Dr. Massimiliano Pastena Profile

Dr. Massimiliano Pastena

at European Space Research and Technology Ctr

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Proceedings Article | 12 July 2023 Open Access

The Scout 1 - CubeMAP mission: an agile development for an innovative payload

W. Glastre, A. Hoffmann, M. Pastena, D. Weidmann, J.-P. Lejault

Proceedings Volume 12777, 127770K (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2688823

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Sun, Satellites, Astronomical imaging, Quantum cascade lasers, Ozone, Design and modelling, Climate change, Atmospheric particles, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 13 September 2021 Presentation

Overview of ESA Earth observation CubeSats missions

Massimiliano Pastena, Nicola Melega

Proceedings Volume 11858, 1185814 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2597557

KEYWORDS: Satellites, Earth sciences, Earth observing sensors, Artificial intelligence, Aluminum

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The mission of the Earth Observation Programme (EOP) Directorate in ESA is to keep observation techniques at the most updated technological state, creating cutting-edge products and expanding Earth science knowledge. In recent years, in the spirit of its own mission, the EOP Directorate investigated the capabilities offered by small satellites establishing three different lines of mission implementation activities depending on the overall objective i.e., novel Earth Observation techniques in Earth science (Scout class), industrial innovation to support European industry competitiveness (InCubed class) or In Orbit Demonstration (IOD) of innovative EO techniques enabled by disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence (Φ-Sat class). [ “Overview of ESA’s Earth Observation upcoming small satellites missions” M. Pastena et Al. 34th Small Satellite Conference] Although these mission lines are all relatively new, they have produced a consistent number of studies, ideas and developments and in particular many CubeSat based mission developments. This paper will present an overview of all the missions under development in the ESA Earth Observation Programmes which are based on CubeSats, starting with preliminary in-flight results of the Φ-Sat-1 mission launched in Q3 2019 representing the first ESA Earth Observation CubeSat mission. Within the Φ-Sat class a follow-on mission, namely Φ-Sat-2, has just started its preparation phase and it is planned to be launched by the end of 2022. Concerning the Scout programme, for the CubeSat-based missions the focus will be on the ESP-MACCS mission, based on a small constellation of three 12U CubeSats, that has been selected for implementation as the first Scout mission. In parallel to the ESP-MACCS mission implementation, as part of the follow-up of the Scout consolidation phase, risk retirement activities will be initiated for the NanoMagSat and TANGO missions. Finally, the paper will present the InCubed missions based on CubeSat currently under preparation, i.e. MANTIS and Hyperfield.

Proceedings Article | 21 September 2020 Presentation + Paper

Small satellites landscape: ESA Earth observation with a focus on optical missions

M. Pastena, N. Melega, M. Tossaint, A. Regan, M. Castorina, A. Gabriele, P. Mathieu, J. Rosello

Proceedings Volume 11530, 115300T (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2573972

KEYWORDS: Satellites, Commercial off the shelf technology, Space operations, Data processing, Artificial intelligence, Super resolution, Temporal resolution, Earth sciences

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Proceedings Article | 20 September 2020 Presentation + Paper

Cubesats for monitoring atmospheric processes (CubeMAP): a constellation mission to study the middle atmosphere

Damien Weidmann, Kelly Antonini, Daniel Martinez Pino, Bertel Brodersen, Gayatri Patel, Michaela Hegglin, Christopher Sioris, William Bell, Kazuyuki Miyazaki, Lars Alminde, Antonio Gabriele, Massimiliano Pastena, Alex Hoffmann

Proceedings Volume 11530, 115300U (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2573727

KEYWORDS: Atmospheric monitoring, Earth's atmosphere, Spectrometers, Imaging systems, Troposphere, Climatology, Spectral resolution, Climate change, Atmospheric modeling, Atmospheric sciences

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Proceedings Article | 22 August 2020 Poster + Presentation + Paper

A compact multispectral imager for the MANTIS mission 12U CubeSat

Rafael Guzmán, Ricardo López, Eider Ocerin, Stuart Davis, Juan Tomás Hernani, Rob Brennan-Craddock, Nick Kelleman, Massimiliano Pastena, Nicola Melega, Flavio Mariani

Proceedings Volume 11505, 1150507 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2568080

KEYWORDS: Satellites, Image processing, Cameras, Spatial resolution, Signal to noise ratio, RGB color model, Interfaces, Space operations, Imaging systems, High resolution satellite images

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Proceedings Article | 30 August 2019 Presentation + Paper

In-orbit demonstration of artificial intelligence applied to hyperspectral and thermal sensing from space

M. Esposito, S. Conticello, M. Pastena, B. Carnicero Domínguez

Proceedings Volume 11131, 111310C (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2532262

KEYWORDS: Satellites, Artificial intelligence, Thermography, Remote sensing, Data acquisition, Infrared radiation, Hyperspectral imaging, Clouds, Imaging systems, Neural networks

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cosine Remote Sensing is leading the first ever demonstration of on-board Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to the combination of hyperspectral and thermal imaging. The sensing device is a miniaturized reflective optical instrument equipped with unprecedented processing capabilities. The European Space Agency (ESA) has contracted cosine Remote Sensing to highly integrate Thermal Infrared (TIR) technologies into a miniaturized Visible-Near-InfraRed (VNIR) hyperspectral imager and to fit the combined spectral channels in a volume of less than two litres. The imager is named HyperScout-2 as it will use the HyperScout-1 platform, that has flight heritage, as building block to further integrate spectral channels. HyperScout-2 is equipped with a hybrid processing platform composed of a CPU, GPU and VPU. The VPU is a state of art vision processing unit developed by Intel and is for the first time flew in space as part of HyperScout-2. HyperScout-2 will enable experimental programs to investigate the use of Artificial Intelligence for a variety of applications in the field of object detection and data inference. The first application that will be run on is cloud screening. HyperScout-2 will be used as in-orbit test-bed to benchmark the performance of such a miniaturized class of systems as well as to perform hands-on investigations to forecast the benefits of combining frequent coregistrated measurements in the VNIR and TIR from nanosatellites, with less frequent but very accurate measurements performed by institutional satellites such as the Copernicus fleet. This initiative is named PhiSat-1 and is part of the ESA EOP initiative to leverage small satellites to foster technology breakthrough developments. This contribution reports on a general description of HyperScout-2 as well as about the fast track program in which is implemented. We will also highlight the way the space asset will be exploited especially regarding the understanding of the potential of small systems deployed within small satellites constellation if integrated into ecosystems made of small and large systems. The PhiSat-1 is implemented as an enhancement of the FSSCat mission in a 6U cubesat based on Tyvak International platform integrating cosine Remote Sensing hyperspectral/thermal system. The cloud screening application is led by cosine Remote Sensing and supported by Sinergise, Ubotica and University of Pisa.

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Conference Committee Involvement (4)

CubeSats, SmallSats, and Hosted Payloads for Remote Sensing VII

22 August 2023 | San Diego, California, United States

CubeSats and SmallSats for Remote Sensing VI

21 August 2022 | San Diego, California, United States

CubeSats and SmallSats for Remote Sensing V

1 August 2021 | San Diego, California, United States

CubeSats and SmallSats for Remote Sensing IV

24 August 2020 | Online Only, California, United States

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