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Articles 1021 - 1050 of 1869
Full-Text Articles in Space Vehicles
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Of Launch Vehicles Using Exergy As An Objective, Andrew Gilbert, Bryan Mesmer
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Of Launch Vehicles Using Exergy As An Objective, Andrew Gilbert, Bryan Mesmer
Von Braun Symposium Student Posters
No abstract provided.
Space Systems Overview Of Sse -120 Satellites & Space Systems I, Robert J. Twiggs
Space Systems Overview Of Sse -120 Satellites & Space Systems I, Robert J. Twiggs
Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection
A PowerPoint presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs on "Space Systems Overview of SSE -120 Satellites & Space Systems I" on October 27, 2016.
Launch Vehicles, Robert J. Twiggs
Launch Vehicles, Robert J. Twiggs
Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection
A PowerPoint Presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs on "Launch Vehicles" from October 27, 2016.
Pocketqube: The New Opportunity To Get Into Space, Robert J. Twiggs
Pocketqube: The New Opportunity To Get Into Space, Robert J. Twiggs
Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection
A PowerPoint presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs titled "PocketQube: The New Opportunity to get into Space" from October 3, 2016.
Pocketqube Opportunity Mission, Robert J. Twiggs
Pocketqube Opportunity Mission, Robert J. Twiggs
Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection
A PowerPoint presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs titled "PocketQube Opportunity Mission" from October 2, 2016.
Pocketqube Opportunity Mission: Vmo Mission, Robert J. Twiggs
Pocketqube Opportunity Mission: Vmo Mission, Robert J. Twiggs
Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection
A PowerPoint presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs titled "PocketQube Opportunity Mission: VMO Mission" from September 30, 2016.
Lunar Icecube: Nasa Nextstep Lunar Cubesat Mission, Robert J. Twiggs
Lunar Icecube: Nasa Nextstep Lunar Cubesat Mission, Robert J. Twiggs
Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection
A PowerPoint presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs titled "Lunar IceCube: NASA NEXTSTEP Lunar CubeSat Mission" from September 29, 2016.
Space Qualification Testing Of A Deployable Shape Memory Alloy Cubesat Antenna, Carl L. Kobza
Space Qualification Testing Of A Deployable Shape Memory Alloy Cubesat Antenna, Carl L. Kobza
Theses and Dissertations
Increasingly capable CubeSat missions require antenna with improved Radio Frequency performance over the traditional CubeSat antennas. Deployable quadrifilar helical antennas (QHA) enable an acceptable stowing volume and deploy to provide increased gain and bandwidth over traditional patch and dipole antennas. Extensive ground testing is required to ensure the antenna is space qualified and to characterize the antenna deployment in the space environment. AFIT requires a QHA to perform a future CubeSat geolocation mission and contracted Helical Communication Technologies (HCT) to design and manufacture a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) L-band deployable QHA. Vibration, thermal vacuum, laser vibrometer, and Voltage Standing Wave …
Orbit Determination Using Vinti's Solution, Steven P. Wright
Orbit Determination Using Vinti's Solution, Steven P. Wright
Theses and Dissertations
Orbital altitudes congested with spacecraft and debris combined with recent collisions have all but negated the Big Sky Theory. As the sheer number of orbital objects to track grows unbounded so does interest in prediction methods that are rapid and minimally computational. Claimed as the \other solvable solution, the recently completed solution too orbital motion about the earth, based on Vinti's method and including the major effects of the equatorial bulge, opens up the prospect of much more accurate analytical models for space situational awareness. A preliminary examination of this solution is presented. A numerical state transition matrix is found …
Adaptive Estimation And Heuristic Optimization Of Nonlinear Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics, Joshuah A. Hess
Adaptive Estimation And Heuristic Optimization Of Nonlinear Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics, Joshuah A. Hess
Theses and Dissertations
For spacecraft conducting on-orbit operations, changes to the structure of the spacecraft are not uncommon. These planned or unanticipated changes in inertia properties couple with the spacecraft's attitude dynamics and typically require estimation. For systems with time-varying inertia parameters, multiple model adaptive estimation (MMAE) routines can be utilized for parameter and state estimates. MMAE algorithms involve constructing a bank of recursive estimators, each assuming a different hypothesis for the systems dynamics. This research has three distinct, but related, contributions to satellite attitude dynamics and estimation. In the first part of this research, MMAE routines employing parallel banks of unscented attitude …
Pocketcubes/Cubesats On Antares, Robert J. Twiggs, Walter Holemans, Michael Bitzer
Pocketcubes/Cubesats On Antares, Robert J. Twiggs, Walter Holemans, Michael Bitzer
Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection
A PowerPoint Presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs, Walter Holmans, and Michael Bitzer titled "PocketCubes/CubeSats on Antares" from September 6, 2016.
