Uniformly distributed Flower Constellation design study for global navigation system Conference Paper

abstract

• The recently developed Flower Constellations have the satellites following the same relative trajectory with respect to an Earth rotating reference frame. This allows you to design an approximate uniform relative trajectory over the region of interest (which can be global) and uniformly distribute in time the satellites along the relative trajectory. Based on this idea, a new constellation of 30 satellites is here proposed, designed, and compared with the existing GPS and GLONASS constellation and the proposed European Galileo constellation. The proposed solution presents better characteristics in terms of attitude and position errors.

authors

• Mortari, Daniele

published proceedings

• Spaceflight Mechanics 2004, Vol 119, Pt 1-3

author list (cited authors)

• Park, K., Wilkins, M. P., & Mortari, D.

complete list of authors

• Park, K||Wilkins, MP||Mortari, D

publication date

• August 2005

published in

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

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 0-87703-515-6

start page

• 3127

end page

• 3139

volume

• 119

issue

• SUPPL.