Abstract; A deployment algorithm that populate a group of companion satellites around a center satellite, and a control algorithm for maintaining the companion satellites in close formation around the center satellite.
Keywords: satellite, cubesat, constellation
International Class: B64G 1/10 (20060101), B64G 1/24 (20060101), B64G 1/26 (20060101), B64G 1/40 (20060101), B64G 3/00 (20060101)