC converter module, the EMCO Q04-5 converter


Data transmission rate 8 Mbit/s in S-band


e2v will provide two 2048 x 4096 pixel CCDs (Charge Coupled Devices)


With fuel to extend their life to 12 years


STEREO-A image of the Sun with the EUVI instrument at 171 Å, acquired on July 15, 2015 at 06:25:59 UTC


Power Control Board PCB Provides all power to instruments, instrument heaters, and motors


PLASTIC instrument, PI: Antoinette Galvin of UNH (University of New Hampshire)


Command and control center (IAI/MBT, Israel)


STEREO Trajectory and Maneuver Design,” Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2009


The next generation of SPEQS is an enlarged and upgraded version that can produce polarization entangled photon-pairs


As of 2000, SAOCOM is a joint project of CONAE and ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), the Space Agency of Italy


Integral fired its thrusters for possibly the last planned time, after a failure with its propulsion system


Determine significant wave height and wind speed


Eventually slamming into the planet's atmosphere and triggering the X-ray auroras


Until then, the spacecraft will remain stable and parked in a no-fuel-use safe mode


The solar-powered spacecraft's flyby will yield insights into the moon's ionosphere


A set of 19 equations with 156 unknowns would need to be solved


The hydrazine left in the propulsion system is sufficient to maintain station keeping for > 10 years


BIROS demonstrates autonomous rendezvous in space using only image data


The source lies only about 130 million light-years away


The OHDB is housed in an aluminum box of size: 220 mm x 220 mm x 240 mm


By 1990 this had been pushed back to 1992


K2-288, which contains a pair of dim, cool M-type stars separated by about 8.2 billion kilometers


Zhurong has since covered 236 meters on the Martian surface


On January 14, 2014, the ICON project passed the SRR (System Requirements Review)


NSF-funded CubeSats built by undergraduate and graduate students


IFOV (Instantaneous Field of View) 0.0058º or 0.0029º


The same repeat cycles (16 days) of the COSMO-SkyMed and the SAOCOM constellations


The rover has now driven 450 meters in Utopia Planitia


From the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan


This magnetar was not only radiating its usual X-rays, but radio waves, too


Measurements (mass and physical size XDIM, YDIM, and ZDIM)


The Chinese institutes involved in the project are CNSA (China National Space Administration), CEA (China Earthquake Administration) , LIP (Lanzhou Institute of Physics), ICD-CEA (Institute of Crustal Dynamics), IHEP (Institute of High Energy Physics), NSSC (National Space Science Center), CSSAR/CAS (Center for Space Science and Applied Research/Chinese Academy of Science), the Space Star Technology Co. and the DFH Satellite Co.


The unseen objects are supermassive black holes, millions or billions of times heavier than the Sun


Twin instruments developed by a CU Boulder team led by LASP director and Nature paper co-author Daniel Baker


The type II radio bursts are signatures of the propagation of CMEs, while type III radio bursts represent the propagation of energetic electrons associated with flares


Occurring away from the magnetic equator


The PARASOL mission is the second one (after DEMETER)


The calibration will still be valid after numerous objects are imaged


The observation geometries (swath, pixel size) changed due to the higher orbital altitude of MIR


Free-space optics in atmosphere have similar limitations


Scientific data analysis, direction for the FOP (Follow-up Observing Program) implemented by Co-Is, and final interpretation will also be performed at NASA Ames


The first flare to be observed, on September 1, 1859


Kepler leaves a legacy of more than 2,600 exoplanet discoveries


Each segment is read by two Hamamatsu PMTs


The passive elements are MLI (Multi Layer Insulation) blankets and dedicated radiators covered with SSM (Secondary Surface Mirrors)


Elevated the Kp index to 6 (moderate level)


Are transmitted to a ground receiving station (DFD Neustrelitz) during overpasses


ALISSA a French Russian cooperation in the Priroda mission


The TT&C data link is in S-band (2067 MHz)


November 29, 2021: What happens on Earth doesn't stay on Earth. — Using observations from NASA's ICON mission


Oberpfaffenhofen, Neustrelitz, Adelaide/Australia and Izaña/Tenerife have been considered as ground station sites


The Tianwen-1 mission will perform a global survey of Mars, measuring soil and rock composition, searching for signs of buried water ice, and studying the Martian magnetosphere and atmosphere


Four primary strategies are identified as sufficiently mature to warrant consideration as approaches to mitigate an asteroid impact threat


Didymos’ primary body is approximately 800 meters across


The Interface and Control Unit (ICU), with the software for controlling the FEEU/ASH and for interfacing with the spacecraft


The satellite pair under NASA development (P1) is called GRACE-C


Having a single contractor allows for a single systems engineering team


FOV (camera field of view) ±1.2º x ±0.35º


A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet


Both roll tilt and pitch tilt is employed


Satellite sends hyperspectral images from space


STEREO-B's solar panels are no longer pointed directly at the sun


These sources show, unexpectedly, strong emission in the INTEGRAL energy range


The Copernicus Sentinel-6 Poseidon-4 dual-frequency (C- and Ku-band) radar altimeter uses an innovative interleaved mode


Chinese Long March 2C lofts Huanjing-1C into orbit


Measures the three bands signals, applies antenna pattern correction and performs the regular calibration


First, it is the prime archive of STEREO telemetry and data


The onboard solid-state recorder has a capacity of 64 Gbit


December 3, 2019: 'Swage' was the word of the day on Monday (2 December) as ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano carried out the third spacewalk to service the cosmic ray hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02


This animation illustrates a recent discovery by Juno that demonstrates these east-west flows, also known as jet-streams penetrate deep into the planet's atmosphere, to a depth of about 3,000 km


K2 data is more challenging to work with because the spacecraft is moving around all the time


The retarding grids are biased at potentials between 0 and 25 V


A data processing chain managed by Open Cosmos on-ground will enable processing the raw satellite imagery up to Level 1C


The electrons do not necessarily need to come from a volcanic moon


Astronomers can exploit the gamma rays emitted during the decay to trace the long-term reach of stellar explosions


ESA's INTEGRAL mission is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its launch, which took place on 17 October 2002


Tamás Kovács delivers an alternative method for stability analysis of exoplanetary bodies using only the observed time series data to deduce dynamical measurements and quantify the unpredictability of exoplanet systems


Followed by powered descent, a hazard-avoidance hover phase, and landing


Proceedings of NAVITEC 2008, 4th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies GNSS User Technologies in the Sensor Fusion Era, Dec. 10-12, 2008


The S/C mass is 442.5 kg (including 13 kg of propellant)


TMC at Rafael (Israel) processes the IHET telemetry. TMC has also the task of to program the satellite during IHET operations


Juno's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper instrument captured images of a new cyclone appearing to attempt to join the five established cyclones revolving around the massive central cyclone at the south pole


The Singapore ground station is located on top of an eighteen-storage building in the NUS campus


With the satellite at an altitude of 720 km


Now, we’re one step closer to finding an answer


The spacecraft (SA-2008 bus) has dimensions of 68.6 cm x 89 cm x 89 cm


The Li-ion battery has a capacity of 15 Ah


A few weeks after reaching the ISS, QARMAN will be deployed into Space


The Proton upper stage put the satellite into a highly eccentric 'transfer' orbit


The NEXT-C electric propulsion system drives numerous elements of the spacecraft design


How a NASA Scientist Looks in the Depths of the Great Red Spot to Find Water on Jupiter


The typical latency of these paths is expected to be less than 0.5 seconds


Iron-60 is synthesized both later in a star’s life and deeper inside


The projectile selected for DebriSat impact is an aluminum sphere with a mass of 176 g


STEREO consists of two nearly identical spacecraft


The DebriSat design includes four reaction wheels in the ADCS


The one STEREO saw reared up about 100,000 km high


Proceedings of the 16th AMOS (Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technology Conference), Maui, Hawaii, USA


The Closed Loop tracking mode makes use of an automatic echo recognition and tracking


STEREO Ahead continues to operate nominally


Aim for a controlled touchdown in Utopia Planitia


The power consumption = 50 W in imaging mode (mean power of 29 W)


The perspective begins about 2,000 miles (3,000 kilometers) above the cloud tops of the planet's southern hemisphere


The satellite structural model is at ESA’s ESTEC testing facilities in the Netherlands


E2V Image Sensors chosen for NASA's MIGHTI mission


Because the lowest point of Integral’s orbit is now only 1500 km from Earth’s surface


The Kepler satellite looked for planets, especially those that lie in the “Habitable Zones” of their stars


