Date of Award
5-2012
Degree Name
MS in Aerospace Engineering
Department
Aerospace Engineering
Advisor
Kira Abercromby
Abstract
Space debris growth and an influx in space traffic will create a need for increased space traffic management. Due to orbital population density and likely future growth, the implementation of a slot architecture to Sun-synchronous orbit is considered in order to mitigate conjunctions among active satellites. This paper furthers work done in Sun-synchronous orbit slot architecture design and focuses on two main aspects. First, an in-depth relative motion analysis of satellites with respect to their assigned slots is presented. Then, a method for developing a slot architecture from a specific set of user defined inputs is derived.
URL: http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/760
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