Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8057247 | Aerospace Science and Technology | 2018 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Due to these properties, various groups have created PS CubeSats for Earth and Sun imaging at a low cost and weight specifically using deployable technology. A team at the Air Force Research Laboratory created a design and prototype of a mechanism that deploys a 20 cm diameter photon sieve. The United States Air Force Laboratory used a similar design to create a CubeSat-based deployable photon sieve. The team at NASA Langley Research Center has researched photon sieves for conducting an Earth-observing experiment using LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) with a higher signal-to-noise ratio benefit from the PS. This paper provides a state of the art overview on existing PS CubeSat technology with deployable structures and applications. Especially, the paper introduces PS for LIDAR applications and discusses the CubeSat-based PS challenge being worked at the NASA Langley Research Center.
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Authors
Hyun Jung Kim, Shravan Hariharan, Matthew Julian, David Macdonnell,