Orbit Design for Thai Space Consortium Satellite

Low Earth Orbit Nano Satellite Electrical Power System Design

The following text shows the requirements for LEO satellite’s EPS design, namely the initial mission assessment, the available power budget, the filtering components sizing, the finalized circuit design and the expected efficiency for optimal operation point. One early assessment was the reliability of the photovoltaic array system in terms of how the cells should be laid out: whether in parall...

Determination of the best-fitting reference orbit for a LEO satellite using the Lagrange coefficients

Linearization of the nonlinear equations and iterative solution is the most well-known scheme in many engineering problems. For geodetic applications of the LEO satellites, e.g. the Earth’s gravity field recovery, one needs to provide an initial guess of the satellite location or the so-called reference orbit. Numerical integration can be utilized for generating the reference orbit if a satelli...

Coordinated orbit transfer for satellite clusters.

We propose a control law that allows a satellite formation to achieve orbit transfer. During the transfer, the formation can be either maintained or modified to a desired formation. Based on the orbit transfer control law proposed by Chang, Chichka, and Marsden for single satellite, we add coupling terms to the summation of Lyapunov functions for single satellites. These terms are functions of ...

State-Space Inference for Non-Linear Latent Force Models with Application to Satellite Orbit Prediction

Latent force models (LFMs) are flexible models that combine mechanistic modelling principles (i.e., physical models) with nonparametric data-driven components. Several key applications of LFMs need nonlinearities, which results in analytically intractable inference. In this work we show how non-linear LFMs can be represented as nonlinear white noise driven state-space models and present an effi...

Analytical method for determining the statistics of interference between non-geostationary-satellite orbit fixed-satellite service systems and other non-geostationary-satellite orbit fixed-satellite service systems or geostationary-satellite orbit fixed-satellite service networks