Citizensatellite: Low Cost Missions For The Unordinary Innovator, Robert J. Twiggs, Amin Djamshidpour, Ted Tagami, Tony So
Citizensatellite: Low Cost Missions For The Unordinary Innovator, Robert J. Twiggs, Amin Djamshidpour, Ted Tagami, Tony So
Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection
A PowerPoint presentation created by Robert Twiggs, Amin Djamshidpour, Ted Tagami, and Tony Sotitled "CitizenSatellite: Low Cost Missions for the Unordinary Innovator" from August 19, 2016.
Secondary Launch Opportunities Orbital Atk, Robert J. Twiggs
Secondary Launch Opportunities Orbital Atk, Robert J. Twiggs
Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection
A PowerPoint Presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs titled "Secondary Launch Opportunities Orbital ATK" from August 17, 2016.
Citizen Satellite: A Way To Have Low Cost Space Missions For The Unordinary Innovator, Robert J. Twiggs, Amin Djamshidpour, Ted Tagami, Tony So
Citizen Satellite: A Way To Have Low Cost Space Missions For The Unordinary Innovator, Robert J. Twiggs, Amin Djamshidpour, Ted Tagami, Tony So
Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection
A PowerPoint presentation created by Robert Twiggs, Amin Djamshidpour , Ted Tagami, and Tony So titled "Citizen Satellite: A Way to have Low Cost Space Missions for the Unordinary Innovator" from August 7, 2016.
Meeting The Dod’S Tactical Weather Needs Using Cubesats, Shayna K. Mckenney
Meeting The Dod’S Tactical Weather Needs Using Cubesats, Shayna K. Mckenney
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis investigates a CubeSat design that uses Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components to capture, store, process, and downlink collected terrestrial weather data at resolutions near stat-of-the-art. The weather phenomena to be detected and transmitted in a timely manner are cloud formations, wind profiles, ocean currents, sea state, lightning, temperature profiles, and precipitation. It is hypothesized and shown that the proposed design will provide an improvement on the current U.S. tactical weather collection satellites because of the anticipated increased reliability and lowered cost to build and maintain the proposed CubeSat constellation. The methodology employed a multi-phase approach through the collective research of …
Sysml Based Cubesat Model Design And Integration With The Horizon Simulation Framework, Shaun Luther
Sysml Based Cubesat Model Design And Integration With The Horizon Simulation Framework, Shaun Luther
Master's Theses
This thesis examines the feasibility of substituting the system input script of Cal Poly’s Horizon Simulation Framework (HSF) with a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) model designed with the Systems Modeling Language (SysML). A concurrent student project, SysML Output Interface Creation for the Horizon Simulation Framework, focused on design of the HSF Translator Plugin which converts SysML models to an HSF specific XML format. A SysML model of the HSF test case, Aeolus, was designed. The original Aeolus HSF input script and the translated SysML input script retained the format and dependency structure required by HSF. Both input scripts …
An Iteration On The Horizon Simulation Framework To Include .Net And Python Scripting, Morgan Yost
An Iteration On The Horizon Simulation Framework To Include .Net And Python Scripting, Morgan Yost
Master's Theses
Modeling and Simulation is a crucial element of the aerospace engineering design pro- cess because it allows designers to thoroughly test their solution before investing in the resources to create it. The Horizon Simulation Framework (HSF) v3.0 is an aerospace modeling and simulation tool that allows the user to verify system level requirements in the early phases of the design process. A low fidelity model of the system that is created by the user is exhaustively tested within the built-in Day-in-the-Life simulator to provide useful information in the form of failed requirements, system bottle necks and leverage points, and potential …
Phased Array Antenna Investigation For Cubesat Size Satellites, Kien Dang
Phased Array Antenna Investigation For Cubesat Size Satellites, Kien Dang
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Science Morehead State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science by Kien Dang on April 18, 2016.
