Overview
Publications¶
Conference Papers¶
| Title | Authors | Conference | Date |
| 2014 | |||
| OPS-SAT: A ESA nanosatellite for accelerating innovation in satellite control | D.Evans, M. Merri | SpaceOps Conference 2014 | Aug 2014 |
| 2015 | |||
| Game-changing Radio Communication Architecture for Cube/nano Satellites | M.A. Fernandez, G. Guillois, Y. Richard, J-L. Issler, P. Lafabrie, A. Gaboriaud, D. Evans, R. Walker, O. Koudelka, P. Romano, K.T. Hansen, D. Gerhardt |
Small Satellite Conference 2015 | Aug 2015 |
| 2016 | |||
| OPS-SAT Experiments’ Software Management with the NanoSat MO Framework | C. Coelho, M. Merri, O.Koudelka, M.Sarkarati | AIAA SPACE 2016 | Sept 2016 |
| OPS-SAT: Designing a Mission from the Ground Upwards | D. Evans, J. L. Feiteirinha, J. Nörtemann | SpaceOps Conference 2016 | May 2016 |
| OPS-SAT: Operational Concept for ESA’S First Mission Dedicated to Operational Technology | D. Evans, A. Lange | ||
| OPS-SAT: FDIR Design on a Mission that Expects Bugs - and Lots of Them | D. Evans, M. Ortega, R. Zeif, T. Sergert | ||
| CCSDS Mission Operations directory service: Paving the road for a new World of services | C. Coelho, S. Cooper, O. Koudelka, M. Sarkarati, M. Merri | 4S Symposium 2016 | May 2016 |
| 2017 | |||
| NanoSat MO framework: When OBSW turns into apps | C. Coelho, O. Koudelka, M. Merri | IEEE Aerospace Conference 2017 | Mar 2017 |
| NanoSat MO Framework: Drill down your nanosatellite’s platform using CCSDS Mission Operations services | C. Coelho, S. Cooper, M. Merri, M. Sarkarati, O. Koudelka | 68th International Astronautical Congress | Sep 2017 |
| 2018 | |||
| The ESA OPS-SAT Mission: Don't just say there is a better way, fly it and prove it | D. Evans, A. Donati | SpaceOps Conference 2018 | Jun 2018 |
| The redundancy and fail-safe concept of the OPS-SAT payload processing platform | R.Zeif, M. Henkel, A. Hörmer, M. Kubicka, M. Wenger, O. Koudelka | 69 th International Astronautical Congress | Oct 2018 |
| 2019 | |||
| On Board autonomous Operations for OPS-SAT | S. Fratini, J. Gorfer, N. Policella, A. Donati | 15th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA) 2019 | May 2019 |
| ESOC Ground Station Architecture for OPS-SAT | A. Løfaldli, H. Ernst, F. Pelorossi, D. Evans, M. Flentge and G. Smolinski | 8th International Workshop on Tracking, Telemetry and Command Systems for Space Applications (TTC) 2019 | Sep 2019 |
| 2020 | |||
| From OPS-SAT to PRETTY Mission: A Second Generation Software Defined Radio Transceiver for Passive Reflectometry | R. Zeif, A. Hörmer, M. Kubicka, M. Henkel and O. Koudelka | International Conference on Broadband Communications for Next Generation Networks and Multimedia Applications (CoBCom) 2020 | Jul 2020 |
| An FPGA-Based Hybrid Neural Network Accelerator for Embedded Satellite Image Classification | E. Lemaire, M. Moretti, L. Daniel, B. Miramond, P. Millet, F. Feresin, S. Bilavarn | 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) | Sep 2020 |
| 2021 | |||
| ESA’s OPS-SAT Mission: Powered by GNU Radio | T. Mladenov, B. Fischer, D. Evans | GNU Radio Conference 2020 (Vol 5 No 1) | Sep 2021 |
| OPS-SAT in orbit - a technical rundown of this open experimentation platform | D. Marszk, D. Evans, M. Henkel, O. Koudelka, M. Kubicka, M. Merri, T. Mladenov, K. Otto, M. Sarkarati | Data Systems in Aerospace (DASIA) Conference | Sep 2021 |
