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Mission Design & Implementation of Satellite Constellations pp 275–297Cite as

Automated Station-Keeping for Satellite Constellations

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The on-orbit control of future satellite constellations poses a great challenge. New approaches are required which result in control systems that are flexible, reliable, scaleable, and efficient. Such approaches must be capable of maintaining constellation level station-keeping requirements. Autonomy is desirable to minimize the system operations center activity, and to allow rapid response to on-orbit failures. This work develops methods for the maintenance of satellite constellations that achieve some of the goals identified above. Strategies employing these methods are applied to analyze the control and coverage characteristics of the Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. EllipsoTM Constellation. The Automated Station-Keeping Simulator (ASKS), a software package developed for this project, is described.

This work was supported under the Draper Laboratory IR&D Program during DFY’s 96 and 97.

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  1. Draper Laboratory, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, USA

    N. H. Shah (2nd Lt., USAF)

  2. Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA

    R. J. Proulx (Principal Member of the Technical Staff) & B. Kantsiper Ph.D. (Draper Fellow)

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

    B. Kantsiper Ph.D. (Draper Fellow)

  4. Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA

    P. J. Cefola (Program Manager for Astrodynamics Applications, Lecturer)

  5. Constellations and Launch Vehicles, Mobile Communications Holdings, Inc., USA

    J. Draim (Vice-President)

  6. Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, USA

    P. J. Cefola (Program Manager for Astrodynamics Applications, Lecturer)

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Shah, N.H., Proulx, R.J., Kantsiper, B., Cefola, P.J., Draim, J. (1998). Automated Station-Keeping for Satellite Constellations. In: van der Ha, J.C. (eds) Mission Design & Implementation of Satellite Constellations. Space Technology Proceedings, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5088-0_26

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