Year: 2020
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: While projects for the exploration of space remain ambitious and financially as well as technologically demanding projects, their benefit in understanding our planet is unrivaled [1]. On top of enabling technologies that keep drastically altering the way we communicate, navigate, or build our cities, they currently present the only means of assessing key environmental variables on a global scale [2]–[5]. Today, we witness the New Space era with promises of ever easier, faster, and cheaper space access as a major driving force for the future development to four space capabilities, specifically in Earth Observation (EO), but also in communication (COM) and navigation (NAV) applications. Since from an economic point of view, only now it became possible to achieve resolution and coverage matching the needs of many applications outside the scientific community by means of small satellite constellations[6]–[9].
Language: English
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3045805254