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Emergent Space Technologies (United States)

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Research works
58
▲ 53% vs 2018-21
Citations
688
11.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
20%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Emergent Space Technologies (United States)

Not ranked overall: Emergent Space Technologies (United States) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Emergent Space Technologies (United States) work in?

In all years, 94% of research at Emergent Space Technologies (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (51%), Physics and Astronomy (21%), Computer Science (15%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 54 fractional works · 93.6% of its workEngineering: 30 fractional works · 51.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 25 fractional works · 43.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 12 fractional works · 20.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 11 fractional works · 19.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 9 fractional works · 15.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 5 fractional works · 8.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.8% of its workOceanography: 3 fractional works · 5.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKEmergent SpaceTechnologies…58fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences94%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences1%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering3051.3%
    2. Physics and Astronomy1220.7%
    3. Computer Science915.5%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences35.8%
    5. Environmental Science00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.6%
    3. Neuroscience00.4%
    1. Medicine11.5%
    2. Health Professions00.4%
    1. Decision Sciences11.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities00.2%
    3. Social Sciences00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.85× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.81× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 1.38× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 3.46× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringPhysics and Astronomy: 7.54× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 2.24× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 7.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy7.54×1 works
  2. Engineering3.46×4 works
  3. Decision Sciences2.24×0 works
  4. Computer Science1.38×1 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.85×0 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.81×0 works
  7. Medicine0.47×1 works
  8. Social Sciences0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Emergent Space Technologies (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, John Higinbotham and David Gaylor lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Emergent Space Technologies (United States).

  1. 1 John Higinbotham United States · #4,305,675 worldwide 147 citations · 15 works
  2. 2 David Gaylor United States · #4,511,663 worldwide 307 citations · 34 works
All ranked researchers at Emergent Space Technologies (United States)

What are the most cited papers from Emergent Space Technologies (United States)?

The most cited paper from Emergent Space Technologies (United States) is "The Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite – 2 mission: A global geolocated photon product derived from the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System" (T. Neumann et al., 2019), with 760 citations. Next come "The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER): design and development" (539) and "GRGM900C: A degree 900 lunar gravity model from GRAIL primary and extended mission data" (214).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite – 2 mission: A global geolocated photon product derived from the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System T. Neumann et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment Open access 9 Sep 2019 760
2 The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER): design and development Keith C. Gendreau et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paperOpen access108 authors 22 Jul 2016 539
3 GRGM900C: A degree 900 lunar gravity model from GRAIL primary and extended mission data F. G. Lemoine, Sander Goossens, Terence J. Sabaka et al. · Geophysical Research Letters Open access 3 May 2014 214
4 High‒degree gravity models from GRAIL primary mission data F. G. Lemoine, Sander Goossens, Terence J. Sabaka et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Planets Open access Aug 2013 170
5 Evidence for a low bulk crustal density for Mars from gravity and topography Sander Goossens, Terence J. Sabaka, Antonio Genova et al. · Geophysical Research Letters Open access 26 Jul 2017 128
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Emergent Space Technologies (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Orbit Determination, Sensor Fusion, On-Orbit Servicing, Space Debris, Global Navigation Satellite Systems, GNSS, Inertial Navigation Systems and Kalman Filtering.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Orbit Determination10▲ 383×2 topics
  2. Sensor Fusion5▲ 108×2 topics
  3. On-Orbit Servicing5▲ 429×1 topic
  4. Space Debris5▲ 429×1 topic
  5. GNSS5▲ 342×1 topic
  6. Global Navigation Satellite Systems5▲ 301×1 topic
  7. Inertial Navigation Systems4▲ 270×1 topic
  8. Kalman Filtering4▲ 270×1 topic
  9. CubeSat4▲ 295×1 topic
  10. small satellite4▲ 295×1 topic
  11. Distributed Systems4▲ 29×2 topics
  12. Solar System Abundances4▲ 81×1 topic
  13. Terrestrial Planets4▲ 81×1 topic
  14. Solar Wind3▲ 39×2 topics
  15. Climate Change3▲ 1.98×3 topics
  16. Sea Level Rise3▲ 40×2 topics
  17. GRACE3▲ 103×1 topic
  18. Mars3▲ 103×1 topic
  19. Martian Surface3▲ 103×1 topic
  20. groundwater depletion3▲ 103×1 topic
  21. Trajectory Optimization3▲ 156×2 topics
  22. Optimal Control3▲ 59×1 topic
  23. Risk Assessment3▲ 7.6×2 topics
  24. Spacecraft Formation Flying3▲ 293×1 topic
  25. Biomechanics2▲ 13×3 topics
  26. Consistency2▲ 96×1 topic
  27. Fault Tolerance2▲ 19×1 topic
  28. Extravehicular Activity2▲ 239×1 topic
  29. High-Performance Computing2▲ 24×2 topics
  30. Space Suit2▲ 239×1 topic
  31. Grid Computing2▲ 50×1 topic
  32. Resource Management2▲ 19×1 topic
  33. Coronal Mass Ejections2▲ 42×1 topic
  34. Solar Dynamics Observatory2▲ 42×1 topic
  35. Ionosphere1▲ 36×1 topic
  36. Magnetosphere1▲ 36×1 topic
  37. Multi-Agent Systems1▲ 11×2 topics
  38. LEO Satellite Constellation1▲ 93×1 topic
  39. Nonlinear Estimation1▲ 59×1 topic
  40. Particle Filters1▲ 59×1 topic

Which research topics does Emergent Space Technologies (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Space Satellite Systems and Control, Satellite Communication Systems, Spaceflight effects on biology and Planetary Science and Exploration.

Space Satellite Systems and Control: 1 fractional worksSatellite Communication Systems: 1 fractional worksSpaceflight effects on b…1Spaceflight effects on biology: 1 fractional worksPlanetary Science and Ex…1Planetary Science and Exploration: 1 fractional worksSpace Exploration and Technology: 1 fractional worksSpacecraft Design and Technology: 0 fractional worksGNSS positioning and int…0GNSS positioning and interference: 0 fractional workssolar cell performance optimization: 0 fractional worksSolar and Space Plasma Dynamics: 0 fractional worksDistributed Control Multi-Agent Systems: 0 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringPhysiologyAstronomy and AstrophysicsElectrical and Electronic Engineering1 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Space Satellite Systems and Control Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  2. 2 Satellite Communication Systems Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Spaceflight effects on biology Physiology 1 works
  4. 4 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 works
  5. 5 Space Exploration and Technology Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  6. 6 Spacecraft Design and Technology Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 GNSS positioning and interference Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 solar cell performance optimization Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  10. 10 Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems Computer Networks and Communications 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available19.7%not open80.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.0%domestic only91.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Emergent Space Technologies (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 53% higher than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Emergent Space Technologies (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000068% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Emergent Space Technologies (United States)0.000013% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Emergent Space Technologies (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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