On the feasibility of imaging radar on small spacecraft.
Imaging radar systems for employment on small spacecraft, fabricating small lightweight radar systems packages with integrated circuit techniques
Moore, R. K.↗
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2021 NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program Video
The 2021 NASA Small Spacecraft Technology program video is an overview of the history and future plans of the program. It shares the impacts the program has made to date, as well as technologies, missions, and an initiative that will promote significant NASA contributions toward the advancement of the small spacecraft platform capability.
Justin Victor Treptow↗
NASA Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute: Products and Activities
This presentation summarizes the current activities and products managed by NASA's Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI) and includes a brief overview of the on-orbit and upcoming missions managed by NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology Program. S3VI's activities and products focus on information sharing across the small spacecraft community at large and include webinar series, the annual Small Spacecraft Technology State of the Art Report, multiple databases, and a webportal.
Bruce D Yost↗
Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute - Presentation to the Committee of the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science
The Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI) was established in 2017 to leverage the growing small spacecraft community, promote innovation, identify emerging technology opportunities, and provide an efficient channel for communication about small spacecraft systems with industry, academia, and other government agencies. This presentation offers an overview of the S3VI’s strategy to provide the first one-stop shop for technical knowledge in the rapidly burgeoning small spacecraft technology fields and outlines how the institute can support the planetary science decadal survey efforts.
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Move to Talk, Talk to Move: Tightly Integrated Communication and Control for Coordinated Swarms of Small Spacecraft
The Move to Talk, Talk to Move: Tightly Integrated Communication and Control for Coordinated Swarms of Small Spacecraft project will build on existing research on collaborative autonomy of multi-agent systems and design techniques that will enable coordinated communication and control of spacecraft. The success of many space exploration and science missions hinges on real-time monitoring of time-varying and/or geographically distributed phenomena. This monitoring can be achieved using a swarm of small spacecraft, which collect data about the environment and share information within the swarm of spacecraft. Current space exploration missions typically issue commands to control each spacecraft individually from Earth, and the data gathered by each spacecraft is also transmitted to Earth separately via X-band communication over the Deep Space Network (DSN). This approach is expensive, slow, and unreliable. Many coordinated tasks amongst a swarm of autonomous agents (or, specifically, small spacecraft) rely on communication. Existing control, estimation, and decision algorithms often assume that mostly reliable communications are available; however, this is often not the case in actual environments and thus is a barrier to operating swarms of small spacecraft.
Qi Han↗
An Overview of the Current State of the Art on Small Spacecraft Avionics Architectures
This paper will expand on the technological progression of small spacecraft avionicsystems and architectures. The authors will identify modern requirements of avionics systems to meet the need of the modern, complex small spacecraft, expand upon the updated avionics architecture composition, list any challenges this technology may encounter, and highlight activities that are being conducted to develop a new generational small spacecraft avionics system.
Bruce Daniel Yost↗
Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Small Spacecraft Missions
AES Artemis 1 Small Spacecraft to the Moon and Deep Space
Andres Martinez↗
NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program: Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology Program expands the ability to execute unique missions through rapid development and demonstration of capabilities for small spacecraft applicable to exploration, science and the commercial space sector. This presentation provides information on three technology demonstration missions currently on orbit or in development to include Starling, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, and DiskSat.
Roger C Hunter↗
NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program: Select Technology Demonstration Missions
NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology Program expands the ability to execute unique missions through rapid development and demonstration of capabilities for small spacecraft applicable to exploration, science and the commercial space sector. This presentation provides information on three technology demonstration missions currently on orbit or in development to include Starling, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, and DiskSat.
Roger C Hunter↗
NASA SMALL SPACECRAFT TECHNOLOGY (SST) PROGRAM and RECENT TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS
The Small Spacecraft Technology (SST) program within NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, expands the ability to execute unique missions through rapid development and demonstration of capabilities for small spacecraft applicable to exploration, science and the commercial space sector.
Roger C. Hunter↗
NASA’s Small Spacecraft Electric Propulsion (SSEP) System
Developed by NASA’s Glenn Research Center, the Small Spacecraft Electric Propulsion (SSEP) Technology Suite, LEW-TOPS-162, enables a compact, high-performance, enduring and scalable primary propulsion system for small spacecraft. The SSEP belongs to a class of in-space propulsion known as solar electric propulsion (SEP), where thrust is derived from solar energy and solar panels, rather than heavy, combustible stored chemicals. Combining electrostatics with magnetism, the SSEP converts solar energy to thrust by trapping ejected electrons in doughnut-like ring contained within an annular magnetic field of its thruster. This creates a Hall current, a circulating swirl of electrons, and enables Hall Effect Thrusters (HETs). Thrust is generated when an ejected neutral gas impacts an electron in the Hall current, ionizing it, and abruptly accelerating it perpendicular to the Hall current due to the electrostatic field of the circulating electrons.
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NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program: Overview and Select Technology Demonstration Missions
NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology Program expands the ability to execute unique missions through rapid development and demonstration of capabilities for small spacecraft applicable to exploration, science and the commercial space sector. This presentation provides information on three technology demonstration missions currently on orbit or in development to include Starling, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, and DiskSat. Information on the program's University SmallSat Technology Partnerships initiative will also be provided.
Roger C. Hunter↗
NASA Small Spacecraft & Distributed Systems: Overview and Select Technology Demonstration Missions
NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology Program expands the ability to execute unique missions through rapid development and demonstration of capabilities for small spacecraft applicable to exploration, science and the commercial space sector. This presentation provides information on three technology demonstration missions currently on orbit or in development to include Starling, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, and DiskSat. Information on the program's University SmallSat Technology Partnerships initiative will also be provided.
Roger C. Hunter↗
The Small Spacecraft Landscape at Earth and Beyond – a Look to the Future
The Small Spacecraft Landscape at Earth and Beyond – a Look to the Future presentation provides an introduction to small spacecraft; outlines what NASA is doing with the platform; and shares recent and plans for future missions in deep space.
Therese Moretto Jorgensen↗
NASA Small Spacecraft & Distributed Systems - Recent and Upcoming Technology Demonstrations and Development Efforts
The Small Spacecraft Technology program expands U.S. capability to execute unique missions through rapid development and demonstration of capabilities for small spacecraft applicable to exploration, science and the commercial space sector.
Roger C Hunter↗
NASA Small Spacecraft & Distributed Systems: Recent and Upcoming Technology Demonstrations and Development Efforts
NASA's Small Spacecraft & Distributed Systems expands U.S. capability to execute unique missions through rapid development and demonstration of capabilities for small spacecraft applicable to exploration, science and the commercial space sector. A summary of the technology demonstration missions, the University SmallSat Technology Partnerships initiative, and other technology development efforts will be provided.
Roger C Hunter↗
Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI)
This presentation provides and overview of the products, technology demonstration missions, and efforts of NASA's Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute and Small Spacecraft Technology Program.
Bruce D Yost↗