In space, each array will slowly unfurl to reach 28 feet in length


This violent solar activity is the cause of major geomagnetic disturbances, reflected by the space weather


HRMR has been designed to attach to three mounting points at the focus of the RSA


BIROS has been orbiting Earth since 2016


iSIM90 for the 12U-16U CubeSat platforms


An upward drift perpendicular to the magnetic field is invoked


STEREO-B has now been out of contact since Sept. 23, 2016


Design and development of the multispectral payload for TWSat mission


Comparing the processes at Jupiter and Earth is incredibly valuable in testing our ideas of how planetary physics works


The POS4 (Poseidon-4 Radar Altimeter) is the main instrument of the S-6/Jason-CS mission


Data about each star's energy output from an extensive trove of data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission


MOMSNAV location knowledge accuracy of the imagery is ≤5 m horizontal (1σ)


Pico Dragon, a 1U CubeSat of VNSC (Vietnam National Center)


Three of which are implemented with polarized filters


By collecting data in different spectral domains (optical and microwave regions) and at various FOVs (Field of Views)


To enable drag-compensation, formation and attitude control system (i.e. DFAOCS)


To monitor the worrying trend of sea-level rise


Kiruna and Fairbanks (with Wallops as backup) are chosen as S- and X-band ground stations for sizing purposes but do not necessarily represent the final choice


There have been no successful communications since then


Spatial resolution at nadir, swath width 37 m


The AOCS (Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem) is using linear magnetic controllers for momentum bias control to achieve 3-axis stabilization


The satellite had suddenly rotated away from the Sun, which was a very unexpected and strange event


Infrared spectroradiometric system ISTOK-1 of the MIR orbital station


The launch of the GEOSAT spacecraft took place on March 12, 1985


SpooQy-1, a 3U CubeSat developed at the National University of Singapore


The microcontroller contains a built-in UART, providing interaction with the GlobalStar modem. The microcontroller has a built-in EEPROM (”flash”)


The S/C dry mass with margin, is 1039 kg


Pixel resolution, number of pixels per line 250 m (nadir)


A passive thermal control system maintains the spacecraft and instruments in their operational ranges


A radar image captured on 29 November 2020 by Copernicus Sentinel-1


Named for astronomer Robert McNaught, who discovered it in August 2006


A 12-month tandem flight has been taking place


The Waves instrument will measure radio and plasma waves in Jupiter's magnetosphere


Post-detector Circuit Video (3 dB) Bandwidth ≥ 75 kHz


During earlier flybys on June 7, 2021, the solar-powered orbiter came within 650 miles (1,046 km)


The CSSWE nanosatellite was launched on Sept. 13, 2012


Every thruster has two independent actuators in series


The objective is to extend the concept of traditional externally occulted coronagraphs to a new regime, by observing the heliosphere from the sun to the Earth (12-215 Rsun)


The bottom part of the calorimeter consists of a layer with 9 LYSO crystals


Since red dwarfs are by far the most common type of star in our galaxy


On Aug. 1, 2000, within days of a picture-perfect launch on July 19, the Fourier Transform Hyperspectral sensor aboard MightySat II.1 sent back its first ”hypercube” from orbit


Each instrument has its own partitions to use on the SSR, which are typically set by the MOT to an overwrite mode


All 10 experiments were declared to have achieved 100% mission success


Ion drift dynamic range -1000 to 1000 m/s


ESA Earth Observation Quarterly, No. 37-38, May-June 1992


Large planets are only discovered around metal-rich stars


Illuminating the behavior of the enormous magnetic fields generated by gas-giant planets like Jupiter


Observing these jets with ESA's INTEGRAL and NASA's Fermi and Swift satellites, the astronomers could measure the size of the region around the black hole where they originate


The mIVM is mounted to view approximately along the spacecraft velocity vector in the ram direction


NASA Ames managed the development of the ground system and will conduct scientific analysis for the mission


IAA Symposium on Small Satellite Systems and Services (4S), Rhodes, Greece, May 26-30, 2008


A satellite breakup model consists of three fundamental components – fragment size, A/M (Area-to-Mass ratio), and relative velocity (ΔV) distributions


OCO-3 instrument was installed on the International Space Station in 2019


Juno is the latest spacecraft tasked with finding water


It uses an IMPS (Improved Multi-Purpose Satellite) platform


There are three major tasks associated with the post-impact processing of DebriSat fragments: detection, extraction, and characterization


A FOV (Field of View) entrance baffle extends beyond the optical entrance


The nominal STEREO mission attitude keeps the spacecraft +x axis centered on the Sun with the Earth in the x–z plane on the –z side of the spacecraft


The Kepler Mission also supports the objectives of future NASA Origins theme missions SIM (Space Interferometry Mission)


On 22 September, around midday, ESA’s Integral spacecraft went into emergency Safe Mode


The mass of the object is less than 13 times that of Jupiter


Provide data for the physical properties of fragments smaller than 10 cm


Jupiter's banded appearance is created by the cloud-forming "weather layer"


The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (the European Space Agency)


Tianwen-1 joins the United Arab Emirates’ Hope mission, which arrived Tuesday (9 February)


The condenser sections composed by aluminum radiators, whose frontal area is 15 cm x 6 cm


Planet Inc. of San Francisco launches a total of 26 Flock 4v SuperDoves on this mission


The FOP is necessary to eliminate intrinsic false positives due to grazing-eclipsing binaries and extrinsic false positives due to background eclipsing binaries or discriminate between terrestrial transits of the target star and giant planet transits of a background star


Communicating with an ORBCOMM satellite (altitude 800 km), it will be possible to inform directly the ground users via email and SMS


MASS (Mechanical and data Acquisition Support System) with a mass of 8 kg


The uplink modulation is phase modulated (PM)


SIMBA (Sun-Earth Imbalance), a 3U CubeSat mission led by the Royal Meteorological Institute Belgium, The objective is to measure the TSI (Total Solar Irradiance) and Earth Radiation Budget climate variables with a miniaturized radiometer instrument


The radio signal observed on the ground immediately after the reset was very weak


Able to measure the energy of a gamma-ray to 1 part in 500


Spectral resolution (bandwidth): 0.125 µm (4-8 µm region), 0.025 µm (8 - 16 µm region)


Observations of the Earth from space are central to modern day life in helping us to monitor climate change, map our environment, forecast the weather and now – finding new resources


In October 2017, NASA selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6A mission


Only the technology demonstrations of YES2 and OWLS are being described within the context of this mission


Resolution cell (pixel at limb (V/H) 4 / 16 km


Communications with Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-B (STEREO-B) were lost on Oct. 1, 2014


The satellite was designed and fabricated by the University of Florida and supplied to AEDC for destruction


The outer boundary of the magnetic field is struck directly by the particles of the solar wind and compressed


Total impulse capability (of the order of 100kNs)


Argentina is home to a Chinese-owned deep space tracking antenna that will be used to communicate with Tianwen 1 after launch


Qarman will gather data on atmospheric reentry using inbuilt temperature and pressure sensors and a spectrometer


The Level 2 data product, the wet path delay estimate (cm) used in the RA range correction


INTEGRAL will help to find out more about this element-making process


The Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute


The LEOStar-2 spacecraft which is a flexible, high-performance spacecraft for space and Earth science, remote sensing and other applications


Two double-folded deployable solar array panels generate 30 W of electrical (peak) power


Michael Temerin of the University of California, Berkeley


Orbit: altitude = 385 km (initial altitude)


"High-Energy Particle Detector (HEPD)," URL: http://cses.roma2.infn.it/node/30


CO2M is planned as a two-satellite mission, with the option of a third satellite


Using approximately half of the remaining propellant


The second ground station is a portable 2 metre diameter dish


Aims to complete orbiting, landing and roving in one mission


The solar wind also interacts with Earth’s magnetic field


A new, smaller cyclone can be seen at the lower right of this infrared image of Jupiter's south pole taken on Nov. 4, 2019


Anomalous X-ray Pulsar) - a type of neutron star first spotted pulsing low-energy X-rays into space during the 1970s by the Uhuru X-ray satellite


At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 24,600 km from the planet


The Geostationary Carbon Observatory mission currently lacks a satellite platform


Miniature multispectral camera in 4 bands


The ESA-developed receiver's first results became available on 26-27 November


The average satellite temperature of approximately 20ºC


The SOHO (Solar Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft, an ESA and NASA mission


SLP includes four cylindrical probes (needle-like Langmuir probes)


