ROTATING SYMMETRIES IN SPACE: THE FLOWER CONSTELLATIONS Conference Paper

abstract

• Flower Constellations is a novel methodology to design axial-symmetric satellite constellations whose satellites all belong to the same closed trajectory in a prescribed rotating reference frame. These constellations highlight the existence of new, unexpected, shape-preserving rigid-body objects rotating with specific angular velocities. In this paper, the fundamentals of Flower Constellations theory is revisited in a very general way and new important parameters, such as the "Flower Mean Anom aly" and the "Configuration Number," are derived to classify and describe the Flower Constellations.

authors

• Mortari, Daniele

published proceedings

• SPACEFLIGHT MECHANICS 2009, VOL 134, PTS I-III

author list (cited authors)

• Avendano, M., & Mortari, D.

complete list of authors

• Avendano, Martin||Mortari, Daniele

publication date

• December 2009

published in

• Spaceflight Mechanics 2005, Vol 120, Pts 1 and 2  Journal

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 978-0-87703-554-1

start page

• 1315

end page

• +

volume

• 134