| Machine Learning in Earth Observation Operations: A review | P. Miralles, A. F. Scannapieco, N. Jagadam, P. Baranwal, B. Faldu, R. Abhang, S- Bhatia, S. Bonnart, I. Bhatnagar, B. Batul, P.Prasad, H. Ortega-González, H. Joseph, H. More, S. Morchedi, A. K. Panda, M. Zaccaria Di Fraia, D. Wischert, D. Stepanova | 72 nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) | Oct 2021 |
| Agile Development and Rapid Prototyping in a Flying Mission with Open Source Software Reuse On-Board the OPS-SAT Spacecraft | G. Labrèche, D. Evans, D. Marszk, T. Mladenov, V. Shiradhonker, V. Zelenevskiy | AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum | Dec 2021 |
| Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Planning and Scheduling of Image Acquisition with the SmartCam App On-Board the OPS-SAT Spacecraft | G. Labrèche, D. Evans, D. Marszk, T. Mladenov, V. Shiradhonker, V. Zelenevskiy | ||
| 2022 | |||
| TruSat: Building Cyber Trust in Collaborative Spacecraft Networks | D. Koisser, D. Fischer, M. Wallum, A. Sadeghi | 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AeroConf 2022) | Mar 2022 |
| Refined Astrometry on Board a CubeSat | B. Segret, Y. Diaw and V. Lainey | ||
| OPS-SAT Spacecraft Autonomy with TensorFlow Lite, Unsupervised Learning, and Online Machine Learning | G. Labrèche, D. Evans, D. Marszk, T. Mladenov, V. Shiradhonker, T. Soto, V. Zelenevskiy | ||
| ORBiDANSe: Orbital Big Datacube Analytics Service | P. Baumann, D. Misev | EGU General Assembly | May 2022 |
| On-Board images to specify and commission the ADCS | B. Segret, S. Bammens, S. Bras, D. Marszk, V. Shiradhonkar, V. Zelenevskiy, D. Evans | The 4S Symposium 2020 | May 2020 |
| SPLEAT: SPiking Low-power Event-based ArchiTecture for in-orbit processing of satellite imagery | N. Abderrahmane, B. Miramond, E. Kervennic, A. Girard | 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) | Jul 2022 |
| Validated Numerics: Algorithms and Practical Applications in Aerospace | Mioara Joldes | International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| V'CER: Efficient Certificate Validation in Constrained Networks | D. Koisser, P. Jauernig, G. Tsudik, A. Sadeghi | USENIX Security 2022 | Aug 2022 |
| Machine Learning Image Processing Algorithms Onboard OPS-SAT | S. Kacker, A. Meredith, K. Cahoy, G. Labrèche | 36th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellite (SmallSat 2022) | Aug 2022 |
| MO Services and CFDP in Action on OPS-SAT | D. Marszk, D. Evans, T. Mladenov, G. Labrèche, V. Zelenevskiy, V. Shiradhonkar | ||
| OPS-SAT LEOP and Commissioning: Running a Nanosatellite Project in a Space Agency Contex | D. Evans, G. Labrèche, T. Mladenov, D. Marszk, V.Zelenevskiy, V. Shiradhonkar | ||
| Implementing the New CCSDS Housekeeping Data Compression Standard 124.0-B-1 (based on POCKET+) on OPS-SAT | D. Evans, G. Labrèche, D. Marszk, S. Bammens, M. Hernández-Cabronero, V. Zelenevskiy, V. Shiradhonkar, M.Starcik | ||
| Machine Learning Image Processing Algorithms onboard OPS-SAT | S. Kacker, A. Meredith, K. Cahoy, G. Labrèche | ||
| On-board Images to Characterize a CubeSat's ADCS | B. Segret, S. Bammens, S. Bras, D. Marszk, V. Shiradhonkar, V. Zelenevskiy, D. Evans | ||
| ASTERIA In-Orbit Testing on OPSSAT: An On-Board Autonomous Orbit Control Solution Including Collision Risks Avoidance | F. Toussaint, J. Thomassin, S. Laurens | ||