Visit https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ for information about potential impacts from this event


PICOSAT1.1 MightySat II.1 flies the Aerospace Corporation's designed and built launcher assembly


Calibration exercises were performed using star sensor and gyro data


The thrusters will have to be used intensively


STEREO-A was silent for nearly four months because of superior conjunction


They provided a new and unique perspective


Reentry test of QARMAN CubeSat," ESA, 21 June 2018


As a result of these conditions a compact satellite body (Figure 7) has been selected


NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission


Represents entry into a different region in Ganymede's magnetosphere


Using the Iridium commercial satellite network


The design enables nearly autonomous operations with occasional uplink support and to recover science data on a daily basis


The science data are downlinked in X-band


ELaNA - Educational Launch of Nanosatellite," 8th Annual CubeSat Developers' Workshop, CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA, April 20-22, 2011


Such a high-performance satnav receiver that includes high-quality Galileo signals


The baseplate is mounted on top of the isostatic mount


The Ground Segment is responsible for receiving and processing the satellite imagery up to Level 1C


Two sounding radars will operate independently, with one onboard the orbiter. The other is on the rover


INTEGRAL will continue scientific observations until its fuel runs out in the early 2020s


NSX requires 23.2 W in transmit/receive mode


An international research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has generated and detected quantum entanglement onboard a CubeSat nanosatellite weighing less than 2.6 kg


Range resolution: 20 m (for ground processing)


The SAOCOM-1A satellite was launched on 8 October 2018 (02.21 UTC)


That is intersected by a number of planar semi-transparent conducting grids


The YES2 Experience: Towards Sustainable Space Transportation using Tethers,” Proceedings of the 59th IAC (International Astronautical Congress), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Sept. 29 to Oct.


The next flyby of Jupiter, the 35th of the mission, is scheduled for July 21


Some debris ejected into higher orbits from the force of the impact could remain in orbit longer


Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich securely brings a new synthetic aperture radar measurement technique into the reference altimeter time series for the first time


In mid April 2005, Swift confirmed that the light was ‘highly absorbed’


Converted air into hot plasma at temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius


Merging neutron stars have also been thought to be the long-sought sources of short gamma-ray bursts


The high performance and low noise of Poseidon-4


It represents a 'stepping stone' in the evolution of slower-spinning binary pulsars into faster-spinning isolated pulsars


TPS (TEC Power Supply) for MIGHTI Power supply specifically to drive the TEC cooler for MIGHTI


One of these circuits converts the battery voltage to 3.3 V


March 7, 2018: Data collected by NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter


STEREO Reaches New Milestone At Its Sixth Anniversary, NASA, Oct. 26, 2012


ADCS (Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem) - Three-axis stabilization (Earth pointing)


The team looked at exoplanets between a radius of 0.5 and 1.5 times that of Earth's


Absolute Radiometric Calibration for Thermal Infrared Bands of HY-1/COCTS by Using Qinhai Lake


Each hosted payload to enjoy near-realtime connectivity through the Iridium spaceborne mesh network


Which may be used in flight to make fine focus adjustments


Equatorward motions are upward and will increase the plasma density above the F-peak, while poleward motions are downward and will tend to decrease the plasma density above the F-peak


NASA Administrator Reveals India's ASAT Test Increased Risk of ISS Debris Impact by 44%


Molten, iron-rich and in vigorous motion 1800 miles below the surface


So far, about 15 magnetars have been found


The PICASSO flight aims at a polar orbit at 500 km


Participating Scientists are Derek Buzasi, Eureka Scientific, Oakland, Calif.


The GPS orbit measure provides a location accuracy of 50 m


TET-Payload, DLR, URL: http://www.dlr.de/os/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-7046/11773_read-27676/


About 50 miles offshore of Daytona Beach, Florida, the Pegasus XL will be dropped


The processing capabilities of the BIROS payload will be considerably upgraded


Israel in Space - Twenty Years of Exploration (1988-2008)," book, 2009


The spacecraft's JunoCam also obtained visible-light imagery of the new cyclone


The bulk of the space weather data is expected to come from SECCHI, producing about 7 images/hour (256 x 256 pixels)


Target selection will utilize an input catalog especially generated by a team of Co-Is (Co-Investigators)


Isolated, young neutron stars with unusually strong magnetic fields (10^14G -10^15G)


What we found is that there isn’t a clean Alfvén surface


The new miniaturized photon-pair source consists of a blue laser diode that shines on nonlinear crystals to create pairs of photons


Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is exceeding expectations in orbit


Chinese space engineers and scientists have chosen a relatively flat region in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a large plain, as a potential landing zone


In addition to STEREO’s serendipitous sighting


The system layout contains 4 redundant computers


For a period of several weeks around the time of the DART impact, Didymos is within 0.08 AU from the Earth


Observed the major changes in upper atmospheric airglow


Integral carries a suite of four instruments able to simultaneously observe and take images of cosmic objects in gamma rays, X-rays, and visible light


The oceanographer of the Navy responded with the “Global Ocean Applications Program” to exploit the altimeter observations for operational physical oceanography during an extended mission following the completion of the classified geodetic mission


Spacecraft mass, power 100-400 kg, 250 - 1000 W


This view from the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft


The name is another example of Chinese aerospace workers' scientific romance as they have named spacecraft, including Tianwen


Contact was reestablished with one of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories, known as the STEREO-B spacecraft, after communications were lost on Oct. 1, 2014


The spacecraft and its payload are operating nominally as of 2009


An artist's impression of gas accreting onto the neutron star in the binary system MXB 1730-335


Two different dither patterns and a staring mode (no dithering) are used as operational baseline: 1) Rectangular dithering (baseline)


TNS-1 with different experimental payloads


NASA and ESA have concluded a series of four spacewalks to repair the Station’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment. NASA astronaut Drew Morgan and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano completed the series with the AMS deemed to be in good health


The 30-minute orbit insertion burn will place Juno in orbit around Jupiter in early July 2016


The inner belt is centered near 1.5 earth radii (RE) from the center of the Earth


The energy received should be larger when the beam is narrow or points towards us and smaller when the beam is broad or points away from us


The imager is based upon e2v's new 1.3 Mpixel "camera on a chip" CMOS image sensor


Designed and sized to embark consumable for a mission extension of at least two years


As STEREO-B's orbit brings it closer to Earth, the spacecraft's antenna orientation and closing communications gap may improve the chances of further communication


Led by ESA navigation engineer Pietro Giordano


ICON achieves this through an innovative measurement technique that combines remote optical imaging and in situ measurements of the plasma


Exposé, BIROS (Berlin InfraRed Optical System), information provided by Winfried Halle of DLR


A procurement order/agreement between ESA and Roskosmos, regarding the Foton-M2 and -M3 missions and payloads, was signed October 21, 2003


In addition, there is an X-band station for optional direct downloads of images


The SNR can be even more improved by averaging pulses


The idea was to analyze the light energy emitted through Jupiter's clouds


The NASA Living with a Star program, managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center, funds the STEREO mission


Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will soon pick up the baton


QARMAN will incorporate an ablative Thermal Protection System (TPS) to the structure to protect the CubeSat from extreme heating during reentry


Altitude profile of pressure and temperature (with 0.2 km resolution)


The Permanent Facility for Altimetry Calibration on the island of Crete in Greece


Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in November 2020


Is being retired within its current and safe orbit, away from Earth


BIROS approached its target CubeSat to within 50 m


At some point the winds travelling from the puffed-up giant will begin to rain on to the smaller star, slowing its spin and emitting X-rays


IHET (Israeli Hall Effect Thruster): -1 x IHET redundant, 16 kg Xenon - 4 x 1 N redundant thrusters, 7 kg hydrazine


Generates ample electrical power using a two wing solar array design


DART will navigate to crash itself into Didymos B at a speed of approximately 6.6 km/s


Subject matter experts' support provided by the Aerospace Corporation


They reveal interactions between the solar wind and Earth's protective magnetic bubble


It has more than 22,000 electronic components tightly packed into a volume measuring slightly more than one cubic foot


The satellite performances will be monitored from ground station located in The Netherlands


TNS-0 was stabilized with respect to the local geomagnetic field within a month


Jack Connerney, Juno deputy principal investigator


The brightness of this upper atmosphere layer corresponds to temperatures, from hot to cold, in this order: white, yellow, bright red and lastly, dark red


Network of S-band (2 GHz) satellite tracking stations


The DebriSat project is co-sponsored by the Air Force's SMC (Space and Missile Systems Center)


