Session
Technical Poster Session 1
Location
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Abstract
In this new age of cislunar competition for attaining the optimal solutions for Earth and the Moon, NewSpace stakeholders have leaned toward sustainable operations. Both industry and academia play major roles in this era of challenging space survival with the growing number of missions and debris. This paper focuses on scaling and optimizing small satellite ( < 500 kilograms) constellations and utilizing them in cislunar space by evaluating earth observation missions’ constellations for support in Artemis-2-like missions for Lunar orbits. From an astrodynamics point of view, a significant amount of scaling of constellations is done by identifying the parameters affecting the performance, which are mission-specific to their environments with fewer satellites. A detailed parametric analysis of medium-sized constellations, operable in cislunar space, for critical applications like communication (Lunar region) and disaster management (Earth region) is presented. Literature, related dynamics, discussions of the possible futuristic scenarios, discussions, and conclusions are explored.
Parametric Assessment to Fully Deploy Autonomous Small Satellite Constellations for Cislunar Space
Utah State University, Logan, UT
In this new age of cislunar competition for attaining the optimal solutions for Earth and the Moon, NewSpace stakeholders have leaned toward sustainable operations. Both industry and academia play major roles in this era of challenging space survival with the growing number of missions and debris. This paper focuses on scaling and optimizing small satellite ( < 500 kilograms) constellations and utilizing them in cislunar space by evaluating earth observation missions’ constellations for support in Artemis-2-like missions for Lunar orbits. From an astrodynamics point of view, a significant amount of scaling of constellations is done by identifying the parameters affecting the performance, which are mission-specific to their environments with fewer satellites. A detailed parametric analysis of medium-sized constellations, operable in cislunar space, for critical applications like communication (Lunar region) and disaster management (Earth region) is presented. Literature, related dynamics, discussions of the possible futuristic scenarios, discussions, and conclusions are explored.
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