Ergonomics In Space Flight – Past, Present, & Future, Robert Consolo
Ergonomics In Space Flight – Past, Present, & Future, Robert Consolo
Human Factors and Applied Psychology Student Conference
From the days of “The Rocket Men” to the uprising of SpaceX, spaceflight has always inspired awe in humanity. If you examine the men that were apart of those first missions, you will find that they were not only the most capable, but won the genetic lottery to become this nations first astronauts. Looking to the times of Mercury, you see the extreme constraints that potential astronaut candidates had to meet in order to go to space. Aside from the rigorous medical testing, potential candidates also had to meet strict height and weight requirements. Early candidates could not be taller …
Designing A Mobile Space Habitat Analog, Victor Kitmanyen, Matthew Burkhard, Timothy Disher
Designing A Mobile Space Habitat Analog, Victor Kitmanyen, Matthew Burkhard, Timothy Disher
Human Factors and Applied Psychology Student Conference
No abstract provided.
The Effect Of Golden Pothos In Reducing The Level Of Colatile Organic Compounds In A Simulated Spacecraft Cabin, Matthew Ursprung
The Effect Of Golden Pothos In Reducing The Level Of Colatile Organic Compounds In A Simulated Spacecraft Cabin, Matthew Ursprung
Research Horizons Day Posters
No abstract provided.
Syllabus: Space Systems Engineering 122 (Satellites And Space Systems Ii), Robert J. Twiggs
Syllabus: Space Systems Engineering 122 (Satellites And Space Systems Ii), Robert J. Twiggs
Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection
A syllabus created by Professor Bob Twiggs for Space Systems Engineering 122 (Satellites and Space Systems II) taught at Morehead State University in the Spring of 2016.
Multi-Cubesat Deployment Strategies: How Different Satellite Deployment Schemes Affect Satellite Separation And Detection For Various Types Of Constellations And Missions, Scott A. Biehl Jr.
Multi-Cubesat Deployment Strategies: How Different Satellite Deployment Schemes Affect Satellite Separation And Detection For Various Types Of Constellations And Missions, Scott A. Biehl Jr.
Theses and Dissertations
As economics drive an increased demand for small satellites and, consequently, an increase in the number of satellites deployed per launch, different deployment schemes and their effects on satellite dynamics must be well understood. While there are advantages to deploying multiple satellites at once, users may have trouble with tracking, identifying, and communicating with their satellites. This investigation examines the deployment of eight 3U CubeSats, and the resulting relative motion within a constellation. Both the distance between any two satellites within a constellation and the volume of a polygon encompassing a constellation are used to analyze the satellite dynamics within …
Key Detection Rate Modeling And Analysis For Satellite-Based Quantum Key Distribution, Jonathan C. Denton
Key Detection Rate Modeling And Analysis For Satellite-Based Quantum Key Distribution, Jonathan C. Denton
Theses and Dissertations
A satellite QKD model was developed and validated, that allows a user to determine the optimum wavelength for use in a satellite-based QKD link considering the location of ground sites, selected orbit and hardware performance. This thesis explains how the model was developed, validated and presents results from a simulated year-long study of satellite-based quantum key distribution. It was found that diffractive losses and atmospheric losses define a fundamental trade space that drives both orbit and wavelength selection. The optimal orbit is one which generates the highest detection rates while providing equal pass elevation angles and durations to multiple ground …
Space Object Self-Tracker On-Board Orbit Determination Analysis, Stacie M. Flamos
Space Object Self-Tracker On-Board Orbit Determination Analysis, Stacie M. Flamos
Theses and Dissertations
Due to the United States' growing dependence on space based assets and the in- creasing number of resident space objects (RSO), improvement of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) capabilities is more necessary than ever. As a way to aid in this need, the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) is developing the Space Object Self-Tracker (SOS) as a proof-of-concept experimental satellite for RSO precision tracking and collision avoidance system in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Specifically, SOS will use Global Positioning System (GPS) position estimates for on-board orbit de- termination. Currently, SOS will use the Simplified General Perturbations-4 (SGP4) algorithm as its …