CZI (Coastal Zone Imager) CZI is a multispectral pushbroom CCD instrument developed by the Beijing Institute of Space Machines and Electricity


The Power Propulsion Unit (PPU) supplies power to the NEXT-C thruster, and its thermal dissipation is comparable with the dissipation of the rest of the spacecraft


VENµS - An innovative satellite for the study and modelling of land surface processes


A specific type of instrument is needed to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide, which, from Europe’s side, will be addressed by the upcoming Copernicus CO2M mission


TMA (Three-Mirror off-axis Aspheric) design


ICON targets the low-latitude ionosphere


Then made a right turn to fly along the east coast of Florida over Fort Lauderdale and Miami on the way to a polar orbit


NanoRacks announced SSO polar orbit launch opportunities


Larger telescopes can be used to enable optical coverage by those facilities for 20 out of 24 hours per day near the impact date


The space segment of the GlobalStar communication system consists of 48 LEO satellites


Spacecraft size 400 mm diameter, 175 mm in height


A typical Near-Earth Object’s heliocentric speed, which is several tens of km/s


On Nov. 20, 2013 at 7:58 UTC, the next deployment took place in which the 3U TechEdSat-3 was released into orbit


Impact Energy to Target Mass ratio (EMR) 78 J/g


PICASSO will be one of 42 tiny satellites launched simultaneously aboard an Arianespace Vega rocket


To its long monitoring campaigns of the Galactic center


The two STEREO spacecraft and their payloads are operating nominally in 2012


In 1994, the first flight opportunity for a Discovery-Class mission was announced


Poseidon-4 acquires both conventional low-resolution measurements simultaneously with high-resolution synthetic aperture radar measurements


The Goldstone and Arecibo radars will be used to make measurements of the Didymos system


The 59th successful recovery of a Falcon 9 first stage overall


Its particles flow at 250 miles per second


This is the first time that we have seen a twisted radiation outburst as the source of helium-3 and iron-rich particle flows


5th European CubeSat Symposium, Royal Military Academy, VKI (Von Karman Institute), Brussels, Belgium, June 3-5, 2013


ESA’s Integral satellite has been scouring the skies around the Earth for signs of high-energy radiation since 2002


Numerical ray tracing shows that the spectral resolution requirements allow a slit width of 890 µm


The data suggest the ammonia is quite variable and continues to increase as far down as we can see with MWR, which is a few hundred kilometers


Successfully completing multiple observation campaigns


This was an eruption thought to come from a binary star system


Switching the spacecraft’s field of view roughly every three months


Strategic mission planning and target selection is done at the SOC


The Tianwen 1 orbiter adjusted the low point of its elongated orbit to reach a collision course with Mars


Each S/C utilizes four sets of solar arrays


The highest energies that we are observing within Jupiter's auroral regions are formidable. These energetic particles that create the auroras are part of the story


Sentinel-6 will be a truly operational mission in all aspects of its main user services


The sun spins on its axis once every 25 days


GHGSat-C1 of GHGSat Inc., Montreal, Canada, is the first of two nanosatellites (~16 kg)


Will enable advanced predictive capability for space weather research


Image credits: (X-ray) NASA/CXC/SwRI/R. Gladstone et al.


Analyzing data from NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer


Figure 10: Planned orbital trajectory at Mars


Unlike the EIA, the ETWA is less understood and observations are relatively scarce


The XBS is used only for scientific and telemetry data


The system is semi-autonomous by design to ensure operator involvement


Sponsored by the State Ocean Administration (SOA), Beijing, China


Two smaller rideshare payloads — named GNOMES-1 and Tyvak 0172 — deployed from the Falcon 9 about 45 minutes later


The action of a neutral wind is to drive plasma perpendicular to the magnetic field under the action of a wind dynamo, or to drive plasma parallel to the magnetic field under the action of collisional forces


With a 1 mm gap between the probe surface and the guard


The IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) was powered on


PICASSO is an ambitious 3U CubeSat implementing a science mission aimed at studying ozone in the stratosphere, the air temperature profile up to the mesosphere, and the electron density and temperature in the ionosphere


L.Alfonsi, F. Ambroglini,G. Ambrosi, R. Ammendola,D. Assante, D. Badoni, V . A. Belyaev, W .J. Burger, A. Cafagna, P. Cipollone, G. Consolini, L. Conti, A. Contin, E. DeAngelis, C. DeDonato, G. DeFranceschi, A. DeSantis, C. DeSantis, P. Diego, M. Durante, C. Fornaro, C. Guandalini, G. Laurenti, M. Laurenza, I. Lazzizzera, M. Lolli, C. Manea, L. Marcelli, F. Marcucci, G.


The PBA (Propulsion Base Assembly) is designed, manufactured and tested as a standalone module by Rafael


Processor module based on SPARC ERC32, providing computation, Watch Dog Timer and communication via MIL and SpW buses


It then decays with a half-life of 1.5 million years


At the equator, water makes up about 0.25% of the molecules in Jupiter's atmosphere


The integration time for each pointing (all instruments) on the raster is flexible in the range between 0.5 hour to 1 hour


In addition to a conventional pulse-width limited processing, also known as low-resolution mode, the Poseidon-4 on board the Jason-CS satellites will also have the facility of simultaneous high-resolution (HR) processing, generally referred to as SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) mode processing


The PARASOL microsatellite of CNES consists of a box-like structure (size: 60 cm x 60 cm x 80 cm) with deployable solar panels (Myriade microsatellite bus)


Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 3-10, 2007


Miniature SPS (Satellite Positioning System)


Three spacecraft offered data on the CMEs: the two STEREO spacecraft and SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) of ESA and NASA


Israel's First Environmental Research Satellite Venus Ready to Go," The Jerusalem Post, May 24, 2017


On Sunday, Dec. 11, at 9:04 a.m. PST (12:04 p.m. EST, 17:04 UTC)


The Spectrometer on Integral (SPI) also detected the of X-rays burst


The composite material is graphite fiber


The proposal was rejected because no one had every demonstrated that the simultaneous, automated photometry of thousands of stars could be done


The researchers looked above all at the rotation period


The deflected gamma rays then pass through to the layer below (called PICSIT) where they can be captured and absorbed by the PICSIT crystals


The FTHSI instrument takes advantage of the VME satellite bus services by storing source data directly in an allocated RAM of 134 MByte


Jupiter which needs 11 years to make the full tour


In addition to the surface temperature, the age, and the proportion of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, the researchers looked above all at the rotation period


The satellite was able to draw to within 50 m of its target's object


The re-entry capsule of the Foton-M3 spacecraft landed safely on Sept.


They have also measured the typical velocity at which the electron currents flow


April 24, 2020 was China's "Space Day," celebrated on the 50 year anniversary of their first satellite launch


This allows Sentinel-6 to provide improved sea state and wind speed measurements, enhanced capabilities for river and lake hydrology applications while maintaining the stability of sea-level rise estimates


Is accompanied by a 160 m-diameter secondary body


The proposed mission was called FRESIP (FRequency of Earth-Size Inner Planets)


Superposed is an Earth image by ESA/EUMETSAT’s Meteosat satellite


The µPLP instrument consists of a Langmuir probe, mounting structures, and electronics system


First Science Results from NASA's Juno Mission


AMR measures the radiation reflected by the oceans at three different frequencies (e.g. 18.7 / 23.8 / 34.0 GHz)


March 14, 2018: Trailing Earth’s orbit at 94 million miles away (~151 million km)


Integral has since remained under control, and from 27 September all systems are back online


It consists of about four meter long independent identical sensors installed at the tips of four booms


Released BEESAT-4 (Berlin Educational and Experimental Picosatellite) into space 515 km above the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago


The TSU contains four units, namely the TCU (Telesupport Central Unit), the RFU (RF Unit), and the DHU (Data Handling Unit)


Real-time computing of the BER (Bit Error Rate) on those patterns is possible


Provides 380 MByte of solid state storage


The Pico Dragon project aims to promote the development of space technology sector, especially the first preparation for training human resources for self-designing and making Vietnam’s own earth-observation small satellites in the future


Both the ground and space operations segments were active from the beginning of the mission


