{"title":"Liability for GNSS signals and services","authors":"Nazli Can","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002958","url":null,"abstract":"According to European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency's 2017 GNSS Market Report 5.8 billion devices are in use in 2017. This number is being expected to increase to 8 billion by 2020. It is for sure that the GNSS has become an essential element of major technological devices and technology developments including but not limited to Internet of Things (GNSS provides localisation and timing information to the interconnected and remotely controlled network infrastructures), Big Data (The proliferation of GNSS devices is boosting the quantity of location and timing data), mobile health (GNSS is used for disability assistance, preventive medicine and emergency) and Smart Cities (GNSS is one of the key technologies used within the infrastructure desing and mobility of smart cities) [1]. Therefore it is obvious that should there be degradation or loss of GNSS signals there might be serious consequences. This article presents the overview of the discussions on the liability for the damages caused by the failure of the GNSS signals and services.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133805437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wide-area spaceborne maritime surveillance system","authors":"U. Leloglu, E. Tunali","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002930","url":null,"abstract":"Wide Area Aerial Surveillance (WAAS) systems are gaining popularity nowadays. The main function of WAAS systems is to obtain high resolution images of a large area and create knowledge to facilitate situational awareness. To accomplish that, these systems circling over city-size regions, typically at an altitude of 10.000 feet or higher, obtain images at GSDs of 20–50 cm at around 1–2 fps. Instead of transferring huge amount of raw data, it is processed onboard and extracted data is transferred. In this paper, the possibility of applying the same approach to space for the purpose of maritime surveillance is investigated. The ultimate purpose of Wide-Area Spaceborne Maritime Surveillance System (WASMAS) is to create a near real time map of ship movements all over the world. Following a requirement analysis and basic properties of the optical payload, concept of operations are introduced. An orbital analysis of the constellation is given and possibility of on-board real-time image analysis is discussed. Preliminary results are promising and shows that the system can be realized in large cubesat platforms. However, further research is required.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122373265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contribution of UNISEC-global to capacity building in space engineering","authors":"Mohammed Khalil Ibrahim, R. Kawashima, A. Aslan","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002949","url":null,"abstract":"Capacity building in space engineering is vital process to space development at both the national and international levels. Long term sustainability is also vital to the future space activities. This is a key theme of the discussions in global space forums such as UNCOPUOS. The issue of increasing density of debris in orbit is very relevant to nano-satellite activities at university level. The University Space Engineering Consortium (UNISEC) in Japan was established to support and promote practical space project development activities, such as nano-satellites and hybrid rockets at university level. The UNISEC concept in Japan is to facilitate activities by providing a platform where members can show and exchange the progress and lessons learned from each other. Sharing UNISEC experience and know-how with non-space faring nations was one of the main motivation to establish the UNISEC-Global in 2013 as well as fostering the international cooperation. This present paper presents the concept of UNISEC, establishment of UNISEC-Global and its contribution to the long term space sustainability and development.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"9 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121003756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collision avoidance dynamics for optimal impulsive collision avoidance maneuvers","authors":"R. Abay","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002935","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a method to calculate the optimal impulsive maneuver to avoid the collisions using Simplified General Perturbation 4 (SGP4) and Two Line Element (TLE). It also presents a rigorous analysis of the method to investigate the relative dynamics of the two colliding space objects assuming the encounter is instantaneous. Different collision geometries are used for test cases. For all collision geometries, the relative velocity and the relative miss distance vectors are parallel, which is the worst case because the encounter occurs along the direction of the relative velocity vector. Test cases are satellites with distinctive orbital characteristics that are obtained from the official Spacetrack catalog. A precise numerical orbit propagator is used both to create ephemerides for test cases and to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed method. This work is significant because this is the first comprehensive investigation of the relative dynamics of the optimal impulsive collision avoidance maneuvers for satellites. Moreover, the proposed method isn't compute-intensive because it is a semi-numerical method.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126782067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amin Baghalian, Shervin Tashakori, Jason R. Soto, V. Senyurek, I. Tansel, Balemir Uragun
