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CubeSat is a term coined to refer to a satellites as small as a cube with 10cm edges. Even these small satellites are recommended to comply with the ISO standards defined within the CubeSat Design Specification. CubeSats play a notable role in the New Space Economy. These spacecrafts are systems of great interest to the industry, scientific community, and government agencies as affordable facilities providing capabilities for a broad set of activities. The great success of CubeSats can be largely attributed to the “low cost and fast delivery” paradigm they introduced to the space research. Unfortunately, the new paradigm is also to be considered accountable for the high percentage of failed missions, due to the fact that CubeSat critical components are built with cheap materials and to the low-cost processes of production and verification. Furthermore, CubeSats either implement very limited Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) functionality or lack it completely. The focus of the ATMonSAT project is to improve fault detection onboard CubeSats using artificial neural networks for CubeSat systems and related spacecraft where computing resources are limited.
