Study of Current Femto-Satellite Approches

Abstract

The success of space technology evolves according tothe technological progression in terms of density of CMOSintegration (Complementary on - Silicon Metal) and MEMS(Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) [4]. The need of spatialservices has been a significant growth due to several factors suchas population increases, telecommunication applications, climatechanges, earth control and observation military goals, and so on.To cover this, spatial vehicle generations, specific calculators andFemto-cell systems have been developed. More recently, Ultra -Small Satellites (USS) have been proposed and differentapproaches, concerning developing of these kind of spatial systems,have been presented in literature. This miniature satellite iscapable to fly in the space and to provide different services such asimagery, measures and communications [4, 9, 10]. This paper dealswith the study of two different USS Femto-satellite architecturesthat exist in literature in order to propose a future architecture thatcan provide an optimization of power supply consumption andameliorate service communication quality.