{"title":"Internal defect detection in hollow cylindrical structures using the Surface Response to Excitation (SuRE) Method","authors":"Amin Baghalian, Shervin Tashakori, Jason R. Soto, V. Senyurek, I. Tansel, Balemir Uragun","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002955","url":null,"abstract":"Active structural health monitoring methods are becoming increasingly popular for defect detection in hollow cylindrical structures utilized in aerospace applications. Electro mechanical impedance (EMI) based methods are commonly used to study the health of hollow cylinders in broad frequency ranges. However, the EMI analyzers are bulky and costly. In addition, EMI based methods require high quantity of sensors for monitoring a large area. The Surface Response to Excitation (SuRE) method was developed to eliminate the need for EMI analyzers in broad frequency range inspections and to decrease the number of sensors in monitoring of large structures. In this study, the performance of the SuRE method in detection of internal defects is evaluated theoretically and experimentally. Different internal damages were created in an aluminum pipe specimen. The data collected from four bonded piezoelectric elements were used for damage detection and quantification. The test results showed the high sensitivity and robustness of the SuRE method in internal damage detection.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115273339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In-flight ground sampling distance estimation of Alsat-1 imager","authors":"K. Benahmed, A. Rachedi, I. Taleb","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002967","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the in-flight ground sampling distance (GSD) estimation of the Alsat-1 Slim-6 imager. There are several methods to evaluate the imager GSD, based on natural and/or artificial targets (geometric shapes). We used an image from a higher resolution satellite which was considered as a reference image. This method is based on the error minimization between the two images: Alsat-1 and the reference image. The results showed a stability of the estimated GSD and a consistency with the expected performance of the imager.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114426571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Asian, M. Toklu, B. Karabulut, C. Yanm, M. Şimşek, T. B. Karyot, N. Gallah, O. Ben Bahri, A. Chaouch, N. Lazreg, N. Habbachi, M. Mansour, C. Hamrouni, N. Tahri, A. Alimi, K. Besbes
{"title":"Water quality management using nanosatellites","authors":"A. Asian, M. Toklu, B. Karabulut, C. Yanm, M. Şimşek, T. B. Karyot, N. Gallah, O. Ben Bahri, A. Chaouch, N. Lazreg, N. Habbachi, M. Mansour, C. Hamrouni, N. Tahri, A. Alimi, K. Besbes","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002951","url":null,"abstract":"Within the context of bilateral cooperation between Turkey and Tunisia, a Project called “Development of Intelligent Control Modules for Nano Satellites” was initiated in May 2015. Due to political changes in both countries the Project could effectively start on May 2016. The project aims at developing nanosatellite based water quality monitoring within the MENA region. Turkish side consists of researchers from Istanbul Technical University, while Tunisian team has two intuitions, University Monastir of and University of Sfax. Project involves 8 team visits, 4 in each country. In those meetings, teams agreed on a mission and related payload. The mission is monitoring dam water parameters (levels, salinity, pollution, temperature, etc.) in Tunisia using ground sensor data. The Tunisian team is responsible of development of ground sensor system and contributing to the control of the nanosatellite. Space segment main duty is store and forward. Therefore a 2U CubeSat is found appropriate. Currently ground sensors are foreseen to transmit data in VHF band. However based on recent developments, a transmission at 920 MHz is also of interest.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"341 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115171217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Noman, Syed M. Zulqamain, M. R. Mughal, Anwar Ali, L. Reyneri
{"title":"Component selection for magnetic attitude subsystem of PNSS-1 small satellite","authors":"M. Noman, Syed M. Zulqamain, M. R. Mughal, Anwar Ali, L. Reyneri","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002959","url":null,"abstract":"The research on the small satellites is on the rise since last two decades thanks to the use of low cost design solutions which have significantly reduced the cost of the space missions. The attitude determination and control subsystem (ADCS) is a core subsystem in order to stabilize and orient their position in space. Magnetometers and magnetic torque actuators are an integral part of ADCS subsystem and their design needs the proper component selection. In this research, we have presented the selection of components for the design of magnetic attitude subsystem of Pakistan National Student Satellite-1 (PNSS-1) on the basis of certain design parameters.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131816043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ismail Arslan, Kamil Arslankoz, A. Telli, B. Karabulut, A. Aslan
{"title":"On-board software for HAVELSAT cubesat","authors":"Ismail Arslan, Kamil Arslankoz, A. Telli, B. Karabulut, A. Aslan","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002976","url":null,"abstract":"HAWELSAT is a 2U CubeSat developed by HAVELSAN and Istanbul Technical University (ITU) as a part of QB50 Project [1] in Turkey. During its mission, HAVELSAT will collect electron density information in its orbit and transfer this data to the ground station (GS). In QB50 program, the aim is to use all collected e-density data from all satellites to get better thermosphere models. In this article, the developed on-board software (SW) and the development phases will be briefly explained. Moreover, a summary of difficulties faced during these phases and also lessons learnt are summarized.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129083235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing microwave absorber shape by using optimization","authors":"I. Catalkaya, S. Kent","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8003004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8003004","url":null,"abstract":"Microwave absorbers are used inside of anechoic chamber along its wall, ceiling and floor to perform EMC / EMI measurements. Anechoic chambers are also used to perform measurements for EMC / EMI requirements of spacecraft on-orbit. Wedge and pyramidal type absorbers are commonly used type of absorbers to cover chamber walls. Shape of them is one of major factor to absorb energy of incident EM wave. New absorber shapes can help to improve absorption performance of absorbers and provide accuracy of measurements. In this study, an alternative microwave absorber shape is obtained by using optimization methods. Reflection characteristic of new designed absorber is presented. Absorber is analyzed by using Periodic Moment Method (PMM). 2–10 GHz frequency band is considered for reflection value calculations of absorber. TM mode normal incidence case electromagnetic waves are employed for the calculations within the 2–10 GHz frequency band. Bistatic pattern characteristics of absorber are presented at 2, 4, and 6 GHz. Using optimization methods to obtain optimized power function shaped absorber is an important contribution of the study.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117292733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}