| Augmenting Digital Signal Processing with Machine Learning techniques using the Software Defined Radio on the OPS-SAT Space Lab | T: Mladenov, G: Labèche, T: Syndercombe, D: Evans | 73rd International Astronautical Congress | Sep 2022 |
| Deployment of a cloud segmentation neural network on embedded hardware targets and benchmark of the different deployment toolchains | E. Kervennic, L. Thomas, M. Benguigui, F. Férésin, Y. Bobichon | 8th International Workshop OBPDC (On-board Payload Data Compression) 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| Image and radio-frequency data compression for OPS-SAT using FAPEC | J. Portell, A. Martí, R. Iudica, D.Evans, Vladimir Zelenevskiy | ||
| Toward On-Board Detection of Anomalous Events from OPS-SAT-Telemetry Using Deep Learning | J. Nalepa, J. Andrzejewski, B. Ruszczak, K. Kotowski, A. Musiał, D.Evans, V. Zelenevskiy, S. Bammens, R.Laurinovics | ||
| Enabling Autonomy with a Deep Learning Framework for Planetary Exploration | A. J. Macdonald, A. Budhkar, B. Bonham-Carter, E. Smal, M. Cross | Accelerating Humanity's Off World Future (ASCEND) 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Testing SpaceFibre in Orbit: the OPS-SAT and NORBY Technology Demonstrators | M. Farras, S. Parkes, A. Ferrer, A. Gonzalez | 9th International SpaceWire and SpaceFibre Conference | Oct 2022 |
| 2023 | |||
| Evaluating the new CCSDS mission planning and scheduling: how to TGO and EnMAP could have benefitted from an interoperability standard for the exchange of mission planning and scheduling information. | P. van der Plas, G. Buenadicha, D. Frew, M.T. Wörle, C. Lenzen, M. Duhaze, L. Dubreil, V. Zelenevskiy | SpaceOps - 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| Validation and Demonstration of Disruption Tolerant Networking Technologies in ESA Ground Segment | Camillo Malnati, Felix Flentge | SpaceOps - 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| SaaSyML: Software as a Service for Machine Learning On-board the OPS-SAT Spacecraft | G. Labrèche, C. Guzmán Alvarez | 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AeroConf 2023) | Mar 2023 |
| Machine learning detects anomalies in OPS-SAT telemetry | Bogdan Ruszczak, Krzysztof Kotowski, Jacek Andrzejewski, Alicja Musiał, David Evans, Vladimir Zelenevskiy, Sam Bammens, Rodrigo Laurinovics and Jakub Nalepal | ICCS 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| Enhanced Dynamic Targeting for the OPSSAT Cubesat | Victoria, J. M. D.; Candela, A.; and Chien, S. A. | IWPSS 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| Recovery from File System Corruption on the OPS-SAT-1 Experimental Processor | Henkel M, Evans D., Zelenevskiy V., Labrèche G., et al | 37th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellite (SmallSat 2023) | Aug 2023 |
| Developing Intelligent Space Systems: A Survey and Rubric for Future Missions | Mary Dahl, Christine Page, Kerri Cahoy, and Evana Gizzi | ||
| Towards Space Edge Computing and Onboard AI for Real-Time Teleoperations [Best Paper of IEEE ICCI*CC'23] | Markus Gardill, Witold Kinsner, Jan Budroweit, Akram Al-Hourani, Emily Dunkel, Jason Swope, David Evans, et al | IEEE ICCI*CC'23, California Institute of Technology, USA | Aug 2023 |
| DTN Demonstrations in ESA Ground Segment | Camillo Malnati, Felix Flentge | 2023 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE), Aveiro, Portugal | Sep 2023 |
