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Sarris, Theodore E. (author), Tourgaidis, Stelios (author), Pirnaris, Panagiotis (author), Baloukidis, Dimitris (author), Papadakis, Konstantinos (author), Doornbos, Eelco (author), Siemes, C. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), van den IJssel, J.A.A. (author)Daedalus MASE (Mission Assessment through Simulation Exercise) is an open-source package of scientific analysis tools aimed at research in the Lower Thermosphere-Ionosphere (LTI). It was created with the purpose to assess the performance and demonstrate closure of the mission objectives of Daedalus, a mission concept targeting to perform in...journal article 2023
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De Breuker, R. (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Bisagni, C. (author), Boneschansker, I. (author), Melkert, J.A. (author), Snellen, M. (author), Veldhuis, L.L.M. (author), Verdegaal, F.M. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), Werij, H.G.C. (author)The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering is one of eight faculties at Delft University of Technology. It is one of the most comprehensive academic and innovation communities worldwide focusing on aerospace engineering. Its 120 professors and 70 researchers are mentoring and teaching around 2,800 BSc/MSc students and more than 350 PhD candidates...journal article 2022
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Siemes, C. (author), Maddox, Stephen (author), Carraz, Olivier (author), Cross, Trevor (author), George, Steven (author), van den IJssel, J.A.A. (author), Kiss-Toth, Marton (author), Pastena, Massimiliano (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)Cold Atom technology has undergone rapid development in recent years and has been demonstrated in space in the form of cold atom scientific experiments and technology demonstrators, but has so far not been used as the fundamental sensor technology in a science mission. The European Space Agency therefore funded a 7-month project to define the...journal article 2022
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Carzana, L. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), Heiligers, M.J. (author)Solar sailing is a propellantless propulsion method that takes advantage of solar<br/>radiation pressure to generate thrust. The last decades have seen the launch of<br/>several solar-sail missions to demonstrate the technology’s potential for space<br/>exploration and exploitation. Even more missions are scheduled for launch in<br/>the near...conference paper 2022
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Altiparmaki, O. (author), Kleinherenbrink, M. (author), Naeije, M.C. (author), Slobbe, D.C. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)This article shows the first spectral analysis of fully-focused Synthetic Aperture Radar (FFSAR) altimetry data with the objective of studying backscatter modulations caused by swells. Swell waves distort the backscatter in altimetry radargrams by means of velocity and range bunching. These swell signatures are visible in the tail of the...journal article 2022
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Touboul, Pierre (author), Métris, Gilles (author), Rodrigues, Manuel (author), Bergé, Joel (author), Robert, Alain (author), Baghi, Quentin (author), André, Yves (author), Bedouet, Judicael (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)The space mission MICROSCOPE dedicated to the test of the equivalence principle (EP) operated from April 25, 2016 until the deactivation of the satellite on October 16, 2018. In this analysis we compare the free-fall accelerations (a <sub>A</sub> and a <sub>B</sub>) of two test masses in terms of the Eötvös parameter η ( A,B ) = 2 a A − a B a...journal article 2022
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Touboul, Pierre (author), Métris, Gilles (author), Rodrigues, Manuel (author), Bergé, Joel (author), Robert, Alain (author), Baghi, Quentin (author), André, Yves (author), Bedouet, Judicaël (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)The MICROSCOPE mission was designed to test the weak equivalence principle (WEP), stating the equality between the inertial and the gravitational masses, with a precision of 10-15 in terms of the Eötvös ratio η. Its experimental test consisted of comparing the accelerations undergone by two collocated test masses of different compositions as...journal article 2022
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Simons, W.J.F. (author), Broerse, D.B.T. (author), Kleptsova, O.S. (author), Nijholt, N. (author), Pietrzak, J.D. (author), Naeije, M.C. (author), Lhermitte, S.L.M. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), Riva, R.E.M. (author)A devastating tsunami struck Palu Bay in the wake of the 28 September 2018 M<sub>w</sub> = 7.5 Palu earthquake (Sulawesi, Indonesia). With a predominantly strike-slip mechanism, the question remains whether this unexpected tsunami was generated by the earthquake itself, or rather by earthquake-induced landslides. In this study we examine the...journal article 2022
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Fayolle, M. (author), Dirkx, D. (author), Lainey, V. (author), Gurvits, L. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)When reconstructing natural satellites' ephemerides from space missions' tracking data, the dynamics of the spacecraft and natural bodies are often solved for separately, in a decoupled manner. Alternatively, the ephemeris generation and spacecraft orbit determination can be performed concurrently. This method directly maps the available data...journal article 2022
