Constellation design

Turning a coverage requirement into a set of orbital planes.

Scope

• Walker constellations and streets-of-coverage designs
• Coverage, revisit and availability requirements
• Plane count, phasing and inter-plane spacing
• Launch, replenishment and disposal strategy
• Capacity and cost modeling

Notes

Nothing written here yet. Working notes go in Research and Learning Lab; anything that becomes durable is promoted onto this page.

References

To be added as the topic is worked through.