Next to the primary payload of CartoSat-2A, the PSLV-C9 vehicle successfully launched the IMS-1 (Indian Microsatellite-1) of 83 kg and eight nanosatellites for international customers. Further secondary smallsat payloads on this flight were: CanX-2 a triple CubeSat of the University of Toronto (UTIAS/SFL, 3.5 kg), Toronto, Canada. Objective: Testing of a nano cold gas propulsion system, innovative attitude sensors and a commercial GPS receiver. CUTE-1.7+APD-2 CubeSat of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITech). Objective: Demonstration of a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) based bus system and APD (Avalanche Photodiode). AAUSat-2 a CubeSat of Aalborg University, Denmark (3 kg)


Others may be closer to Earth in temperature, such as TOI 700d


CSSWE homepage, URL: http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/csswe/


The installation of the MOMS-2P instrument on Priroda


The MicroSTAR accelerometer (as part of the payload suite in Figure 4) is composed of three units: The accelerometer Sensor Head (ASH), with the mechanical parts of the sensor, as the proof-mass, ULE plates and and the electrode cage surrounding it. The Front-End Electronic Unit (FEEU), which allows ultra-precise control of the proof-mass and to provides the acceleration measurement. Digital FEEU is baselined for NGGM


Airglow occurs when atoms and molecules, excited by sunlight, emit light to shed their excess energy


Local time at descending node (LTDN) = 9:30 hours


It will orbit Earth for around four months before reentering the atmosphere


FTHSI is the first functioning spaceborne hyperspectral imager


The TET bus is equipped with a semi-active TCS


Together, the SEP instruments measure electrons, protons and heavier ions from several tens of keV to approximately 100 MeV


Allows the follow of the propagation of CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections) from their onset at the Sun to 1 AU


NGGM Phase A is running an extension phase (8 months)


UPMSat-2 (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Satellite-2), a demonstration microsatellite (45 kg)


HummerSat-1, a project formerly referred to as MS-1 (Minisatellite-1), represents the first realization of a new generic micro/minisatellite development of DFHSat (DFH Satellite Co. Ltd.)


It is funded by a 3-year grant for two 1.5U CubeSats with a 1-year on-orbit mission life


AMR-C is a 3-frequency radiometer provided by NASA/JPL


The launch time each day is set for approximately 7:19 p.m. EDT (23:19 GMT)


The new INTEGRAL observations were made during January and February 2006


Aerojet Rocketdyne Delivers DART Spacecraft Propulsion Systems Ahead of 2021 Asteroid Impact Mission,” Aerojet Rocketdyne, 19 May 2020


The size of the radiator was defined by a thermal analysis and related tests


Encounter with the Jovian moon is expected to yield insights into its magnetosphere


ESA's INTEGRAL satellite has revealed no simultaneous gamma rays


"Coronavirus concerns force postponement of SpaceX launch with Argentine satellite," 24 March 2020"


The location of the capsule during the re-entry is obtained by the telemetry data, in particular by the GPS receiver data


Argument of perigee, inclination (non-sun-synchronous) 270.8268º


Earth's ionosphere stretches from 50 to 400 miles above the ground and overlaps the top of the atmosphere and the very beginning of space


Attitude determination accuracy of < 0.1º (3σ)


The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite was launched on 21 November 2020


Provides downlink at variable rates up to 2 Mbit/s QPSK (Quadra-Phase Shift Keying)


The observed distribution of plasma around the magnetic equator, made by NASA's TIMED spacecraft


The La Niña event that started in late 2020


Juno's thermal control subsystem uses a passive design with heaters and louvers


One of the two detectors of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) experiment, in the USA


In all, about 400 European and Russian students participated in the development of the YES2 satellite


Orbit control accuracy: 1 mm/s (velocity)


Thermospheric temperature measurements are required for the 90-105 km range


The Tianwen-1 probe, with a mass of about five tons, consists of an orbiter, a lander and a rover


Engineering around the debilitating effects of radiation has always been a challenge to spacecraft engineers for missions at Earth and elsewhere in the solar system


Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA


We selected the 3U GomX CubeSat platform (from GomSpace ApS)


Figure 5: A side view of the HEPD QM calorimeter. The 16 plastic scintillator planes can be seen


A Foton spacecraft has a typical mass of about 6200-6500 kg


PARASOL - Parasol effect and greenhouse effect


With the second lunar swingby by the Behind spacecraft (STEREO-B) on January 21 2007


Decametric radio emissions triggered by the interaction of Io with Jupiter's magnetic field


The satellite was named after Zhang Heng, a renowned scholar of the East Han Dynasty (AD 25-220)


The Doppler shift of the 557 nm (green) and 630 nm (red) OI emission lines


Its primary purpose was to conduct Earth resource experiments through remote sensing and to develop and verify remote sensing methods


The satellite bus is mainly designed using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products


The DXFC (Digital Xenon Flow Controller) that delivers a controlled mass flow rate according to mission requirements


Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich uses the latest radar altimetry technology


At Earth, auroras are usually visible only in a belt surrounding the magnetic poles, between 65 and 80 degrees latitude


Photodetector Model MT 9M001 by Micron Technology, Inc.


The reaction wheels have an angular momentum capacity of 0.36 Nms


Neutron stars that rotate once every few seconds


The platform features four deployable solar panels


A launch failure of OCO occurred on Feb. 24, 2009


China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled 137 million km


MightySAT I is a single mission project which uses an all-composite bus


The TET payload platform can be also designed as an optical bench


The Falcon 9 lifted off on schedule at 1:21 a.m. EST Nov. 24 (06:21 UTC) 2021


A typical Type Ia supernova brightens over the course of three weeks


The commissioning of ICON's four instruments has started and will continue through November


The probe mission may have just been unlucky, sampling an unusually dry and warm meteorological spot on Jupiter


Our z-flip technique is unfortunately much slower


Such impact conditions cannot be recreated in laboratory experiments and the relatively long and complex process of crater formation following such an impact – a matter of hours in the case of DART – made it impossible to realistically simulate these impact processes up to now


Active Region 2882, shown here near the middle of the Sun’s disk, erupted with a moderate level solar flare on Oct. 9, 2021


A remote Pacific nation threatened by rising seas


The PLASTIC (PLAsma and SupraThermal Ion and Composition) instrument suffered a background anomaly on Dec.


Mission scientists using observations by the spacecraft's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) have determined these atmospheric phenomena are extremely resilient, remaining in the same location


The fact that the S-6 PRF is lower than the S-3 one


A RISC-based single board computer RAD6000 (32 MHz)


The assumption to perform just a single thrust with the BIROS propulsion system


Magnetars are stellar remnants with some of the most intense magnetic fields in the Universe


PSLV-C9 launched successfully with 10 satellites,” April 28, 2008


Testing a new spaceborne receiver and data upload system for AIS (Automatic Identification System) support


The radiometer is calibrated every second via a Dicke switch and a calibration noise source employing noise diodes


The solar-powered rover, standing about 1.8 meters tall, has a life expectancy of at least 90 days


A Study of Some Physical Processes in the Hall Thruster, Operated in the Discharge Voltage up to 1000 V


It includes a SCC (Satellite Control Center) and a TT&C for S-band communications


Mass from the star spirals in towards the black hole via an accretion disk


A space carving algorithm is used to accomplish 3D reconstruction from the silhouette of the object


After the eruption, the equatorial electrojet surged to five times its normal peak power


"First Results Debuted at AGU," CU-Boulder


The mission's principal investigator is Scott Bolton


Use of a 3- axis gyroscope to measure the angular velocity when the satellite is on orbit


From the interferometer, a Fourier lens collimates the light


The mirrors are made of special Zerodur glass


The SCIP (Solar Centered Imaging Package) contains three compact telescopes


Iridium will complete a customer-funded study


Atlas V launches on classified Flight to orbit NROL-36 Payload, Spaceflight 101, Sept. 14, 2012


Target orbit for the 46 nanosatellites: altitude of 530 km, inclination = 97.51º


HRMR is an experimental radiometer receiver measuring high frequency channels (e.g. 90 / 130 / 168 GHz)


VM1 will start after the IOT (In Orbit Test) phase; it will mainly be devoted to the science mission objectives and is planned to last for 2.5 years


The satellite carries new digital altimeter technology with dedicated onboard processing


To demonstrate radically new operating concepts for future systems


Operating in the temperature range of 10-30 degrees Celsius


Tracks red and green airglow 100 km above the Earth's surface


Interferogram visibility @ OPD 4.2 & 6 cm 90% & 45%


Tianwen 1, the country's first independent Mars mission, was launched by a Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket on July 23


The HummerSat-1 spacecraft body has a size of 785 mm in diameter and 1032 mm in height


This appears to be causing the inner part of the disc to wobble like a spinning top that is slowing down


Accuracy of attitude alignment (pointing accuracy) 2 arcmin


In the case of a single STEREO spacecraft the mean grade is down to 7


An area of lower-than-normal sea level along and below the Equator in the central and eastern Pacific


The industrial consortium will operate the satellite in the first few days after launch


The probe has traveled about 97 days in orbit


Initiate its drift towards its final, operational orbit


Instrument mass, power 66/60 W (peak/average)


URL of presentation: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi


The SPC approved the confirmation of science operations until 31 December 2016


These included NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and the MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-Ray Imaging Cherenkov ) on La Palma, in the Canary Islands


The local time on the descending node (LTDN) is at 9:30 hours


Observation of the Earth and Its Environment: Survey of Missions and Sensors (Springer Verlag)


Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/NASA/ESA, M.H. Wong and I. de Pater (UC Berkeley) et al.


