2024/10/04 by Soobin Jeon, Sang‐Young Park, Jeon, Soobin +1
Engineering · #FOS: Electrical engineering #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Satellite Communication Systems #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #Space Physics (physics.space-ph) #Space Satellite Systems and Control #Spacecraft Design and Technology #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2410.03354
openalex publication_date 2024/10/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The recent advancement in research on distributed space systems that operate a large number of satellites as a single system urges the need for the investigation of satellite constellations. Communication constellations can be used to construct global or regional communication networks using inter-satellite and ground-to-satellite links. This study examines two challenges of communication constellations: continuous coverage and inter-satellite link connectivity. The bounded Voronoi diagram and APC decomposition are presented as continuous coverage analysis methods. For continuity analysis of the inter-satellite link, the relative motion between adjacent orbital planes is used to derive analytic solutions. The Walker-Delta constellation and common ground-track constellation design methods are introduced as examples to verify the analysis methods. The common ground-track constellations are classified into quasi-symmetric and optimal constellations. The optimal common ground-track constellation is optimized using the BILP algorithm. The simulation results compare the performance of the communication constellations according to various design methods.