Jose Rodrigo Cordova AlarconKyushu Institute of Technology · Laboratory of Lean Satellite Enterprises and In-Orbit Experiments (LaSEINE)
Jose Rodrigo Cordova Alarcon
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June 2013 - September 2015
September 2009 - February 2010
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Earth observation (EO) missions remain a challenging task for small satellite platforms due to their demanding requirements and space environment effects. In this study, the camera payload development and mission requirements are presented together with the ground-based testing results for a 6U CubeSat called KITSUNE, operating at low Earth orbit....
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Featured Application: The presented innovative design concept significantly impacts the development of nanosatellites such as CubeSats, particularly for mass production missions that demand high efficiency and fast delivery. Abstract: With the recent increase in CubeSats' ability to undertake complex and advanced missions , they are being considere...
Adaption of laser communication terminals to airborne and lean-satellite platforms is now a vogue, made possible due to the progressing advancements in lightweight components and compactness of onboard electro-optical transceivers and control systems. This enables highly secured and superior data-transmission rates beyond multiple Gigabit/second on...
This paper describes the assembly, integration, and test phases of the attitude determination and control system (ADCS) of the nanosatellite KITSUNE, a 6U CubeSat developed in Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, and will be launched by the beginning of 2022. The KITSUNE missions consist of the Earth observation mission with 5-m class resolution...
With the recent advances in low-thrust propulsion systems, the capability of small spacecraft and CubeSats to perform station keeping, trajectory, and orbit correction maneuvers in interplanetary missions have improved significantly. This paper describes the attitude and orbit control system of the concept lunar mission HORYU-VI, a 6U CubeSat missi...
AOBA VELOX-IV satellite is a lunar precursor mission which consists of a 2U CubeSat satellite that has been developed in collaboration between Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Its future lunar mission consists of the detection of Lunar Horizon Glow, which is related to the light scattered of th...
Interaction with the solar wind and UV/X-ray irradiation can cause the lunar dust to be electrostatically charged and mobilized all around the Moon, and light scattering by this dust cloud can be observed over the lunar terminator. This phenomenon, which has also been called the lunar horizon glow (LHG), still remains unexplained. The LHG observati...
Air-bearing tables are widely used for the verification of attitude control systems (ACS) based on reaction wheels (RW) and/or magnetic actuation. There is a demand for testing ACS based on electric propulsion systems (EPS) for lean (small) satellites. However, traditional air-bearing platforms cannot be used for such verification, since the test c...
AOBA VELOX-IV is a 2U-sized CubeSat that has been developed by the Kyushu Institute of Technology and Nanyang Technological University for the technological demonstration of a future lunar mission. Decades ago, Surveyor and Apollo programs reported light scattering observations on the horizon of the Moon; however, only a limited number of investiga...
In this paper, we analyze the mission lifetime extension capability for a CubeSat smaller than 3U in a circular lunar orbit at a 100-km altitude, assuming the utilization of a state-of-the-art low-thrust electric propulsion system such as pulsed plasma thrusters with an impulse bit (I bit ) and velocity change (ΔV) below 60 μNs and 120 m/s, respect...
This paper highlights the mission, design and development of the 2U CubeSat AOBA VELOX-IV by Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), Japan. The satellite mission is the precursor for future lunar exploration missions, addressing the challenges in attitude and orbit control of a nanosatellite i...
Dust particles are mobilized due to the repulsive forces after they collect sufficient charge to overcome the forces of gravity and contact. In addition, the required charge can be lower since an additional force can contribute to cancel the contact forces such as micro-meteorite impacts, particle collisions and the electrostatic force due to horiz...
It has been suggested that lunar dust grains can be transported by the electrostatic forces above the lunar terminator and produce the lunar horizon glow (LHG) by forward-scattering of sunlight. In addition, the recent experiments have shown that dust grains can be lofted in the vacuum chamber due to charging within micro-cavities by absorbing the...
Recent studies have shown that dust grains can be transported in the laboratory experiments due to charging within micro-cavities between the particles. Therefore, electrostatic forces acting on the dust grains can be described as the repulsive Coulomb force between charged grains and the force resulting from the surface electric field due to the p...
The lunar surface is electrically charged directly by interaction with a wide variety of plasma environments and the emission of UV and X-rays from the Sun since the Moon has neither a global magnetic field nor a dense atmosphere. Moreover, the Moon’s ambient plasma conditions vary through its orbit by passing through the magnetotail and the solar...
Recent advances in low-power propulsion systems potentiate CubeSats orbit control capabilities for the extension of their mission lifetime and increase of orbit maneuver range, in order to reach an optimal operational orbit. In this paper, we focus on the analysis of mission lifetime extension capacity of a two-unit CubeSat whose propulsion system...
