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Current space telescopes have a single structure, and consequently, their focal length cannot be increased sufficiently. Sometimes, this problem may prevent the improvement of the resolution of the telescope. To solve this problem, the concept of virtual telescope has been proposed. A virtual telescope consists of two spacecraft: one has a lens system and the other has a detector system. By using formation flying, the two spacecraft can be simplified as a virtual telescope system. Then, their relative orbit distance can serve as a baseline for the virtual telescope system [1, 2]. The most important issue in a virtual telescope is to perform inertial alignment with respect to a celestial object and to maintain it in space. Inertial alignment means that the relative position and relative attitude of the two spacecraft are simultaneously aligned with a target.
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This study was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea through the Space Core Technology Development Program funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning (2013M1A3A3A02042448).
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Park, JP. et al. (2017). CANYVAL-X Mission Development Using CubeSats. In: Cruzen, C., Schmidhuber, M., Lee, Y., Kim, B. (eds) Space Operations: Contributions from the Global Community. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51941-8_30
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