Small Satellite Missions for Earth Observation

Dr. sc. techn. Rainer Sandau leitet den Bereich IR-Sensorik am Institut für Weltraumsensorik und Planetenerkundung des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik (Berlin-Adlershof). Er ist seit mehr als 20 Jahren in der Weltraumforschung tätig und war u. a. Projektleiter für die Entwicklung einer digitalen Luftbildkamera.

New Earth Observation Missions.- Overview on CNES Micro Satellites Missions: In Flight, Under Development and Next.- Small Earth Observing Satellites Flying with Large Satellites in the A-Train.- INTA?Sat-1 First Earth Observation Mission.- VEN?S (Vegetation and Environment Monitoring on a New Micro Satellite).- The "Ulingo" Mid-Low Latitudes Observation (MILO) Mission.- The Italian Precursor of an Operational Hyperspectral Imaging Mission.- Earth Environment Missions.- Space System "Radiomet" for GLONASS/GPS Navigation Signal Radio Occultation Monitoring of Lower Atmosphere and Ionosphere Based on Super-Small Satellites.- The Study of Electromagnetic Parameters of Space Weather, Micro-Satellite "Chibis-M".- SEPSAT - A Nanosatellite to Observe Parameters of Space Weather.- Small Satellite Constellations for Measurements of the Near-Earth Space Environment.- Distributed Space Systems.- Satellite Formation for a Next Generation Gravimetry Mission.- EO Small Satellite Missions and Formation Flying.- Relative Trajectory Design for Bistatic SAR Missions.- Conceptual Design of the FAST-D Formation Flying Spacecraft.- Earth Observation Using Japanese/Canadian Formation Flying Nanosatellites.- A Bi/Multi-Static Microsatellite SAR Constellation.- Mission Design of the Dutch-Chinese FAST Micro-Satellite Mission.- University Satellites.- SPRITE-SAT: A University Small Satellite for Observation of High-Altitude Luminous Events.- SwissCube: The First Entirely-Built Swiss Student Satellite with an Earth Observation Payload.- German Russian Education Satellite - Mission Outline and Objectives.- University Microsatellites Equipped with an Optical System for Space Debris Monitoring.- A First-MOVE in Satellite Development at the TU-München.- Design of a SmallEducational Satellite for the Italian High School Students: The EduSAT Project.- Testing of Critical Pico-Satellite Systems on the Sounding Rocket Rexus-4.- Laboratory Facility for Simulation and Verification of Formation Motion Control Algorithms.- Asynchronous Parallel Reactive System for Intelligent Small Satellite on-Board Computing Systems.- NanoSiGN - Nanosatellite for scientific interpretation of GNSS dual-frequency signals in the low Earth orbit.- Instruments and Technologies.- The Vegetation Instrument for the PROBA-V Mission.- Software Defined LFM CW SAR Receiver for Microsatellites.- PhytoMapper - Compact Hyperspectral Wide Field of View Instrument.- Development of Spaceborne Small Hyperspectral sensor HSC-III for Micro Satellite.- Towards a Miniaturized Photon Counting Laser Altimeter and Stereoscopic Camera Instrument Suite for Microsatellites.- A Plan of Spaceborne ISAR Satellite Imaging System Aiming at Space Objects.- Increasing the Data Volume Returned from Small Satellites.- Integrated Design Based Plug-and-Play Small SAR Satellite Project.- Attitude Control Systems.- Star Sensor Development Based on the TUBSAT Experience.- Small Sensors Big Choices.- Robust and Fault Tolerant AOCS of the TET Satellite.- Implementation of the T3?PS in the Delfi-n3Xt Satellite.- A Novel AOCS Cold-Gas Micro-Propulsion System Design and Applications to Micro and Nano Satellites.- Navigation.- Navigation Needs for ESA's Earth Observation Missions.- Benefits of Galileo for Future Satellite Missions.- Differential GPS: An Enabling Technology for Formation Flying Satellites.- GPS-Based Relative Navigation in Earth Observation Missions Relying on Cooperative Satellites.