Verification Approaches for Nano- and Micro-Satellites II

Dear Colleagues,

Two years on from the original call for contributions, we can say with certainty that the Special Issue on “Verification Approaches for Nano- and Micro-Satellites” has been a success, with the vast majority of the intended research areas mentioned in the first call having been covered by the Authors, and valuable lessons learnt having been reported. Most notably, the manuscripts provided strong evidence on the importance of an early approach to system integration, possibly starting even before subsystems completion. Indeed, such an approach may help to identify system level design flaws at a point when they can be recovered with a minimal impact on the overall project schedule, which is of paramount importance for those programs leveraging rapid deployment times, as for typical nano- and micro-satellite missions.

After the Special Issue (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/aerospace/special_issues/nano_micro_satellites) was completed, as Editors of MDPI Aerospace, we continued to receive several submissions dealing with ground verification approaches for small satellite platforms, attesting to the ongoing relevance of this topic of interest. As such, we have decided that it would be beneficial to the field and to our readers to open another volume.

It is therefore our pleasure to introduce Volume II of the MDPI Aerospace Special Issue on “Verification Approaches for Nano- and Micro-Satellites”.

Prof. Paolo Tortora
Prof. Dr. Dario Modenini
Guest Editors

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