What is it about?
This publication explains how to optimally release a picosatellite from a mother satellite to establish a bounded safe formation in low Earth orbit
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Why is it important?
This issue has not been addressed in literature so far because nanosatellites are typically deployed from the upper stage of a launch vehicle or from the international space station with the goal of getting as far as possible from them to reduce collision risk
Perspectives
This work shows the potential of the relative eccentricity/inclination vector separation method in the context of formation-flying and on-orbit servicing
Prof Simone D'Amico
Stanford University
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This page is a summary of: Safe Picosatellite Release from a Small Satellite Carrier, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, September 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/1.a33036.
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