Innovative Space Mission Analysis and Design (Volume II)
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Astronautics & Space Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 14177
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Interests: space technologies; optics; structures; thermal design; structure dynamics; tribology; mission design; space sciences; earth observation; astrodynamics
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Dear Colleagues,
Space science research is having a major impact on our daily lives and can provide a solid framework for global cooperation. Recent advances in space science and technology are often enabled by the adoption of new technology. In some instances, this is where the technology is invented; however, it is more commonly adopted from another scientific or industrial area of application. The adoption of new technology typically occurs via one of two processes. The more common process is incremental progress by a series of small improvements; however, occasionally this process is disruptive, with a new technology completely replacing an older one.
Therefore, we invite papers that address these new technologies, as well as many related topics, such as new and more compact payloads, innovative design, thermal control developments, unconventional mission orbits, clusters of satellites, formation flying, innovative platforms. Papers which explore the general field of innovative space mission design and analyze space sciences (solar system, exoplanets, astrophysics, fundamental physics, plasma physics) and space weather are also welcomed.
This Special Issue will focus on novel concepts and technologies that are necessary to enable new spacecraft or mission concepts with higher performances and lower mass and costs. This Special Issue will also cover topics of remote sensing: a better resolution, increased accuracy, higher bandwidth, and greater time coverage of the Earth; disruptive technologies for remote sensing; super-spectral and hyperspectral payloads; the performance of sensors and their underlying technologies; and significant improvements in areas such as miniaturization and power reduction. It will also focus on improving payload (radiometric and spectral parameters, spatial resolution, swath, polarization) and solutions for stable and large optomechanical elements and systems (e.g., lightweight telescope mirrors), new focal planes, improved wavefront error, line of sight control, high-performance actuators, onboard image processing, onboard artificial intelligence, and data fusion integration.
New developments in astrophysics including future multi-messenger observations could also be covered.
Prof. Dr. Pierre Rochus
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- instrumentation
- instrument technologies
- photometers
- polarimeters
- spectrographs
- telescopes
- lightweight telescope mirrors
- radiometric and spectral parameters
- spatial resolution
- swath
- multispectral filters
- straylight reduction
- increased swath and resolution
- technologies for super-spectral and hyper-spectral imaging
- onboard data processing
- adaptive optics
- very high-resolution optical EO for LEO
- high resolution optical EO for GEO/HEO
- detectors
- materials
- high performance actuators
- integrated multi-instrument
- on-board payload data processing
- onboard data/image optimization and compression
- advanced SAR
- new generation Automatic Identification Systems (AIS)
- better resolution
- increased accuracy
- higher bandwidth
- unconventional mission orbits
- cluster of satellites
- formation flying
- cislunar dynamics
- earth quasi-satellites
- disposal orbits
- third body effect
- lunar orbits
- space weather
- suitable vantage points (Lagrange 1 and 5; earth trailing orbit around the sun as well as on earth-orbiting satellites)
- innovative platform
- miniaturization
- power reduction
- more capabilities into smaller packages
- constellations of small satellites
- Cubesats and other small space platforms
- Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)
- multi-messenger astrophysics
- new windows to the universe
- exoplanets
- dark matter
- dark energy
- gravitational waves
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