Engelen, S. (author), van den Oever, M. (author), Mahapatra, P. (author), Sundaramoorthy, P. (author), Gill, E. (author), Meijer, R.J. (author), Verhoeven, C. (author) Nano-satellites have a cost advantage due to their low mass and usage of commercial-off-the-shelf technologies. However, the low mass also restricts the functionality of a nano-satellite's payload. Typically, this would imply instruments with very low to low resolution and accuracy, essentially ruling out applications such as remote sensing....
conference paper 2012
