Starling1 - Mission Technologies Overview

Cannon, Howard ; Sanchez, Hugo S ; Mcintosh, Dawn M

关键词: SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS;    NANOSATELLITES;    MISSION PLANNING;    FORMATION FLYING;    SMALL SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY;    SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;    STATIONKEEPING;   

RP-ID  :  ARC-E-DAA-TN59780

学科分类：航空航天科学

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来源: NASA Technical Reports Server

【 摘 要 】

The Starling series of demonstration missions will test technologies required to achieve affordable, distributed spacecraft ("swarm") missions that: are scalable to at least 100 spacecraft for applications that include synchronized multipoint measurements; involve closely coordinated ensembles of two or more spacecraft operating as a single unit for interferometric, synthetic aperture, or similar sensor architectures; or use autonomous or semi-autonomous operation of multiple spacecraft functioning as a unit to achieve science or other mission objectives with low-cost small spacecraft.Starling1 will focus on developing technologies that enable scalability and deep space application. The mission goals include the demonstration of a Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET) through an in-space communication experiment, vision based relative navigation through the Starling Formation-flying Optical eXperiment (StarFOX), and demonstration of autonomous spacecraft reconfiguration using technologies developed by the Distributed System Autonomy (DSA) project.