Smaller Satellites: Bigger Business? Book

	Acknowledgements
	Foreword
	Micro/Nanosatellites - The New World	1
	Nanotechnology - Tools for the Satellite World	21
	The Promises of Nanotechnology: Will They Be kept?	33
	Canada's First Microsatellite - An Enabling Low-Cost Technology for Future Space Science and Technology Missions	43
	PROBA (Project for On-board Autonomy)	53
	SNAP-1 - Design, Construction, Launch and Early Operations Phase Results of a Modular COTS-Based Nano-satellite	69
	Report on Panel Discussion 1: New Advances of Nanotechnology	79
	Nanosatellite Science Applications	83
	Creation of an Information Society by Satellite Communications R&D: the Role of Small Satellites	93
	MYRIADE, the CNES Micro-satellite Product Line for Science and Innovation	101
	Air Quality Improvement through Micro-Technology	109
	Small Satellites in the Future Space Infrastructure	119
	Master of Space Studies 2001 Views and Visions	127
	Report on Panel Discussion 2: Micro/Nanosatellites - Benefits, Services and Applications	133
	A Trajectory to Commercial Microspace	135
	Measuring Complexity and Risk of New Small Satellite Endeavors	145
	The Future Satellite Business Is Small Satellite Business	157
	Market Growth Potential for Small Satellites: An Industry View	165
	The COCONUDS Concept: a Low-cost, Distributed Network Approach to Satellite Earth Observation	173
	A Microsatellite-based Demonstrator Mission for Agriculture and the Environment	179
	Some Problems Specific to Small Satellite Project Financing	185
	The CNES Micro-satellite MYRIADE Program as a Laboratory for Innovative Methods of Space Project Management	197
	Report on Panel Discussion 3: Market Potential - Big Business versus the Entrepreneur	205
	New Propulsive Module for Manosatellites	209
	Military Missions for Small Satellite Constellations	219
	Pegasus - Past, Present and Future	229
	Small Satellites in a Large Launch Vehicle Marketplace: NASA's Strategic Effort to Provide Space Transportation	239
	Vega: the European Initiative for Launching Small Satellites	249
	Overview of the Russian Launch Possibilities for Small Satellites	257
	Report on Panel Discussion 4: Launch and Support Services for Micro/Nanosatellites	267
	The Small Satellite Business: Contributions to, and from, Developing Countries	269
	SUNSAT to SunSpace: Meeting the Needs of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation	279
	From Big LEO Satellite Ventures to Smaller Satellite Systems: Lessons to be Learnt in an Apparently Evanescent Market	289
	Small Satellites in Developing Countries - An Integral Part of National Development	299
	Prospects for Involvement in Space Activities in Developing Countries via Small Satellites	307
	A Microspacecraft Platform for Missions in Earth Orbit and beyond LEO	315
	The Brazilian Microsatellite Development Strategy: an Assessment of the Scientific Applications Satellite (SACI) Programme	321
	Micro/Nanosatellites as an Enabler of the New Information World	329
	Report on Panel Discussion 5: Broader Impacts and Implications	337
	Report on Panel Discussion 6, Part 1: Debate: The Business Case for Small Satellites has yet to be made	341
	Report on Panel Discussion 6, Part 2: Concluding Panel Discussion: Highlights and Lessons Learned in all Sessions	347
	Mission Model Consideration using NEC Advanced Small Satellite Bus	351
	SCALE: A Scaleable Wire Boom System	355
	A Modular Design Concept For Small Satellites	357
	NESS: Using a Microsatellite to Search for and Track Satellites and Asteroids	359
	Integrating Robustness Into ST-5 Nano-Satellite Development For Inexpensive Space Missions	361
	Small Spacecraft for Space Weather Upstream Monitoring	369
	Nano Satellite Propulsion using FEEP Thrusters	373
	Angara and the Market for Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) Satellites	377
	The WEOS (Whale Ecology Observation Satellite) System and University Education	379
	An Overview of the Technology Satellite of the 21st Century (TechSat 21) Program	381
	Vision of Fugure Space Systems Based on Recent MEMS and Nano-technology Developments	383
	ROCKOT - a Competitive and Reliable Launch Vehicle for Small Satellite	387
	Advanced Micro/Nanosatellite Attitude Control Systems (ACS)	389
	Small Satellite Development and Future Vision of NASDA	393
	The TAKO (Target Collaborativize) Flyer: a New Concept for Future Satellite Servicing	397
	Status of Micro- / Nano-Satellites in NASDA	401
	Micro Spectrometer and MEMS for Space	403
	Air Pollution Monitoring Using a Constellation of Small Satellites	407
	Micro/Nano-Technologies for High Performance Spacecraft	411
	JetGun Sat "TOPPU"	413
	Titech CanSat Project 2000: Report of Sub-orbital Flight and Balloon Experiment	417
	Atmospheric Climate Experiment ACE a Constellation of Microsats for Atmospheric Sounding	419
	Leonid Meteor Observer in LEO: a University Microsatellite to Observe the 2002 Leonid from Space	423
	Appendix	427
	The International Space University's Small Satellite Interdisciplinary Survey (ISIS)	429