Development of a pointing, acquisition, and tracking system for a CubeSat optical communication module

Miniaturized satellites such as CubeSats continue to improve their capabilities to enable missions that can produce significant amounts of data. For most CubeSat missions, data must be downlinked during short low-earth orbit ground station passes, a task currently performed using traditional radio s...

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Main Authors: Nguyen, Tam T, Riesing, Kathleen Michelle, Kingsbury, Ryan W, Cahoy, Kerri
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107999
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5601-0978
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6166-8157
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4432
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7791-5124

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