Design of a Solar Array Drive Mechanism for CubeSats: A scalable, modular and reliable SADM for CubeSats in Low-Earth orbit

CubeSats have risen in popularity since its first launch in the year 2003. The low mass, lower launch cost, lower development cost, possibility for piggyback with larger satellites and lower development time involved compared to larger satellites have opened them to be commercialised by private companies. In contrast to being used for...

A Low-speed, Low-acceleration Controller for Cost-effective Reaction-wheels: Design, Simulation & Implementation

With the requirements for CubeSats increasing, a push towards utilizing high­performance equipment has never been greater. Incorporating these equipment in an environment that is cost­, space­ and power­constrained, is challenging. Simultaneously, high­performance equipment require high pointing­accuracy and low­jitter. This thesis proposes the...

Gathering a Machine Learning dataset for object detection from a satellite-platform: On bandwidth-efficient gathering of a Machine Learning dataset for Object Detection with Faster-RCNN from a satellite-platform

In the past years, small Earth Observation (EO) satellites have become increasingly capable of taking high-resolution images at high sample rates. These images contain valuable information for different sectors, such as the agricultural and military sector. Furthermore they can contain important information about the climate and climate change....