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Wideband Cavity-Backed CubeSat Antenna in S band

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Impact of ICRF on the scrape-off layer and on plasma wall interactions: From present experiments to fusion reactor

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Yu Lin, Julio Rodriguez, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Liang Yao, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Bernhard Sieglin

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Elsevier2019

The JET upgraded toroidal Alfven Eigenmode Diagnostic System

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Guidance, Navigation and Control for Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking of Nano-Satellites

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Is it possible to dock CubeSats in Low Earth Orbit? Challenges are associated with the level of miniaturisation: the docking accuracy is driven by the docking mechanism dimensions. The achievable docking performance with the Guidance, Navigation and Contro ...

EPFL2018

Parameter Estimation with GNSS-Reflectometry and GNSS Synthetic Aperture Techniques

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Aside from intentional interference, multipath is the most significant error source for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers in many operational scenarios. In this thesis, we study the multipath estimation from two different perspectives: t ...

EPFL2018

ICRH antenna &ITS&IT-matrix measurements and plasma coupling characterisation at JET

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Guidance, Navigation and Control for Autonomous Cooperative Docking of CubeSats

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Robust Software Development for University-Built Satellites

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GPS Based Navigation Performance Analysis within and beyond the Space Service Volume for Different Transmitters’ Antenna Patterns

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Endrit Shehaj, Paul David Blunt

In recent years, global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-based navigation in high earth orbits (HEOs) has become a field of research interest since it can increase the spacecraft’s autonomy, thereby reducing the operating costs. However, the GNSS availab ...

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