OPS-SAT-1 Publications
CDF studies
Conference Papers
OPS-SAT: A ESA nanosatellite for accelerating innovation in satellite control
Conference PapersSpaceOps Conference 2014, 08/2014
Game-changing Radio Communication Architecture for Cube/nano Satellites
Conference PapersSmall Satellite Conference 2015, 08/2015
OPS-SAT Experiments’ Software Management with the NanoSat MO Framework
Conference PapersAIAA SPACE 2016, 09/2016
OPS-SAT: Designing a Mission from the Ground Upwards
Conference PapersSpaceOps Conference 2016, 05/2016
OPS-SAT: Operational Concept for ESA’S First Mission Dedicated to Operational Technology
Conference PapersSpaceOps Conference 2016, 05/2016
OPS-SAT: FDIR Design on a Mission that Expects Bugs - and Lots of Them
Conference PapersSpaceOps Conference 2016, 05/2016
CCSDS Mission Operations directory service: Paving the road for a new World of services
Conference Papers4S Symposium 2016, 05/2016
NanoSat MO framework: When OBSW turns into apps
Conference PapersIEEE Aerospace Conference 2017, 03/2017
NanoSat MO Framework: Drill down your nanosatellite’s platform using CCSDS Mission Operations services
Conference Papers68th International Astronautical Congress, 09/2017
The ESA OPS-SAT Mission: Don't just say there is a better way, fly it and prove it
Conference PapersSpaceOps Conference 2018, 06/2018
The redundancy and fail-safe concept of the OPS-SAT payload processing platform
Conference Papers69 th International Astronautical Congress, 10/2018
OPS-SAT – opening a satellite to the internet
Conference Papers12th Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation, 05/2019
On Board autonomous Operations for OPS-SAT
Conference Papers15th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA) 2019, 05/2019
ESOC Ground Station Architecture for OPS-SAT
Conference Papers8th International Workshop on Tracking, Telemetry and Command Systems for Space Applications (TTC) 2019, 09/2019
From OPS-SAT to PRETTY Mission: A Second Generation Software Defined Radio Transceiver for Passive Reflectometry
Conference PapersInternational Conference on Broadband Communications for Next Generation Networks and Multimedia Applications (CoBCom) 2020, 07/2020
An FPGA-Based Hybrid Neural Network Accelerator for Embedded Satellite Image Classification
Conference Papers2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 09/2020
ESA’s OPS-SAT Mission: Powered by GNU Radio
Conference PapersGNU Radio Conference 2020 (Vol 5 No 1), 09/2021
OPS-SAT in orbit - a technical rundown of this open experimentation platform
Conference PapersData Systems in Aerospace (DASIA) Conference, 09/2021
Machine Learning in Earth Observation Operations: A review
Conference Papers72 nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), 10/2021
Agile Development and Rapid Prototyping in a Flying Mission with Open Source Software Reuse On-Board the OPS-SAT Spacecraft
Conference PapersAIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, 12/2021
Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Planning and Scheduling of Image Acquisition with the SmartCam App On-Board the OPS-SAT Spacecraft
Conference PapersAIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, 12/2021
TruSat: Building Cyber Trust in Collaborative Spacecraft Networks
Conference Papers2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AeroConf 2022), 03/2022
Refined Astrometry on Board a CubeSat
Conference Papers2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AeroConf 2022), 03/2022
OPS-SAT Spacecraft Autonomy with TensorFlow Lite, Unsupervised Learning, and Online Machine Learning
Conference Papers2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AeroConf 2022), 03/2022
ORBiDANSe: Orbital Big Datacube Analytics Service
Conference PapersEGU General Assembly, 05/2022
On-Board images to specify and commission the ADCS
Conference PapersThe 4S Symposium 2020, 05/2020