| Look ma, no ground truth! On building supervised anomaly detection from OPS-SAT telemetry | Jakub Nalepa, Bogdan Ruszczak, Krzysztof Kotowski, Jacek Andrzejewski, Alicja Musial, David Evans, Vladimir Zelenevskiy, Sam Bammens, Rodrigo Laurinovics | 74th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Baku, Azerbaijan, 2-6 October 2023. IAC-23,B6,3,5,x78668 | Oct 2023 |
| Deploying Artificial Intelligence Capabilities by Hybridizing a Neural Network on a Satellite | Luis Chavier, Becca Bonham-Carter, Hugo Burd, Tim Heydrich, Galen O'Shea, Jacob Prud'homme, Nevedhaa Ayyappan, Mehsan Maharib, Thardchi Ganesalingam, Alan Higginson, Evan Smal, Samara Pillay, Kaizad V. Raimalwala, Yolanda Brown, Andrew J. Macdonald and Michele Faragalli | ASCEND 2023 Las-Vegas, Nevada, 23-25 October 2023 AIAA 2023-4718 | Oct 2023 |
| 2024 | |||
| "Mitigating and Recovering from Radiation Induced Faults in Non-Hardened Spacecraft Flash Memory" | Henkel M, Evans D., Zelenevskiy V., Labrèche G., et al | 2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AeroConf 2024) | Mar 2024 |
| "Generative AI... in Space! Adversarial Networks to Denoise Images Onboard the OPS-SAT-1 Spacecraft" | Labrèche G., Guzman C., and Bammens S. | ||
Academic Publications¶
| Title | Authors | Date | |
| A Software Framework for Nanosatellites based on CCSDS Mission Operations Services with Reference Implementation for ESA's OPS-SAT Mission | C. Coelho | Dissertation | Nov 2017 |
| Remote reception of messages from CubeSat OPS-SAT | Isaac García Quiroga | Bachlor thesis | Jan 2021 |
| Simulation of Precise Automatic Radio Frequency GroundStation Tracking For S-Band Satellites | A. Wajirakumara | Master thesis | May 2021 |
| Integration and validation of a nanosatellite flight software | Anthony Surivet | Master thesis | Aug 2021 |
| TGS adaptation OPS-SAT data reception and remote control | G.Villalta Quintana | Bachlor thesis | Sep 2021 |
| Modeling and exploration of neuromorphic architectures for high-performance embedded systems | E. Lemaire | Dissertation | May 2022 |
| On-board processing with AI for more autonomous and capable satellite systems | T. Lund | Master thesis | Sep 2022 |
| Space Oddity: Space Cybersecurity Lessons from a Simulated OPS-SAT Attack | M. Calabrese | Master thesis | Jul 2023 |
Scientific Articles¶
| Title | Authors | Journal, Volume | Date |
| Nanosatellites—the BRITE and OPS-SAT missions | O. Koudelka, M. Unterberger, P. Romano | e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (Volume 131, Issue 6, pp.178-187) | Sep 2014 |
| On-board autonomy operations for OPS-SAT experiment | S. Fratini, N. Policella, R. Silva, J. Guerreiro | Applied Intelligence, (Volume 52, Issue 6, pp. 6970–6987) | April 2022 |
| Experimental verification and comparison of fuzzy and PID controllers for attitude control of nanosatellites | A. Bello, K.S.Olfe, J. Rodríguez, J.M. Esquerro, V. Lapuerta | Advances in Space Research | May 2022 |
| Implementation of a GNU Radio-Based Search and Rescue Receiver on ESA's OPS-SAT Space Lab | T. Mladenov, D. Evans and V. Zelenevskiy | IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine ( Volume: 37, Issue: 5, pp.4-12) | May 2022 |
| Development and application of an embedded computer system for CubeSats exemplified by the OPS-SAT space mission | R. Zeif, M. Kubicka, A. J. Hörmer | e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (Volume 139, Issue 1, pp.8-15 ) | Feb 2022 |
