2021/10/15 by David Arnas, Richard Linares, Arnas, David +1
Engineering · #Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) #FOS: Physical sciences #Satellite Communication Systems #Space Satellite Systems and Control #Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2110.07817
openalex publication_date 2021/10/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This work focuses on the study of the reconfiguration strategies available for uniformly distributed satellite constellations and slotting architectures. Particularly, this manuscript deals with the cases of reducing, maintaining, and also increasing the number of available positions for satellites in the space structure, and takes into account the potential minimum distances between spacecraft in the configuration to assure the safety of the system. To that end, several approaches to solve the reconfiguration problem are presented based on the properties of Flower Constellations, and more particularly, on the properties of uniformity and symmetries present in these uniform distributions.