SPLEAT: SPiking Low-power Event-based ArchiTecture for in-orbit processing of satellite imagery
Conference Papers2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 07/2022
Validated Numerics: Algorithms and Practical Applications in Aerospace
Conference PapersInternational Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) 2022, 07/2022
Commissioning a Fully-Reconfigurable Communication Chain in a CCSDS-Compliant Way on OPS-SAT Satellite
Conference PapersInternational Conference on Broadband Communications for Next Generation Networks and Multimedia (CoBCom) 2022, 07/2022
V'CER: Efficient Certificate Validation in Constrained Networks
Conference PapersUSENIX Security 2022, 08/2022
Machine Learning Image Processing Algorithms Onboard OPS-SAT
Conference Papers36th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellite (SmallSat 2022), 08/2022
MO Services and CFDP in Action on OPS-SAT
Conference Papers36th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellite (SmallSat 2022), 08/2022
OPS-SAT LEOP and Commissioning: Running a Nanosatellite Project in a Space Agency Contex
Conference Papers36th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellite (SmallSat 2022), 08/2022
Implementing the New CCSDS Housekeeping Data Compression Standard 124.0-B-1 (based on POCKET+) on OPS-SAT
Conference Papers36th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellite (SmallSat 2022), 08/2022
On-board Images to Characterize a CubeSat's ADCS
Conference Papers36th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellite (SmallSat 2022), 08/2022
ASTERIA In-Orbit Testing on OPSSAT: An On-Board Autonomous Orbit Control Solution Including Collision Risks Avoidance
Conference Papers36th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellite (SmallSat 2022), 08/2022
Augmenting Digital Signal Processing with Machine Learning techniques using the Software Defined Radio on the OPS-SAT Space Lab
Conference Papers73rd International Astronautical Congress, Paris, 09/2022
Supporting CubeSat operations using SMILE infrastructure at European Space Agency
Conference Papers73rd International Astronautical Congress, Paris, 09/2022
Deployment of a cloud segmentation neural network on embedded hardware targets and benchmark of the different deployment toolchains
Conference Papers 8th International Workshop OBPDC (On-board Payload Data Compression) 2022, 09/2022
Image and radio-frequency data compression for OPS-SAT using FAPEC
Conference Papers 8th International Workshop OBPDC (On-board Payload Data Compression) 2022, 09/2022
Toward On-Board Detection of Anomalous Events from OPS-SAT-Telemetry Using Deep Learning
Conference Papers 8th International Workshop OBPDC (On-board Payload Data Compression) 2022, 09/2022
Enabling Autonomy with a Deep Learning Framework for Planetary Exploration
Conference PapersAccelerating Humanity's Off World Future (ASCEND) 2022, 10/2022
Testing SpaceFibre in Orbit: the OPS-SAT and NORBY Technology Demonstrators
Conference Papers9th International SpaceWire and SpaceFibre Conference, 10/2022
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.
Conference PapersSpaceOps - 2023, 03/2023
Validation and Demonstration of Disruption Tolerant Networking Technologies in ESA Ground Segment
Conference PapersSpaceOps - 2023, 03/2023
OPS-SAT-2: An ESA in-orbit laboratory for optical and quantum Ground-Space experimentation
Conference PapersSpaceOps-2023, 03/2023
SaaSyML: Software as a Service for Machine Learning On-board the OPS-SAT Spacecraft
Conference Papers2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AeroConf 2023), 03/2023
Machine learning detects anomalies in OPS-SAT telemetry
Conference PapersICCS 2023, 07/2023
Enhanced Dynamic Targeting for the OPSSAT Cubesat
Conference PapersIWPSS 2023, 07/2023
Recovery from File System Corruption on the OPS-SAT-1 Experimental Processor
Conference Papers37th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellite (SmallSat 2023), 08/2023
