CubeSat Communications: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

TARGET GROUP: CUBESAT COMMUNICATIONS

OBJECTIVES

·        To provide a complementary connectivity solution to the pervasive Internet of Things (IoT) networks, leading to a globally connected cyberphysical system.

·        To identify several future research directions for CubeSat communications, including Internet of space things, low-power long-range networks, and machine learning for CubeSat resource allocation.

SUMMARY

The race for commercial dominance of the space industry is igniting, leading to an active new space economy. According to a report by Morgan Stanley, the expected revenue from the space industry will reach $22 billion by 2024 and $41 billion by 2029 [1]. Space businesses are growing especially fast with the development of small satellites because of the latter’s relatively low deployment cost. Additionally, these small satellites are deployed in low earth orbit (LEO), thus providing lowlatency communications [2]. With the development of these small satellites, space TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION is becoming cheaper, closer, and smaller, reviving the space industry by offering various new applications such as space observation, earth observation, and telecommunications. These provocative applications for small satellites are impelling top-tier companies like Google, SpaceX, OneWeb, and Facebook to investigate the use of these low-cost satellites, to provide earth monitoring, disaster prevention, and connectivity to Internet of things (IoT) devices in remote areas instead of using the conventional LEO satellites.

REFERENCE: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.09501.pdf