Development Of A Modularized Software Architecture To Enhance Ssa With Cots Telescopes, Julian P. Mccafferty
Development Of A Modularized Software Architecture To Enhance Ssa With Cots Telescopes, Julian P. Mccafferty
Theses and Dissertations
As the catalog of Earth orbiting objects continues to grow exponentially, so too does the necessity for Space Situational Awareness (SSA). Previous work at AFIT has explored augmenting the Space Surveillance Network (SSN) by demonstrating detection and tracking of orbiting objects using Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) telescopes and Air Force generated Two-Line Element Sets (TLE). This research explores the process of developing and reengineering code into a modularized, hierarchical component architecture designed for the end user while enabling developers to continue to modify the software for future applications. Three graphical user interfaces (GUI) are compiled into standalone executable programs using MATLAB for …
Military Applications Of High-Altitude Satellite Orbits In A Multi-Body Dynamical Environment Using Numerical Methods And Dynamical Systems Theory, Meredith M. Wilmer
Military Applications Of High-Altitude Satellite Orbits In A Multi-Body Dynamical Environment Using Numerical Methods And Dynamical Systems Theory, Meredith M. Wilmer
Theses and Dissertations
The circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP) is a simplified dynamical model for a satellite under the gravitational influence of both the Earth and the Moon, maintaining closer fidelity to the gravitational environment experienced by a high-altitude Earth-orbiting spacecraft than modeling in the Earth-satellite two-body problem. Resonant orbit arcs are used to determine an initial guess to input into an algorithm that computes a trajectory solution with specific design requirements and constraints. A test case uses this method to compute a lunar fly-by transfer solution requiring less than two-body transfer methods and offers an unusual pathway that adds an unpredictability element …
Vibrational Analysis Of A 12u Chassis, Daniel G. Miller
Vibrational Analysis Of A 12u Chassis, Daniel G. Miller
Theses and Dissertations
The objective of this research is to characterize how the natural frequencies of AFIT’s CubeSat design can be controlled to meet launch vehicle requirements while increasing the internal and external volume available for payload and bus components as the chassis increases in size. A reliable Finite Element (FE) model is created and validated using NASA’s General Environmental Verification Standards (GEVS) vibrational test on the 12U chassis. The validated FE model proves that current boundary conditions and geometric properties with minimized chassis wall thicknesses to maximize usable internal and external volume maintain a first frequency of the fully loaded 12U chassis …
Analysis Of A Near Real-Time Optimal Attitude Control For Satellite Simulators, Ryan M. Patrick
Analysis Of A Near Real-Time Optimal Attitude Control For Satellite Simulators, Ryan M. Patrick
Theses and Dissertations
Dynamic optimization of spacecraft attitude reorientation maneuvers can result in significant savings in attitude determination and control system size, mass, and power. Optimal control theory is generally applied using an open loop trajectory which is vulnerable to disturbances. A closed loop implementation of optimal control has been difficult to achieve due to the computational requirements needed to quickly compute solutions to the optimal control problem. This research focuses on evaluating a near real-time optimal control (RTOC) system for large angle slew maneuvers on the Air Force Institute of Technology's spacecraft simulator called SimSat. A near RTOC algorithm computes optimal control …
Pointing Analysis And Design Drivers For Low Earth Orbit Satellite Quantum Key Distribution, Jeremiah A. Specht
Pointing Analysis And Design Drivers For Low Earth Orbit Satellite Quantum Key Distribution, Jeremiah A. Specht
Theses and Dissertations
The world relies on encryption to perform critical and sensitive tasks every day. If quantum computing matures, the capability to decode keys and decrypt messages becomes possible. Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a method of distributing secure cryptographic keys which relies on the laws of quantum mechanics. Current implementations of QKD use fiber-based channels which limit the number of users and the distance between users. Satellite-based QKD using free-space channels is proposed as a feasible secure global communication solution. Since a free-space link does not use a waveguide, pointing a transmitter to receiver is required to ensure signal arrival. In …