| Thermal vacuum tests for the ESA’s OPS-SAT mission | M. Kubicka, R. Zeif, M. Henkel, A. Johan Hörmer | e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (Volume 139, Issue 1, pp.16-24) | Feb 2022 |
| Ring Road Networks: Access for Anyone | M. Feldmann, J.. Fraire; F. Walter; S.C. Burleigh | IEEE Communications Magazine ( Volume: 60, Issue: 4, pp. 38-44) | April 2022 |
| Space Cubes: Satellite On-Board Processing of Datacube Queries | P. Baumann, D. Misev | Open Journal of Internet of Things (OJIOT) (Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 44-53) | 2022 |
| ASTERIA : Autonomous collision risks management | J. Thomassin, S. Laurens, F- Toussaint | Acta Astronautica (Volume 200, pp. 599-611) | Nov 2022 |
| Context-Aware Lossless and Lossy Compression of Radio Frequency Signals | A.Martí, J.Portell, J.Riba, O.Mas | Sensors (Volume 23, Issue 7) | Apr 2023 |
| Open-Source Software in Space Operations | G. Labrèche, T. Mladenov | Space Education & Strategic Applications (Volume 4, Issue 2) | Jul 2023 |
Presentation¶
| Title | Authors | Occasion | Date |
| Mission Concept, Operations & Cubesats | D. Evans | SpaceOps Conference 2016 | May 2016 |
| OPS-SAT – opening a satellite to the internet | D.Marszk, J.Feiteirinha, B.Fischer, D.Taubert, T.Graber, A.Lofaldli, M.Sarkarati, D.Evans, M.Merri | SmallSat Symposium | |
| Cubesat Industry Days ESTEC 2017: OPS-SAT Status and Lessons Learnt | D.Evans, Prof. O.Koudelka | CubeSat Industry Days 2017 | Jun 2017 |
| OPS-SAT the world’s first mission dedicated to operations – ready to fly | D.Evans, D.Taubert, B.Fischer, J.Feiterinha, D.Marszk, C.Pullig, A.Lofaldli, V.Shiradhonkar, F.Hessinger | 7th European Mission Operations Data System Architecture Workshop (ESAW) | May 2019 |
| The OPS-SAT Nanosatellite Mission – Lessons Learnt | O.Koudelka, R.Zeif, M.Kubicka, M.Henkel, A.Hörmer, M.Unterberger, R.Finsterbusch, F.Teschl, D.Evans, D.Taubert, B.Fischer, D. Marszk, J Feiteirinha, C.Pullig, F.Hessinger, A.Lofaldli | CubeSat Industry Days 2019 | Jun 2019 |
| In space image processing using AI embedded on system on module: example of OPS-SAT cloud segmentation | F. Férésin, E.Kervennic , Y.Bobichon, E.Lemaire, N.Abderrahmane, G.Bahl, I.Grenet, M.Moretti, M.Benguigui | On-Board Payload Data Compression (OBPDC) Workshop 2020 | Jun 2020 |
| Onboard image processing using AI to reduce data transmission: example of OPS-SAT | Eng. Frédéric Feresin | 7th International Workshop OBPDC (On-board Payload Data Compression) 2020 | Sep 2020 |
| Concept Summary Experimenter Operations Onboard AI with Tensorflow Lite on the SmartCam App Experimenter Framework Automation tools and typical pass sequence Camera Acquisition System |
D.Evans, T.Mladenov, G. Labrèche, D.Marszk, L.Gagliardini, K.Otto | Open Source Cubesat Workshop 2020 (YouTube ) | Dec 2020 |
| OPS-SAT Space Lab: How the increased and more flexible onboard processing has changed the way we operate our satellite | D.Evans | On-Board Payload Data Compression (OBPDC) Workshop 2021 | Jun 2021 |
| In-flight OPS-SAT images processing by AI | Project team “Autonomous and Reactive Imagery Chain” (CIAR) | Jun 2021 | |
| OPS-SAT-2 Optical Space Lab | D.Evans | CubeSat Industry Days 2021 | Jun 2021 |
