The trend to develop small, low-cost spacecraft has
led many to recognize the advantage of flying
multiple spacecraft in formation to achieve the
correlated instrument measurements formerly possible
only by flying many instruments on a single, large
platform. This book explores the techniques for
station keeping an orbiting constellation of
satellites in an elliptical orbit after the initial
deployment is developed. Constellation station
keeping were investigated by: implementing various
propulsive maneuvers at different times based on
Lagranges planetary equations for...