While past flight projects involved a single spacecraft in isolation, over forty proposed future missions involve multiple coordinated spacecraft. This paper presents characteristics of such missions in terms of properties of the phenomena being measured as well as the rationale for using multiple spacecraft. We describe the coordination problems associated with operating these missions and identify needed technologies.


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    Title :

    Coordination challenges for autonomous spacecraft


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2002 Workshop on Multiagent System Problem Spaces


    Publication date :

    2002-07-15


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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