Abstract:The main goal of the present paper is to show how to form a constellation of small satellites when all small satellites leave from a larger spacecraft. It is assumed that they will all stay in a planar formation, in the same orbital plane of the mother spacecraft, just dispersed in terms of mean anomaly. Initially, it is considered that the larger satellite orbits the Earth in an almost circular orbit with 2000 km of altitude. Then, a search for initial conditions of the small satellite is performed to find th… Show more
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