Over the past few decades, there has been immense advancement in the miniaturization of onboard computer, sensor, actuator, and battery technologies. These developments have helped in miniaturing the satellites. Despite this advantage, however, due to their limited size and weight, no meaningful practical mission is possible using small satellites in stand-alone mode. However, in many missions, in principle, one can achieve similar or better performance as compared to a larger satellite using multiple small satellites flying in formation. In view of this, and also because certain missions can only be realized using multiple satellites with some minimum physical separation, an emerging trend across the globe is to have missions involving multiple small, distributed, and inexpensive satellites flying in formation to achieve common objectives.
Introduction and Motivation
Satellite Formation Flying ; Kapitel : 1 ; 1-12
2021-03-16
12 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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