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Gurvits, L. (author), Falcke, Heino (author), Frey, Sándor (author), Fromm, Christian M. (author), García-Miró, Cristina (author), Janssen, Michael (author), Masania, K. (author), Rajan, R.T. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)Ultra-high angular resolution in astronomy has always been an important vehicle for making fundamental discoveries. Recent results in direct imaging of the vicinity of the supermassive black hole in the nucleus of the radio galaxy M87 by the millimeter VLBI system Event Horizon Telescope and various pioneering results of the Space VLBI...journal article 2022
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Carzana, L. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), Heiligers, M.J. (author)Solar sailing is a spacecraft propulsion method relying solely on solar radiation pressure to provide thrust and is therefore propellantless by nature. Although it represents a practical and promising propulsion system particularly suited for heliocentric flight regimes, the majority of sailcraft missions flown to date have remained Earth...journal article 2022
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Fernández, Marc (author), Peter, Heike (author), Arnold, Daniel (author), Duan, Bingbing (author), Simons, W.J.F. (author), Wermuth, Martin (author), Hackel, S.F.G. (author), Fernández, Jaime (author), Jäggi, Adrian (author), Hugentobler, Urs (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), Féménias, Pierre (author)Copernicus Sentinel–1 is a C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite mission within the European Copernicus Programme. The two satellites Sentinel-1A and -1B were launched in April 2014 and 2016, respectively. The Copernicus POD (Precise Orbit Determination) Service is responsible for the determination of orbital and auxiliary products...journal article 2022
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Gas-surface interactions modelling influence on satellite aerodynamics and thermosphere mass densityMarch, G. (author), van den IJssel, J.A.A. (author), Siemes, C. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), Doornbos, Eelco N. (author), Pilinski, Marcin (author)The satellite acceleration data from the CHAMP, GRACE, GOCE, and Swarm missions provide detailed information on the thermosphere density over the last two decades. Recent work on reducing errors in modelling the spacecraft geometry has greatly reduced scale differences between the thermosphere data sets from these missions. However, residual...journal article 2021
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Carzana, L. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), Heiligers, M.J. (author)Solar sailing is a spacecraft propulsion method relying solely on solar radiation pressure to provide thrust and is therefore propellantless by nature. Although it represents a practical and promising propulsion system particularly suited for heliocentric flight regimes, near-term sailcraft missions will remain Earth-bound due to the current...conference paper 2021
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Fayolle-Chambe, M.S. (author), Dirkx, D. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), Lainey, V. (author)Context. The apparent close encounters of two satellites in the plane of the sky, called mutual approximations, have been suggested as a different type of astrometric observation to refine the moons' ephemerides. The main observables are then the central instants of the close encounters, which have the advantage of being free of any scaling...journal article 2021
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Palmroth, Minna (author), Grandin, Maxime (author), Sarris, Theodoros (author), Doornbos, Eelco (author), Tourgaidis, Stelios (author), March, G. (author), Siemes, C. (author), van den IJssel, J.A.A. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)<p>The lower-Thermosphere-ionosphere (LTI) system consists of the upper atmosphere and the lower part of the ionosphere and as such comprises a complex system coupled to both the atmosphere below and space above. The atmospheric part of the LTI is dominated by laws of continuum fluid dynamics and chemistry, while the ionosphere is a plasma...journal article 2021
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Liu, Y. (author), Noomen, R. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)We develop a Gravity Assist Mapping to quantify the effects of a flyby in a two-dimensional circular restricted three-body situation based on Gaussian Process Regression (GPR). This work is inspired by the Keplerian Map and Flyby Map. The flyby is allowed to occur anywhere above 300 km altitude at the Earth in the system of Sun-(Earth+Moon)...journal article 2021
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Liu, Y. (author), Noomen, R. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)Inspired by the Keplerian Map and the Flyby Map, a Gravity Assist Mapping using Gaussian Process Regression for the fully spatial Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem is developed. A mapping function for quantifying the flyby effects over one orbital period is defined. The Gaussian Process Regression model is established by proper mean and...journal article 2021
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Gurvits, L. (author), Paragi, Zsolt (author), Amils, Ricardo I. (author), van Bemmel, Ilse (author), Casasola, Viviana (author), Conway, John (author), Masania, K. (author), Rajan, R.T. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)Ultra-high angular resolution in astronomy has always been an important vehicle for making fundamental discoveries. Recent results in direct imaging of the vicinity of the super-massive black hole in the nucleus of the radio galaxy M87 by the millimeter VLBI system Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and various pioneering results of the Space VLBI...conference paper 2021