An average daily power budget of 700 W is available


Each satellite is enabled by hybrid propulsion (proportional cold gas plus electric propulsion)


Acquisition Mode, operating only in Ku-band


It has a primary mission of 90 sols (92 Earth days)


XMM-Newton looked at this unusual explosion twice over the first 100 days of its existence


Among the eight planets in the Solar System, Mars is the most similar to Earth


IMS-1 (TWSat) carries two payloads: the Mx (Multispectral Camera) and the HySI (Hyperspectral Imager)


The main scientific objectives of the Earth observation missions for terrestrial environment monitoring are: to monitor and analyze surface functioning under the influence of environmental factors (climate, topography, soils etc.)


The projects will provide space observations to study Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere


Shaonian Xing (Youth Star), a 2U CubeSat


Four of the veto counters are located at the sides of the instrument, in order to acquire only charged particles with trajectories fully inside the calorimeter, while the fifth one is below the LYSO layer


Plan is to extract ≥2 mm fragments from foam panels/loose pieces/dust


The structure includes two aluminum top and bottom hexagonal panels, six composite side panels and six ribs made of carbon fiber face sheets and aluminum honeycomb cores, and six aluminum longerons


The magnetic field at Earth measured 110 nT during the Carrington event of 1859


A mosaic of 11 science windows of the GPS performed during revolution 36 is shown


Solar Orbiter crossed one of comet ATLAS’s tails


(±0.5) nm off-band Filter FWHM & transmission O 2 A-band ≤2nm & 30%


Launch On 1 April 2019 (03:27 UTC, or 09:27 IST)


The SMARD payload consists of four release devices


October 18 was the "BGS First Light 20-Year Anniversary"


This antenna adjustment will begin on Aug. 20, 2014


TET-X bus shares the TET-1 bus envelope of 670 x 580 x 880 mm3


IKAR-P is a three-channel scanning microwave radiometer (RP-225) at a wavelength of 2.25 cm


This strike happened on a day when no relevant space weather activity was observed


The objective is to provide imagery for cartographic applications


EU countries, like all other countries that ratified the Paris Agreement, are committed to Nationally Determined Contributions for reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions


Calibration will be conducted at the beginning of every day


Where particles in the vicinity of the rotating neutron-star in the Crab Nebula are accelerated to immense energies


TETX (Telemetry Earth Terminal X-band), receiving station in Toulouse


ESA's mission scientist for Copernicus Sentinel-6, Craig Donlon


The scientists working on the data were dismayed to find ten times less water than expected


The module had one active docking assembly located along its longitudinal axis


With her method it will no longer be necessary to wait many years to know whether the detected single transit is due to the presence of a planet


In addition, the STEREO ground system includes a SDS (STEREO Data Server) for the distribution of all of the data and products required for operation of the STEREO observatories, as well as two HIL (Hardware-In-the-Loop) simulators for verification of commanding and analysis of anomalies


Another SPEQS-CS device was integrated into the Galassia CubeSat, a satellite designed by National University of Singapore (NUS) engineering students in 2015


The results would fit in a scenario, also studied in recent computer simulations, where the accretion flow in the vicinity of the black hole and the jets can rotate together


Frequency bandwidth ≤ 30 μN/√Hz < 3 mHz ≤ 1 μN/√Hz 30 mHz ≤ f < 10 Hz


The panchromatic images were taken by the high-resolution camera of Tianwen-1 at a distance of 330 to 350 km above the surface of Mars


CP5 (Cal Poly CubeSat 5) California Polytechnic State University 1U


The customer and Iridium can sign a hosting agreement and a data transmission services agreement


The prime STEREO mission was designed for two years of operations


Can be maintained at pressures from 0.2 torr to 1.7 atmospheres


These tests are completed at ESA's Permanent Facility for Altimetry Calibration (PFAC) in Crete, Greece


Unfortunately, on this occasion, the X-rays from Earth's aurora drowned out the cosmic background


The space component of Copernicus is co-funded by the EU and the ESA Member States


The mission was launched on 23 July, 2020


The Level-2 products of the MAGIC mission will be gravity field measurements, Level-2 de-aliasing products and precise science orbits


The current measured by logarithmic electrometers


Mass budget (HummerSat-1) Platform: 93 kg, payload: 66.5 kg


The APL STEREO MOT (Mission Operations Team) has the primary responsibility of management of the spacecraft bus


The spacecraft repositioned itself to point at a new patch of sky at the start of each three-month observing campaign


The OSIRIS Qualification Model passed the space qualification tests successfully


The test objects have had a variety of shapes, colors, and reflectivities


Spire's fleet of more than 70 active nanosatellites


The experimental data acquisition for specifying the interaction model: LEO satellite -GlobalSatar system presents the primary goal of the TNS-0 space experiment


Their brightnesses must be measured at least once every few hours


Mars landings require heat shielding, thrusters, and supersonic parachutes


MWR consists of six radiometers designed to measure the microwaves coming from six cloud levels


Funded by the Earth Observation Directorate


The current estimate for the >2mm DebriSat fragments to be collected is more than 200,000


ESA is supporting QARMAN through the ‘Fly' element of its long-running General Support Technology Program


Specifically the miniaturised gridded ion thruster technology developed in Europe


TNS (Technology Nanosatellites - Tekhnologicesky Nanosputnik or TEKh-42) is a nanosatellite program within the framework of FSUE (Federal State Unitary Enterprise-meaning a `government industry') / RSIDE (Russian Scientific Institute of Space Device Engineering)


For every nine times the outer planet in the system orbits the host star, the inner planet orbits almost exactly four times


Dynamo action in Jupiter's interior occurs in metallic hydrogen, beneath a layer expressing "helium rain"


Data collected by Juno's MWR during multiple passes reveal one possible clue: that the atmosphere's ammonia gas travels up and down in remarkable alignment with the observed jet streams


The S/C is built and integrated by JHU/APL


The C3D instrument uses 3 CMOS detectors with a power consumption of < 1W


This image has been obtained by IBIS in the 15-40 keV band


Only the 10 kHz tracking signal can be seen


GOMX-4B, a 6U CubeSat built at GOMSpace for ESA


This La Niña probably means bad news for the American Southwest, which should see lower than normal rainfall this winter


The recent contact with STEREO-B revealed new information about the spacecraft's rate of spin and precise location in space


The detailed technical definition continues in Phase-B2


BATC (Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation) developed Kepler’s flight system, including the spacecraft and the photometer, and is participating in mission operations


The data are now being processed at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany


Its swath decreases with respect to the scientific mission phase


China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled more than 8 million km away from Earth


BIROS fire detection satellite successfully launched into space," DLR, June 22, 2016


The 1.85-meter-tall robot, which is now hundreds of millions of kilometers from Earth


Provide highly accurate data on the gamma-ray background


The hardware platform (mainboard of ASAP-L) shown in Figure 2 (right) is equipped with 1.5 GByte of DDR3-RAM


This dramatic image of Io was taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons at 11:04 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, just about 5 hours after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter


The other three were emulated based on the design of the first one


NASA's Galileo spacecraft made its penultimate close approach back on May 20, 2000


Positions of STEREO-A and -B for 15 January 2018 at 16:00 UT


Design of the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for OpNav (DRACO) on the double asteroid redirection test (DART)


The 0.5 mm thick beryllium foil at the front of the detector stack acts as a high-pass filter, stopping all electrons < 400 keV


The launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is scheduled between July 25 and July 30


The CPU manages the following functionalities: communication with Satellite OBDH computer via CAN bus, storage of non volatile information, management - via internal "slow" control links bus- of TM/TC and LVPS control board, Trigger Board and DAQ Board, management of system diagnostic routines and of system configuration, system monitor


