The traffic in cislunar space is expected to increase over the coming years, leading to a higher likelihood of conjunction events among active satellites, orbital debris, and noncooperative satellites. This increase necessitates enhanced space domain awareness (SDA) capabilities that include state estimation for targets of interest. Both Earth surface-based and space-based observation platforms in geosynchronous orbit or below face challenges such as range, exclusion, and occlusion that hinder observation. Motivated by the need to place space-based observers in the cislunar space regime to overcome these challenges, this paper proposes a cislunar SDA constellation design and analysis framework that integrates state estimation into an optimization problem for determining the placement of observers for optimal state estimation performance on a set of targets. The proposed multiobserver placement optimization problem samples from a range of possible target orbits. Upon convergence, the optimized constellation is validated against a broader set of targets to assess its effectiveness. Two comparative analyses are presented to evaluate the effects of changes in the sensor tasking procedure and sensor fidelity on the optimized constellation, comparing these to a single observer baseline case. The results demonstrate that the optimized constellations can provide accurate state estimation for various orbit families.


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    Titel :

    Embedded State Estimation for Optimization of Cislunar Space Domain Awareness Constellation Design


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.05.2025




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz) , Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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