A space vehicle competition management system includes an orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) and a control unit. The OTV is configured to retain space vehicles (SVs) while the OTV transfers the SVs from an initial altitude of a launch vehicle to a desired altitude, and deploy the plurality of SVs at a series of offset locations and respective times representing starting points of the competition. Furthermore, the control unit is configured to receive signals indicative of waypoint arrival times for one or more of the SVs at one or more waypoints along a course of the competition, and compute one or more metrics indicative of relative performance of the plurality of SVs in the competition.


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    Title :

    Orbital Satellite Racing



    Publication date :

    2024-01-25


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS



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