Producing the energy that is stored in the battery of the satellite platform


Juno's extended mission, which tasks the spacecraft with continuing its investigations through September 2025


The Mx camera represents the first miniaturized payload made by India


Data transfer from Moscow to Germany may be provided via suitable transportable storage media (Exabyte) or via Eutelsat satellite communication


Regions that are dark in visible light are very bright in infrared


Julia Figa Saldana, ocean altimetry program manager at the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)


Keep the particle contamination level on optical surfaces at a maximum of 300 ppm


Imaging Spectrometer Developments in Italian Space Agency


The main power bus of MIOSat (non-regulated 28 VDC)


QARMAN will be deployed into space in late January 2020


ISRPS Workshop on 'Sensors and Mapping from Space', September 27-30, 1999


Scientific Measurement Neutral Density, in-situ andBackground Plasma Density Pressure (Neutral Density) Ion Density TEC (also Ne)


The magnetic fields embedded within the solar wind are intertwined and complex


Remarkably, the addition of Galileo measurements brings an improvement in orbit determination quality


TNS-0 was deployed manually as a free-flying satellite on March 28, 2005 from the ISS (International Space Station)


Its redundant electronic units are mounted on the nadir pointing Main Payload Panel


Attitude is being sensed by solar sensors providing a coarse attitude estimate


The objective is to take pictures of the Northern light


The ground station will be capable of tracking satellites using orbit prediction from TLEs


The twin STEREO spacecraft confirmed their reality in February 2009 when sunspot 11012 unexpectedly erupted


Figure 9 illustrates the impact sequences of DebriSat


Based largely on the Seasat altimeter design


The data rate is reduced by 50% (SAR-RMC) (Range Migration Compensation)


Monitors a sharp change in leaf reflectance in the range 680 - 750 nm


Copernicus – Europe’s eyes on Earth – is the largest environmental space program ever designed in Europe to monitor our dynamic Earth


HRMR includes receiver bands at 90 GHz, 130 GHz, and 168 GHz


Spacecraft body tilting capability: ±30º in cross-track and along-track


Each Iridium PRIME SV will provide the complement of hosted payloads at least 1 Mbit/s of continuous connectivity


Increased spatial resolutions (up to 100 km)


Scientists around the world began observing this blazar – the likely source of the neutrino detected by IceCube – in a variety of wavelengths, from radio waves to high-energy gamma rays


The camera operates in a pushbroom scanning mode to image the Earth


The entire northern equatorial belt – a broad, brown, cyclonic band that wraps around the planet just above of the gas giant's equator


The SOC processing includes generation of calibrated photometric light curves (returned to the DMC as a Level 3 data set for inclusion in the Kepler public archive) and transit detection. STScI also provides p-mode analysis


The transceiver operates in the UHF band at 433 MHz


In the future, our system could be part of a global quantum network transmitting quantum signals to receivers on Earth or on other spacecraft


The UVS instrument was designed and built by SwRI (Southwest Research Institute) in San Antonio, Texas


William Cochran, McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin


An acquisition plan designed specifically around oil and gas provinces


A Sentinel mission to measure atmospheric CO2 with unprecedented high resolution and accuracy


The DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) Mission, which will launch next year


The newest U.S.-European sea level satellite, named Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, became the official reference satellite for global sea level measurements


To know how far the signals have travelled we need to know the satellite's orbital height


The launch of Shuttle flight STS-88 (Endeavour) took place on Dec. 4, 1998


Vienna (virtual presentation), 25/04/2023


Also high revisit frequencies (daily) in support of specific operational requirements


Proceedings of IEEE/IGARSS 2003, Toulouse, France, July 21-25, 2003


They're launching a mission to Mars, scheduled for this upcoming July


Even larger stars, up to 25–30 times more massive than the Sun


With just a few hours of power left, it seemed possible that the 19-year-old mission could be lost


The asteroid system – named Didymos – is typical of the thousands that pose an impact risk to our planet


DRDO is the operator of the EMISAT mission


Maximum 18 minutes later, the reentry phase is over


Powerful lightning flashes up to three times more energetic than Earth's largest "superbolts"


Stars farther than 3,000 light years are too faint for Kepler to observe


Most recently, they have attempted a monthly recovery operation using NASA's DSN (Deep Space Network)


To do this with greater precision than ever before


NASA’s first planet-hunter has confirmed more than 2,600 planets beyond the solar system


The HEPD particle detector and the EFD electric field detector for the CSES satellite


After the first orbital period of TNS-0 (90 minutes after deployment), the first signals of TNS-0 were received


We are continuing to analyze the XMM-Newton data to try to understand the nature of the source


VENµS is a demonstration satellite capable of providing frequent fly-by observations (2 days) at high resolution (5m), constant viewing angles, and constant lighting conditions, in 12 spectral bands


MIOSat mission analysis and scenario definition,” European Workshop on Space Mission Analysis, ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, Dec. 10-12, 2007


The orbital lifetime of the PICASSO mission is expected to be 29 months


The COR1 optical design is an all-refractive 7-element system


The objective is to test earth observation cameras and high-speed X-band communications


Vicarious radiometric calibrations of EOS sensors[J], Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 1996


In April 1993, General Secretary Boris Yeltsin met President Bill Clinton in Vancouver, Canada. The summit resulted in an agreement to establish a US-Russian commission


For many of the simulated stars a precision of 5 x 10 -6 was achieved


Integral seemed to go into an eclipse, a normal period of darkness as Earth gets between the spacecraft and the Sun


With a vertical resolution of 2 km after post-processing


Attitude pointing stability: 0.05º/s (3σ)


The LLITED A and B Cubesats were launched


Yasjka Meijer, working at ESA as mission scientist for the Copernicus Anthropogenic CO2M (Carbon Dioxide Monitoring) mission


Until contact was lost with one of the STEREO spacecraft in 2014


The STEREO mission design lifetime was two years


Our 11-meter satellite dish is located on the grounds of Space Sciences Lab


Overall system transmission O 2 A-band 8%


The CartoSat-2C mission was the primary payload on this flight


The BCP (Broad Cast Package) distributed on-board to all the instruments every 8 s


It has obtained a global geomagnetic map and an ionospheric map


Tim Fuller-Rowell, Mihail Codrescu, Bela G. Fejer, W. Borer, F. Marcos, D.N. Anderson, ”Dynamics of the Low-Latitude Thermosphere: Quiet and Disturbed Conditions,” Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 59, Issue 13, September 1997


GEOSAT is considered to be the first altimeter mission to provide the research community with long-term global observations of sea level, wind speed, wave height, and ice topography


At that time, the technology was on the Swedish PRISMA mission


Tyvak 0172 is a small spacecraft built by Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems


Typically less than 0.5 second delay for payload commanding or for data transmission


Introduction of a new, "interleaved" SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) operating mode


Using data from ESA's INTEGRAL mission, a team of astronomers has mapped out galactic motions


The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter 32 times


Customers will have access to diverse types and volumes of information depending on the number of satellites contributed to the constellation


The two spacecraft drift away from the Sun-Earth line by 22° per year


The AT2018cow explosion was not only 10 to 100 times brighter than any other supernova previously observed


INTEGRAL is now running a Key Program, in which almost four weeks of its observing time is given over to the study of the galactic center


Callisto's surface is extremely heavily cratered and ancient


The Kepler Observatory was launched on March 7, 2009 (03:49:57 UTC) on a ULA (United Launch Alliance) Delta-II 7925-10L vehicle from Space Launch Complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL


IMES communicates with the ground via the S-band RF system


In 2024, the European Space Agency ESA will send a space probe to Dimorphos as part of the space mission HERA


The re-processed data were posted directly to Exoplanet Explorers, a project where the public searches Kepler's K2 observations to locate new transiting planets


Kinetic impactors are useful in situations where an asteroid deflection Δv of mm/s to cm/s would be appropriate


Volodymyr Savchenko of the François Arago Centre in Paris, France


The satellites will measure their distance to the ocean surface with an accuracy of a few centimeters, from an altitude of 1,336 km


Both scanners (MSU-SK and MSU-E) are operationally coupled


The European Space Agency ESA will send a space probe to Dimorphos as part of the space mission HERA


Deployed into orbit from the International Space Station on June 17, 2019


Neutron stars such as IGR J16283-4838 are often part of binary systems, orbiting a normal star


Without degradation in precision and accuracy compared to the currently flying Jason-2 mission


Ganymede is the only moon known to have its own internally generated magnetic field


