NECKLACE THEORY ON FLOWER CONSTELLATIONS Conference Paper

abstract

• Theory of Flower Constellations has been improved with the 2-D and 3-D Lattice Flower Constellations. However, placing a satellite in each admissible location is not an optimal way to design a constellation. The necklace theory considers constellations whose satellites are subsets of the satellites of a Lattice Flower Constellation, keeping all its symmetries, in order to reduce the cost of the mission. Mathematically, these subsets are parameterized by necklaces (describing which satellites in the first orbit of the underlying constellation we keep), and a shifting parameter that controls the phasing between subsequent orbits.

authors

• Mortari, Daniele

published proceedings

• SPACEFLIGHT MECHANICS 2011, PTS I-III

author list (cited authors)

• Casanova, D., Avendano, M., & Mortari, D.

complete list of authors

• Casanova, Daniel||Avendano, Martin||Mortari, Daniele

publication date

• October 2011

published in

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

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 978-0-87703-569-5

start page

• 1791

end page

• +

volume

• 140