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Bolscher, Thijs (author)As the Moon reemerges as a renewed fronteer in space exploration, the Lunar Zebro project proposes to deploy a swarm of miniature rovers for efficient lunar surface exploration. One of their goals is to leverage recent advancements in deep learning and AI-accelerating hardware, in conjunction with Commercial Off-The-Shelf technologies and the...master thesis 2024
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Verlinde, Lander (author)The role of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), more commonly known as drones, in society continues to become more significant every day, both in everyday life and in military operations. The extent to which unmanned vehicles are used for both offensive as well as reconnaissance missions is at an all-time high. To expand the number of operational...student report 2024
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Goldman, Thomas (author)This thesis proposes an unsupervised Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) for solving optimal control problems with the direct method to design and optimize transfer trajectories. The network adheres analytically to boundary conditions and includes the objective fitness as regularization in its loss function. A test scenario of a planar Earth...master thesis 2023
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Verkammen, Marnix (author)With a continuously growing number of satellites in orbit, it becomes increasingly important to assess their impacts on the Earth's environment in a standardised manner. While interest in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for space missions has gained in strength in the past few years – particularly in Europe – no consensus has yet been reached on a...master thesis 2023
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Juan Marí, Héctor (author)CubeSat missions have been deployed to cislunar space and beyond, paving the way for the next significant advancement: a dedicated CubeSat mission to explore a planet near Earth. To contribute to this goal, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has developed radiation-hardened small satellite technologies, including communications, power and onboard...master thesis 2023
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Çavdar, Irmak (author)The development of reusable launch vehicles in space exploration is a significant paradigm shift in the aerospace industry. Among numerous approaches to fully reusable launchers, a flyback booster, complemented by the emerging importance of spaceplanes, stands out as a viable solution. To outweigh the drawbacks associated with the cost, a...master thesis 2023
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Mulder, Stan (author)In modern society, critical operations, such as emergency response and public safety, rely on communication systems, in this context also referred to as mission critical systems. These systems must meet strict availability requirements, since any failure can lead to severe consequences, including loss of life. Traditionally, dedicated private...master thesis 2023
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Garcia de Quevedo Suero, Beatriz (author)Apophis, an Aten-type asteroid, was considered a significant threat to Earth upon its discovery due to its potential impact with Earth in 2029. Although the collision has now been ruled out, Apophis will still perform an exceptionally close flyby of Earth that same year at a distance of 32,000 km from the surface. This event presents a unique...master thesis 2023
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Viero, Edoardo (author)The current project investigated the feasibility of aerocapture at Jupiter, and the benefits in terms of payload mass fraction that could be achieved compared to traditional orbital insertion burns. A numerical simulation model has been set up, as well as an analytical formulation of the problem. The numerical verification of the analytical...master thesis 2023
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Paliušis, Kipras (author)Laser communication provides numerous benefits over typical Radio Frequency communication, such as lower power, not occupying regulated frequency bands, possibilities for much higher data rates and resistance to jamming. Combined with satellite constellations, Laser Inter-satellite Links (LISL) can enable global connectivity. However, satellites...master thesis 2023
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van Leeuwen, Lucia (author)The world is facing environmental change, mainly due to human actions. To prevent serious environmental, economic, and societal impacts of climate change, all United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) member countries have committed to limit global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial level by 2050....master thesis 2023
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De hulsters, Kevin (author)The Kuiper belt is one of the last mostly unexplored regions in the Solar System. Exploration of the Kuiper belt can greatly increase humanity's understanding of the Solar System's formation and evolution. The use of low-thrust propulsion for Kuiper belt missions has the potential to improve the payload mass of the mission due to the high...master thesis 2023
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Andrade Castanheira, Francisco (author)The optimization of interplanetary, low-thrust trajectories is a computationally expensive aspect of preliminary mission design. To reduce the computational burden associated with it, surrogate models can be used as cheap approximations of the original fitness function. Training the surrogate models in a fully online manner can be done to...master thesis 2022
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de Vos, Adriaan (author)The upcoming IEEE 802.1CB standard aims to solve performance and reliability issues in Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN). Mission-critical systems often use these standards for communication in automotive, industrial, and avionic networks. However, researchers did not sufficiently investigate the security risks and possible mitigation solutions to...master thesis 2022
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Lee, Yin-Jen (author)The thesis addresses the organizational challenges of lacking the big pictures in an early-stage startup. First, the author joined a newborn software venture as a founding product manager and observed the dynamics in his daily practice. Then, through numerous interviews with team leaders and employees, the author analyzed the data and discovered...master thesis 2021
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Nair, Pranav (author)The advent of the 21st century has seen economies worldwide increasingly investing towards developing smart and sustainable innovations for addressing social and environmental challenges such as climate change, adapting to demographic change, public health care an well-being etc. These challenges, often referred to as 'grand challenges' are...master thesis 2021
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Bisen, Pranvi (author)Governments around the world are trying to seek economic development that is innovation-driven and inclusive. However, present-day societal and environmental challenges concerns are barriers to economic development. Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies are a powerful tool that acknowledges the importance of addressing these societal problems and...master thesis 2021
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Paricio Ezquerra, Daniel (author)Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) have attracted the attention of the scientific community in the last few years. Not only because of their importance to life on Earth but also their scientific potential and possible economic returns. This work explores the use of quasi-periodic orbits to bound the motion of NEAs close to the Earth’s vicinity for...master thesis 2021
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Carbonell Varea, Marc (author)The proposed method in this study pretends to improve the mission analysis procedure by generating a tool that allows to rapidly compute the main parameters and characteristics of a SEP transfer towards an arbitrary PHO, avoiding the application of complex numerical methods in the preliminary phases of the mission design process to improve its...master thesis 2021
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Haddou, Assia (author)The environmental impact of aviation is a well-known issue scientists all around the world are desperate to tackle. The population that can afford air travel is growing and this demand is likely to double within the next 20 years. This increasing demand comes at a hefty price: the emissions of greenhouse gases cause climate change and local air...master thesis 2021