Constellation Design Drivers and Trades Mission objectives, orbit selection, and satellite design are inextricably intertwined
In this article, we discuss a new constellation design (patent pending), which we call a Waves constellation, developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to …
Unlike a single satellite, a satellite constellation is a group of artificial satellites providing global or near-global coverage.
Satellite constellations have been used for navigation and telecommunication, but not yet for atmospheric observations. The purpose of this paper is to describe a constellation of satellites …
201 Arnas et al. (2017a) proposes a satellite constellation design based on the 202 idea of defining a series of space-tracks (or relative trajectories) where all the 203 satellites of the …
NewSpace Index has tracked commercial constellations since 2016 and is the largest known public database. There were 411 entries by September 2024, 160 more since the last …
Two types of constellations are addressed here: large number of low earth orbiting satellites to cover the globe and groups of geosynchronous satellites. The historical way to get wide area …