| Presenstation: OPS-SAT in orbit - a technical rundown of this open experimentation platform | D. Marszk, D. Evans, M. Henkel, O. Koudelka, M. Kubicka, M. Merri, T. Mladenov, K. Otto, M. Sarkarati | Data Systems in Aerospace (DASIA) Conference | Sep 2021 |
| OPS-SAT-1 FlatexDEGIRO Experiment | D.Evans | Nov 2021 | |
| OPS-SAT Space Lab: How increased onboard processing power has changed the way we operate our satellite | D.Evans | Sorbonne University | Dec 2021 |
| OPS-SAT Space Lab: How the in-flight implementation of powerful on-board communication protocols completely changed the operations on OPS-SAT-1 | D.Evans | Space-Terrestrial Internetworking (STINT) Workshop 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| EVALUATING THE NEW CCSDS MISSION PLANNING AND SCHEDULING STANDARD: HOW TGO AND ENMAP COULD HAVE BENEFITTED FROM AN INTEROPERABILITY STANDARD FOR THE EXCHANGE OF MISSION PLANNING AND SCHEDULING INFORMATION | Peter van der Plas | SpaceOps - 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| Accelerating Deep Learning for the Earth and Moon | B.Bonham-Carter, L.Chavier, E.Smal, T.Heydrich, G.O'Shea, H.Burd, S.Pillay, A.Macdonald, M.Faragalli | Flight Software Workshop 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| OPS-SAT Space Lab and the Thales Cyber Security Demo | D.Evans | CYSAT 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| First worldwide hacking demo of an in-orbit satellite: trading an experiment for a whole OPS-SAT. | Thales | CYSAT 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| IEEE LEO SatS: OPS-SAT Space Lab: The Perfect Space to Experiment with Edge Computing & Onboard AI - David Evans | D.Evans | 2023 IEEE LEO SatS Workshop on Space Edge Computing & Onboard AI | Jun 2023 |
| OPS-SAT Space Lab: Flight Opportunities. | D.Evans | IWPSS 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| EagleAI: Estimation of Attitude Geo-localizing Landmarks on Earth | Nelly Gaillard, Evridiki Ntagiou, David Evans, Dominik Marszk | 74th International Astronautical Congress; iaf iPoster Sessions | Oct 2023 |
| Hybridization Experiment of the SmartCam neural network onboard the European Space Agency - ESA's OPSSAT in low-earth orbit. | Andrew Macdonald | 14 October 2023 | |
| First Worldwide hacking of an in orbit satellite: how to ensure a long term cyber protection for space | Franck Perrin, Lionel Salmon, Brian Jouannic, David Evans | CYSAT 3rd edition | 17 October 2023 |
| EIRSAT-1 team discovers what it takes to be Spacecraft Operators | ESA Agency News | EIRSAT-Team visit OPS-SAT in ESOC | 17.11.2023 |
| Inside Story of OPS-SAT Space Lab: Part 2 | D. Evans | Presentation at ESTEC | 23.11.2023 |
| David Evans ESOC Lunchtime Lecture on OPS-SAT | D. Evans | Presentation at ESOC | 24.01.2024 |
Further Experimenter Publications¶
| Title | Authors | Published in | Date |
| Space Use-Case: Onboard Satellite Image Classification | E. Lemaire, P. Millet; B. Miramond, S. Bilavarn, H. Saoud, A. Sashala Naik | M. Jahre, D. Göhringer, P. Millet (eds) Towards Ubiquitous Low-power Image Processing Platforms, pp.199 | Dec 2020 |
| KP Labs’ Anomaly Detection System on OPS-SAT | KP Labs | TOP 10 Achievements in 2023 by KP Labs features OPS-SAT on 4th place | Dec 2023 |
Results of the OSIP campaign¶
Campaign summary
Open Space Innovation Platform
12 experiments chosen for funding
News¶
Five Teams of Hackers Will Compete to Breach U.S. Satellite in Space
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