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Nowadays, the earh orbit is becoming more and more full of space debris, most of them are located in the low earth orbit and the situationis getting worse in 2209 if nothing can be done now.

These debris represents more than 500 000 trackable units, with 20 000 which are bigger than a tennis ball, b

ut millions others which are too small to be tracked. That is why for 25 years, the creation of new debris is forbidden by laws and regulations.

However, a new solution has been developed: the Cubesat, which is a nanosatellite of 1dm3, with a weight less than 1.33kg, mostly used by studdents because of their low cost. This technology will increase in the years to come and achieve more than 2000 cubesats located in the low earth orbit, with a consequence of the increase of space debris. In fact, the orbital lifetime for a cubesat above 700 km (which corresponds to the low earh orbit) is about 25 years.

There is a need for deorbiting systems for cubeSats.Thus, the solution is to provide a deorbiting system using Earth magnetic field, which has to be cost-efficient, roorm-efficient, and light in order to be easily implemented on other CubeSats missions.