The interaction with the surrounding plasma has several effects on the Moon, and one of them is suggested as electrostatic transportation of the lunar dust grains while the lunar surface is simultaneously charged by the continuous flux of the ambient plasma and the solar irradiation. The lunar surface emits photoelectrons when it is exposed to the...
Lunar surface is electrically charged by continuous flux of ambient plasma as well as exposure to solar radiation. As the Moon orbits the Earth, its plasma environment varies according to its location with respect to the Earth and the Sun. Lunar surface charging is dependent on the electric current sources such as photoemission of electrons by sola...
Aoba VELOX-IV is a two-unit CubeSat which will serve as a platform for technology validation towards a future lunar mission for the observation of lunar horizon glow, which was first spotted in 1966 and 1968 by on-board cameras on Surveyor spacecraft after the sunset from the western horizon, and Apollo astronauts reported that they had seen the ho...
The lunar horizon glow (LHG) was first spotted in 1966 and 1968 by onboard cameras on Surveyor spacecraft after the sunset from the western horizon, and Apollo astronauts reported that they had seen the horizon glow. Surveyor missions observed lunar horizon in different distances, angles and time periods (from 0.5 to 2.5 hours after local sunset)....
Due to several risks that involve travelling in highways, such as vehicle collision, natural disasters and other obstacles, the need of implementing an early warning system which detects obstacles to provide security has been growing in the last years. Artificial neural networks based systems have been successfully applied in obstacle detection thr...
RESUMEN El uso de paneles solares desplegables para vehículos espaciales es un eficiente método para incrementar la superficie de instalación de celdas solares y captar mayor energía solar. El presente artículo se enfoca en la propuesta de diseño y análisis de un mecanismo de despliegue de dos arreglos de tres paneles solares en configuración longi...
RESUMEN Actualmente se está desarrollando un simulador satelital en El Centro de Desarrollo Aeroespacial (CDA) del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), el cual formará parte de la infraestructura técnica para el diseño y validación numérico-experimental de sistemas de navegación y control para una misión específica. Este simulador consta de dos pa...
Due to mission requirements, fault detection and isolation protocols or budget restrictions, a satellite is required to use most reliable attitude determination hardware, such as magnetometers and sun sensors, in order to keep 3-axis attitude information available during its complete orbit. However, satellites experiencing sun-eclipse phases, sun s...
The extended Kalman filter (EKF) has been the workhorse of real time attitude estimation problems, for several years now. However, an essential and unsolved issue in the practical implementation of the EKF is the selection of the process and measurement noise covariance matrices. In this article, we evaluate experimentally an estimation algorithm t...
Resumen This paper addresses the attitude stabilization problem for a picosatellite. The proposed solution consists of a nonlinear controller based on a combination of two nonlinear control design techniques, back- stepping and exact tracking error dynamics passive output feedback. Nu- merical simulations show the performance of the proposed contro...
This paper depicts the global specifications and the successful results for a cost-effective system developed for training purposes in the small satellite technology field. The didactic satellite subsystems were fully designed, manufactured and tested at the Institute of Engineering UNAM. Information about intelligent subsystems for the portable di...
This paper shows the obtained results on the development of the attitude subsystem for a human resources training system at laboratory level in the satellite technology field. The educative satellite (ES) integrates several subsystems such as: structure, power, short range wireless communications, digital voice, sensors, flight computer and attitud...
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ICASST 2022 is a scientific forum for the dissemination of basic research and/or technological development projects, which allows interaction between professionals, academics and industrialists, promoting scientific-technological collaborations in the aerospace field and related areas. The program includes oral and mural (poster)
presentations, keynote lectures given by widely recognized national and international experts in their area, as well as courses/workshops. The conference will be held in a hybrid way, face-to-face/virtual.
ICASST 2022 will be held at the facilities of Centro de Desarrollo Aeroespacial, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, in the historical center of Mexico City, Mexico. The face-to-face modality will take place as long as sanitary conditions allow it.
KITSUNE (Fox in the Japanese language) is a 6U research CubeSat with multiple missions. It is being developed in Kyushu Institute of Technology, and it is a product of collaboration between the academia and the private sector. The name of KITSUNE stands for the mission objectives as building Kyutech standardized bus, Imaging Technology System, Utilization of Networking, and Electron content measurements.
The mission objectives can be listed as below:
• Earth observation with 5-m class resolution color images
• SPATIUM-2 for total electron content measurements in the ionosphere
• LORA demonstration mission
• Store and Forward mission from the sensor terminals of BIRDS (developing) countries
• Development of 2U size Kyutech standard bus system
• Demonstrate C-band communication from the main and mobile ground stations
• Downlink of low-resolution images from a secondary camera by C-band uplink commands
Aoba-VELOX-4 mission is a joint Singaporean and Japanese nanosatellite mission which will serve as technology demonstration for a future lunar mission in LEO.
