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Tesi etd-10142014-102801


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Autore
PAPA, ANDREA
URN
etd-10142014-102801
Titolo
A versatile constellation of microsatellites with electric propulsion for Earth Observation: mission analysis and platform design
Dipartimento
INGEGNERIA CIVILE E INDUSTRIALE
Corso di studi
INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE
Relatori
correlatore Gregucci, Stefan
relatore Prof. Marcuccio, Salvo
Parole chiave
  • Constellation
  • microsatellites
  • Earth Observation
  • Electric Propulsion
Data inizio appello
25/11/2014
Consultabilità
Completa
Riassunto
The increasing interest towards the exploitation of the observations from the space to support daily human activities devoted to land and vegetation management is the starting point for the creation of Earth Observation missions.
Actual state-of-art technology and future perspectives allow to think to design a very small platform able to be equipped with an instrument devoted to satisfy requirements imposed by all possible involved users.
This thesis describes the mission analysis related to a constellation of microsatellites which seems an optimum solution to achieve with limited costs the very high performance demanded by applications for natural resources management, like for example agriculture or disasters monitoring.
The presence of a micro-electric propulsion device on-board the platform like the ALTA HT100D is studied. This unique feature of the mission provides an excellent degree of versatility, ensuring a further reduction of costs and increase of performance.
Different mission scenarios are proposed, and a preliminary design of the platform is provided.
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