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Aerospace and Electronic

Editor-in-Chief-Maria S. Greco
Associate Editor-in-Chief-Peter K. Willett
Administrative Editor-William P. Walsh
Ass't. Admin. Editor-Susanne J. Walsh
Editor Emeritus-David B. Dobson
VP Publications-W. Dale Blair
AESS President-Teresa L. Pace
Executive Assistant, AESS
-Judy Scharmann

Contributing Editors
Awards-Erwin C. Gangl
Book Reviews Editor-Darin Dunham
Conferences-Mark Davis
Distinguished Lecturers &
Tutorials-Kathleen Kramer
Education-Kathleen Kramer
History-Hugh D. Griffiths
Student Research-Wenbo Dou,
John Glass
Technical Panels-Walter Downing
Tutorials Editor-W. Dale Blair
Website Updates-Judy Scharmann

Associate Editors and Areas of
Specialty
Scott Bawden-Energy Conversion
Systems
Erik Blasch, Roberto Sabatini-Avionics
Systems
Domenico Ciuonzo-Communications,
Signal Processing, and Data Fusion
David Crouse-Target Tracking
Mauro De Sanctis-Signal Processing and
Communication in Aerospace Systems
Michael Braasch-Navigation, Positioning
Giancarmine Fasano-UAS
Daniel O'Hagan-Radar Systems
Open-Astronautic and Aeronautic
Systems
Haiying Liu-Control System Engineering
and Robotic Systems
Michael Cardinale-Electro-Optic and
Infrared Systems, Image Processing
Ruhai Wang-Systems Engineering
Peter Willett-Multi-Sensor Systems

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June 2017

ISSN 0885-8985

Volume 32 Number 6

COLUMNS
In This Issue - Technically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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From the Associate Editor-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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ARTICLES
State-of-the-Art Space Mission Telecommand Receivers
M. Baldi, M. Bertinelli, F. Chiaraluce, P. Closas, P. Dhakal, R. Garello,
N. Maturo, M. Navarro, J. M. Palomo, E. Paolini, S. Pfletschinger, P. F.
Silva, L. Simone, J. Vilà-Valls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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An Innovative Test Bed for Verification of Attitude Control System
A. Tavakoli, A. Faghihinia, A. Kalhor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Elimination of Resampling Errors in Wide Area Motion Imagery
(WAMI)
Curtis Cohenour, Todd Rovito, Frank van Graas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
LituanicaSAT-2: Design of The 3U In-Orbit Technology Demonstration
CubeSat
Laurynas Mačiulis, Vytenis Buzas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Historical Article: Early History of Polish Radars
Zbigniew Czekała, Piotr Samczyński . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Student Research Highlights: Quadrotor Electronics and Intelligent
Control
Allen Babb, Muhittin Yilmaz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

NEWS AND INFORMATION
2017 Robert T. Hill Best Dissertation Award - Call for Nominations . . . . . 22
Call for Papers: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine
Special Issue on: Selected Methods and Instrumentation of
Metrology for AeroSpace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
IEEE Open Access Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Meetings and Conferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . inside back cover



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