This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Small Satellites and its Applications (ICSS) 2022. It aims to provide a comprehensive and broad-spectrum picture of the state-of-the-art research, development, and commercial perspective of various discoveries conducted in the real-world smart small satellites, applications, and their services. The contents of this book focus on efficient power management systems, application-based optimum payload designs, telemetry and telecom and advanced navigation and RF systems, flight and ground software, structure, mechanism and materials, spacecraft autonomy, quality, testing and reliability for designing the small satellites through advanced computational procedures for a variety of applications, etc. This book proves to be a valuable resource for those in academia and industry.
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Daljeet Singh is working as Assistant Professor in the Centre for Space Research, Division of Research and Development at Lovely Professional University, India. He received the B. Tech. (Hons.) and M. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Lovely Professional University, India, in 2011 and 2013, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India, in 2019. His current research interests include the design, optimization and fabrication of planar microstrip antennas for UWB, satellite and other communication applications. He is also working on the mathematical modeling, characterization and simulation of wireless communication systems including MIMO-OFDM, massive MIMO, NOMA, spatial multiplexing and simulation of advanced wireless communication systems by utilizing MATLAB and Simulink platforms. He has guided three M.Tech. and two Ph.D. students, and currently, several M.Tech./Ph.D. students are working under him. He was awarded Institutional Fellowship during his Ph.D. and M.Tech. He has a good track record of publications in top-tier conferences and journals like IEEE, Elsevier and Wiley, AEU, PIERS. He has published six research patents and holds one design patent. He is an active reviewer of various international journals of repute.
Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary is an Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. He served in the Department of Electronics Engineering, IIT Dhanbad, as Assistant Professor (June 2013–April 2021) and as Associate Professor (April 2021–May 2022). He received a B.Tech. from UIET Kanpur, India, in 2007, an M.Tech. from IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India, in 2009, and a Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur, India, in 2014. He has researched developing the metamaterial antenna and dielectric resonator antenna (DRA). The development of the circularly polarized (CP) compact antenna is oneof his major areas of contribution. He has published over 250 papers in leading journals and conferences along with a reference book on CP-DRA published by Artech House, London, UK. He has guided 19 M.Tech. students and 11 Ph.D. students, and currently, several M.Tech./Ph.D. students are working under him. He is a Recipient of the Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award (2021) of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), the Young Engineers Award (2020) of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), the Young Scientist Award (2020) of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Young Engineers Award (2019–20) of the Institution of Engineers, India (IEI), and many best paper awards in different categories in national and international conferences. He has served as Student Chair for the IEEE Student Branch of Uttar Pradesh Section, in 2012–2013, as Advisor of the IEEE Student Branch, and as Founding Advisor of the AP/MTT Societies Student Branch Joint Chapter of IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. He was also a Member of the Executive Committee of IEEE Kolkata Section, 2021, and an Executive Committee Member of IEEE AP-MTT Kolkata Chapter, 2022. He is serving as Associate Editor of three journals, namely IET Microwave Antennas & Propagation, IEEE Access and Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Wiley. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Senior Member of URSI, INAE Young Associate and a Life Member of InRaSS. He is a Potential Reviewer of several international journals and also got recognition from IEEE Antenna & Propagation Society for his exceptional performance as a Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation for 2020–2021. He has also been featured and interviewed by IET Electronics Letters, UK.
Krishna D. Kumar received his Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1998. He is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Artificial Intelligencefor Aerospace Systems (AIAS) Laboratory at Ryerson University, Canada. His research interests are in the areas of spacecraft dynamics and control, fault diagnosis and prognosis, big data, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence. He has received several awards that include Member of the International Academy of Astronautics, France (2019), Eminent Alumnus Award, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Sambalpur (2017), Sarwan Sahota Ryerson Distinguished Scholar Award (2015), Canada Research Chair (2005–2015), Associate Fellow and Life Member of AIAA (2012), Ontario Early Researcher Award (2006–2011), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship (2001–2003) and Science and Technology Agency (STA) Fellowship (1998–2000). He has more than 230 research publications in national and international journals and conferences.
