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Flower constellation have been proposed as a new facility to manage multiple satellite deployment. The number of possible configurations is very wide, according to specific requirements, and has been presented in previous papers. The present paper addresses the concept of the reconfiguration of a satellite set from a flower constellation said A to a flower constellation said B. No initial assumptions...
Since ancient times explaining the motion of celestial bodies has been a must and a challenge for scientists. Many people in history, from Ptolomaeus to Copernicus, from Brahe to Kepler, from Galileo to Newton up to Lagrange and Einstein, have investigated the motion of planets, giving birth to celestial mechanics. Orbital mechanics is based on the same laws applied to artificial satellites and is...
Orbital pushing is going to be an important task to plan, due to the increase of shared or piggyback launches that imply the release of small satellites in orbits different from the final one. Due to launch failures or to changes in the services to supply while operating, orbital reconfigurations could be considered an added value if they can be performed avoiding a considerable consumption of fuel...
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