October 30, 2018: After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations


Due to uncertainties about the remaining available fuel


The eruptions lasted up to three days each


A solar generator comprising 3 panels (1 fixed and 2 deployable) with 280 W EOL electrical power capacity


Photos of the sensor complement, from left: camera, gyroscope and housekeeping sensors


Land-cover and land use mapping, change detection, biodiversity and environmental studies, agriculture studies, ecosystem functioning models, snow cover modeling, water turbidity monitoring, water management issues


“This intriguing, distant world gives us even greater hope that a second Earth lies among the stars, waiting to be found,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington


"The current generates its own magnetic field, which fights Earth's magnetic field as it's passing through," Immel said


In this orbit, the solar array input power is sufficient to cover any instrument/spacecraft mode


Shades of blue indicate sea levels that were lower than average; normal sea-level conditions appear white; and reds indicate areas where the ocean stood higher than normal


The radar antenna of 35 m2 is fully deployed


Including Amy Simon of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland


The optical system of EUVI, consisting of entrance filter, shutter, filter wheel, primary mirror and active secondary mirror, and a CCD array


The isostatic mount mounts to a specially designed side panel that replaces a section of the ISIS CubeSat chassis


It contains most of the gas and dust that wasn't incorporated into the Sun


William Kurth of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, lead co-investigator for the Waves investigation


The optics subsystem employs a Ritchie-Cretien reflective type objective


The first two images from NASA Juno's June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede have been received on Earth


NASA's DART spacecraft is due to collide with the smaller body of the Didymos binary asteroid system


Thermocouple Temperature on the surface and in the heatshield for reverse calculation of the heat-flux on the surface and in the heatshield


Phoenix (Arizona State University) – 09:35:00 GMT


The EELV selection is progressing with Launch Services Provider (LSP)


Tianwen-1 is currently on track for a July or August 2020 launch


Then the spacecraft, about the size of a small car, would strike the smaller body at approximately 3.7 miles per second


China’s first independent interplanetary mission


CO2M will bring benefits to the whole world thanks to the Copernicus policy on open and free access to data


The Kepler mission has been optimized to search for Earth-size planets (0.5 to 10 earth masses) in the HZ (Habitable Zone) of solar-like stars


Predicting these winds is key to improving our ability to predict what happens in the ionosphere


Thrust Option A (Resistojet mode): ca.. 67 mN per thruster


The active thruster to be fired is selected by the TSU (Thruster Selecting Unit)


The four STEREO instrument suites (SECCHI, IMPACT, SWAVES, and PLASTIC)


The lack of data from the Star Tracker would explain why the radio signal after the reset was initially very weak and then faded away


The transmitter shall interface to a 7 dBi S-band patch antenna


The DHS comprises two internally redundant units, the OBC and the RIU


China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter, carried the rover to Mars, had altered its orbit Monday


Flying a spacecraft directly into a small Solar System body at speeds of about 15,000 miles per hour


October 28, 2021: New findings from NASA's Juno probe orbiting Jupiter


Iron-60 is produced from pre-existing stable iron isotopes by a process called ‘neutron capture’ in the respective layers where helium and carbon atoms are undergoing fusion


China's Mars probe over 8m km away from Earth


The ERM mission continued until January 1990


The Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio


Mudanjiang: In the buildup phase as of 2008


RF communications are provided in S-band (frequency = 2.2 GHz) at a downlink data rate of 400 kbit/s


The Jovian weather layer, from its very top to a depth of 3,000 km


Reconnection happens when magnetic field lines merge when they get too close to each other


The SORTIE (Scintillation Observations and Response of the Ionosphere to Electrodynamics) mission


Capable of measuring relativistic outer radiation belt electrons in the energy range of 0.5 to > 3 MeV


This ToO began at 15:30:59 on 24 January


Its position could only be narrowed down to a very long strip across the sky


Light curves (brightness vs. time) for four emission lines seen by EUV


China releases new Mars image taken by Tianwen 1 probe


Has covered 738.6 meters since landing in January 2019


The ion telescope SIT (Suprathermal Ion Telescope) on board the STEREO probes recorded the composition of the particle streams


Containing the on-board measurements of temperatures, voltages, etc.


Subsequent relative orbit prediction accurate at the meter level during the following hours


Multiple rendezvous planned for three of Jupiter's most intriguing Galilean moons: Ganymede, Europa, and Io


Orbit descriptor Parameter Period 6028 seconds (~100.5 minutes)


The size information of a tracked debris can be inferred from its RCS (Radar Cross Section)


The rover will suspend its operations from mid-September to late-October


Iridium PRIME will not be equipped with the L-band RF equipment


A cylindrical lens, which re-images one axis of the input aperture onto the detector array providing the one dimension of imaging


Scientists from the Space Research Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences assisted in the development of the magnetometer on the Tianwen-1 orbiter


With the end of the Cold War in early 1990s and the collapse of the former USSR, construction work stopped and the Priroda module was put into storage


Payload Data-Handling and Transmission (PDHT). Including: MMFU (Mass Memory and Formatting Unit, IT) X-band System (XBS, GER/SWE)


The system calibration and image acquisition process are automated to result in push-button operations


We know the spacecraft's retirement isn't the end of Kepler's discoveries


The outburst was discovered on 17 September 2006 by staff at the ISDC (INTEGRAL Science Data Center)


The joint cooperative space program of the United States and the Russian Federation, involving the Mir station and its modules, spelled out the following goals


Juno came within 31,136 miles (50,109 km) of Ganymede


A 38 Whr (4 lithium-ion 18650 cells, 7.7 Whr maximum depth of discharge) battery pack with the electrical power management system (EPS)


With high spectral and angular resolution over practically the full spherical range


At the time surrounding its closest approach of Ganymede – at about 62,000 miles (100,000 km)


We have to make more effort in space, to overcome radiation, take account of signal dynamics and make use of distant signals that have been weakened by passage through Earth's atmosphere


The probe carried out its first orbital correction on Aug 2


China’s Tianwen-1 mission, the country’s first independent interplanetary expedition which launched in July 2020


The Mars orbit insertion maneuver was designed to place the Tianwen-1 into an elliptical orbit of 400 by 180,000 km inclined by 10 degrees, with an orbital period of 10 days


The behavior of this source, or engine, as revealed in the data, suggests that the strange phenomenon could either be a nascent black hole or neutron star with a powerful magnetic field, sucking in the surrounding material


The two detectors for the ICON FUV instrument are MCP (Microchannel Plate) intensified CCD detectors


We are already designing the concept for a Sentinel mission to measure atmospheric CO2 with unprecedented high resolution and accuracy


The difference between the solar array normal vector and the sun vector can be up to 40 degrees during the first two years of operations (during eclipse seasons: up to 30º) and up to 30º during the extended mission phase


9th Annual Spring CubeSat Developer's Workshop, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA, April 18-20, 2012


The data from Sentinel-6 show great performance based on validation by independent measurements on the ground


The MIGHTI instrument is provided by NRL (Naval Research Laboratory) with Christoph Englert as PI


Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet


PICASSO - Pico-Satellite for Atmospheric and Space Science Observations


IWPSS (International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space), Moffett Field, CA, USA, March 25-27, 2013


This was independently confirmed a few hours later by the Survey for Transient Astronomical Radio Emission 2 (STARE2) in the US


Measuring CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere is not sufficient to estimate CO2 emissions


This EUV instrument follows the heritage of four UCB "EURD-class" astrophysical space flight instruments


The X-ray flare was first detected by Integral on 13 August 2017


Four years into the mission, after the primary mission objectives had been met, mechanical failures temporarily halted observations


VHF uplink and UHF downlink at 9.6 kbit/s both ways


Thoroughly tested their communications link, and verified the spacecraft's response to their commands. They have also been fine-tuning the instruments


The Kepler focal plane is approximately 30 x 30 cm in size


Recorded by Zhurong’s climate station, which intends to capture sounds of Martian winds


Data from ICON is the first concrete observation of winds fueling the dynamo, eventually influencing space weather


The Magnetometer will detect the magnetic environment on Mars


Stripmap SP: HH or HV or VH or VV DP: HH/HV or VV/VH QP: HH/HV/VH/VV < 10 m < 10 m < 10 m


Tianwen-1 is expected to enter Mars orbit next month


Zhurong has covered ground much more quickly than Yutu-2 due to greater autonomy and ability to negotiate obstacles


"On Orbit: Week Three – Entering Science Mode," CU-Boulder, Oct.