Autonomous Mission Planning for OLFAR: A Satellite Swarm in Lunar Orbit for Radio Astronomy

Orbiting Low Frequency Array for Radio Astronomy (OLFAR) is a radio astronomy mission that has been studied since 2010 by several Dutch universities and research institutes. The mission aims at producing sky maps by collecting cosmic signals at ultra-low wavelengths regimes, below the 30 MHz frequency band. A satellite swarm comprising more than...

In-Plane Formation Reconfiguration with Radial Maneuvers (vol 43, pg 1881, 2020): In-Plane Formation Reconfiguration with Radial Maneuvers

In the original article [https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G004933], the fifth element of the relative orbit elements (ROE) vector should be δiy, the y component of the relative inclination vector. Therefore: The correct notation for Eq. (1) is. (Formula presented).

Lunar Orbit Design of a Satellite Swarm for Radio Astronomy

Employing a satellite swarm for radio astronomy has been continuously addressed in the Orbiting Low Frequency ARray (OLFAR) project. A 100 km diameter of aperture array constructed by distributed satellites will be able to provide sky maps of better than 1 arc-minute spatial resolution at 10 MHz. However, an orbit design strategy for the...

In-plane formation reconfiguration with radial maneuvers

Formation reconfiguration with impulsive maneuvers has been continuously addressed in recent decades. The studies mostly focused on in-plane formation reconfiguration since the out-of-plane motion is independently controlled by a single burn. Most in-plane reconfiguration studies, meanwhile, rely on tangential maneuvers because of fuel...