Developing Intelligent Space Systems: A Survey and Rubric for Future Missions
Conference Papers37th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellite (SmallSat 2023), 08/2023
Towards Space Edge Computing and Onboard AI for Real-Time Teleoperations [Best Paper of IEEE ICCI*CC'23]
Conference PapersIEEE ICCI*CC'23, California Institute of Technology, USA, 08/2023
DTN Demonstrations in ESA Ground Segment
Conference Papers2023 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE), Aveiro, Portugal, 09/2023
Look ma, no ground truth! On building supervised anomaly detection from OPS-SAT telemetry
Conference Papers74th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Baku, Azerbaijan, 2-6 October 2023. IAC-23,B6,3,5,x78668, 10/2023
Deploying Artificial Intelligence Capabilities by Hybridizing a Neural Network on a Satellite
Conference PapersASCEND 2023 Las-Vegas, Nevada, 23-25 October 2023 AIAA 2023-4718, 10/2023
Mitigating and Recovering from Radiation Induced Faults in Non-Hardened Spacecraft Flash Memory
Conference Papers2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AeroConf 2024), 03/2024
Generative AI... in Space! Adversarial Networks to Denoise Images Onboard the OPS-SAT-1 Spacecraft
Conference Papers2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AeroConf 2024), 04/2024
Interference Monitoring from Low Earth Orbit: The OPS-SAT Experiment
Conference PapersProceedings of European Navigation Conference 2024, 03/2025
Innovating ground software systems – a retrospective of OPS-SAT-1 mission
Conference PapersSpaceOps - 2025, 05/2025
Operational Challenges and Achievements of the OPS-SAT-1 Mission
Conference Papers2025 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 03/2025
OPS-SAT-1's Final Orbits and Reentry Analysis Amid Mission Extension Attempts
Conference Papers2025 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 03/2025
Academic Publications
A Software Framework for Nanosatellites based on CCSDS Mission Operations Services with Reference Implementation for ESA's OPS-SAT Mission
Academic PublicationsDissertation, 11/2017
Automation of Operation and Testing for European Space Agency's OPS-SAT Mission
Academic PublicationsMaster Thesis, 08/2019
Remote reception of messages from CubeSat OPS-SAT
Academic PublicationsBachlor thesis, 01/2021
Simulation of Precise Automatic Radio Frequency GroundStation Tracking For S-Band Satellites
Academic PublicationsMaster thesis, 05/2021
Integration and validation of a nanosatellite flight software
Academic PublicationsMaster thesis, 08/2021
TGS adaptation OPS-SAT data reception and remote control
Academic PublicationsBachlor thesis, 09/2021
Thermal modelling and on-orbit sensor calibration and analysis on ESA’s OPS-SAT nanosatellite
Academic PublicationsDissertation, 10/2021
Modeling and exploration of neuromorphic architectures for high-performance embedded systems
Academic PublicationsDissertation, 05/2022
On-board processing with AI for more autonomous and capable satellite systems
Academic PublicationsMaster thesis, 09/2022
Space Oddity: Space Cybersecurity Lessons from a Simulated OPS-SAT Attack
Academic PublicationsMaster thesis, 07/2023
Using a Reconfigurable FPGA for Emerging Space Applications
Academic PublicationsDissertation, 04/2024
Scientific Articles
Nanosatellites—the BRITE and OPS-SAT missions
Scientific Articlese & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (Volume 131, Issue 6, pp.178-187), 09/2014
On-board autonomy operations for OPS-SAT experiment
Scientific ArticlesApplied Intelligence, (Volume 52, Issue 6, pp. 6970–6987), 04/2022
Experimental verification and comparison of fuzzy and PID controllers for attitude control of nanosatellites
Scientific ArticlesAdvances in Space Research (Volume 71, Issue 9, pp3613-3630), 05/2022
Implementation of a GNU Radio-Based Search and Rescue Receiver on ESA's OPS-SAT Space Lab
Scientific ArticlesIEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine ( Volume: 37, Issue: 5, pp.4-12), 05/2022
Development and application of an embedded computer system for CubeSats exemplified by the OPS-SAT space mission
Scientific Articlese & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (Volume 139, Issue 1, pp.8-15 ), 02/2022
Thermal vacuum tests for the ESA’s OPS-SAT mission
Scientific Articlese & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (Volume 139, Issue 1, pp.16-24), 02/2022
Ring Road Networks: Access for Anyone
Scientific ArticlesIEEE Communications Magazine ( Volume: 60, Issue: 4, pp. 38-44), 04/2022
Space Cubes: Satellite On-Board Processing of Datacube Queries
Scientific ArticlesOpen Journal of Internet of Things (OJIOT) (Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 44-53), 2022
ASTERIA : Autonomous collision risks management
Scientific ArticlesActa Astronautica (Volume 200, pp. 599-611), 11/2022
Context-Aware Lossless and Lossy Compression of Radio Frequency Signals
Scientific ArticlesSensors (Volume 23, Issue 7), 04/2023
Open-Source Software in Space Operations
Scientific ArticlesSpace Education & Strategic Applications (Volume 4, Issue 2), 07/2023
Presentations
Poster - OPS-SAT – opening a satellite to the internet
Presentations12th Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation, 05/2019
In space image processing using AI embedded on system on module: example of OPS-SAT cloud segmentation
Presentations On-Board Payload Data Compression (OBPDC) Workshop 2020, 06/2020
Concept Summary
PresentationsOpen Source Cubesat Workshop 2020, 12/2020
Experimenter Operations
PresentationsOpen Source Cubesat Workshop 2020, 12/2020
Onboard AI with Tensorflow Lite on the SmartCam App
PresentationsOpen Source Cubesat Workshop 2020, 12/2020
Experimenter Framework
PresentationsOpen Source Cubesat Workshop 2020, 12/2020
Automation tools and typical pass sequence
PresentationsOpen Source Cubesat Workshop 2020, 12/2020
Camera Acquisition System
PresentationsOpen Source Cubesat Workshop 2020, 12/2020
Presentation: OPS-SAT in orbit - a technical rundown of this open experimentation platform
PresentationsData Systems in Aerospace (DASIA) Conference, 09/2021
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
PresentationsSpaceOps - 2023, 03/2023
Accelerating Deep Learning for the Earth and Moon
PresentationsFlight Software Workshop 2023 (Youtube recording), 04/2023
OPS-SAT Space Lab and the Thales Cyber Security Demo
PresentationsCYSAT 2023, 04/2023
First worldwide hacking demo of an in-orbit satellite: trading an experiment for a whole OPS-SAT.
PresentationsCYSAT 2023, 04/2023
IEEE LEO SatS: OPS-SAT Space Lab: The Perfect Space to Experiment with Edge Computing & Onboard AI - David Evans
Presentations2023 IEEE LEO SatS Workshop on Space Edge Computing & Onboard AI (Video recording), 06/2023
OPS-SAT Space Lab: Flight Opportunities.
PresentationsIWPSS 2023, 07/2023
EagleAI: Estimation of Attitude Geo-localizing Landmarks on Earth
Presentations74th International Astronautical Congress; iaf iPoster Sessions, 10/2023
Hybridization Experiment of the SmartCam neural network onboard the European Space Agency - ESA's OPSSAT in low-earth orbit.
PresentationsLinkedIn, 10/2023
First Worldwide hacking of an in orbit satellite: how to ensure a long term cyber protection for space
PresentationsCYSAT 3rd edition, 10/2023
EIRSAT-1 team discovers what it takes to be Spacecraft Operators
PresentationsEIRSAT-Team visit OPS-SAT in ESOC, 2023
Inside Story of OPS-SAT Space Lab: Part 2
PresentationsPresentation at ESTEC, 2023
David Evans ESOC Lunchtime Lecture on OPS-SAT
PresentationsPresentation at ESOC, 2024
OPS-SAT-1 Reentry Campaign and End-of-Life
PresentationsESA Clean Space Days at ESTEC, 10/2024
OPS-SAT-1 Automation Overview
PresentationsPresentation at ESOC, 11/2024
Further Experimenter Publications
