Ehsan Mousivand; Sajjad Ghazanfarinia; Yaser Saffar; Masoud Khoshsima
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Satellite Constellations are the new approach to achieve the applications that were presumably expected from large and complex satellites. This paper reviews activities and related satellite constellation of about 130 companies and research institutes, showing that Communication Missions (Internet of ...
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Satellite Constellations are the new approach to achieve the applications that were presumably expected from large and complex satellites. This paper reviews activities and related satellite constellation of about 130 companies and research institutes, showing that Communication Missions (Internet of Things and Machine to Machine Services) are the most desirable for Constellations with 27% of all. Earth Observation constellations are in the next rank with 19%. The most favorite configuration in Constellations is based on Microsatellites with 42%, out of which Cubesats are of more interest. The research is going to present the role of Cubesats with some statistical analysis to show how these Space Systems may affect the future of Space Industry and Economy with Solutions based on Constellations. Results discuss the Future of Constellations and Cubesats and their common effect on New Space both in Space Industry Level and Space Economy. This review may help researchers to work on similar studies with business approaches, too.
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Sajjad Ghazanfarinia; Ehsan Mousivand; Masoud Khoshsima; Yaser Saffar
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This research is going to present design of a LEO Constellation for Navigation service with minimum number of Satellites. The goal is to achieve Dilution Of Precision (DOP) less than 6. This Requirement is going to be achieved using predefined launch vehicles limitation on orbit which is 500 km in circular ...
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This research is going to present design of a LEO Constellation for Navigation service with minimum number of Satellites. The goal is to achieve Dilution Of Precision (DOP) less than 6. This Requirement is going to be achieved using predefined launch vehicles limitation on orbit which is 500 km in circular orbit altitude and 55 degrees for orbit inclination. Design has been done based on Analyses resulting in Optimization for least number of Satellites in this orbit, to satisfy all requirements for Navigation Performance and in conformance with the constraints related to launch and orbit. Multiple analyses have been done resulted in Constellation with 324 satellites, formed in 18 Orbits with 18 Satellites in each. This design shows the performance of 4.7 in DOP for a User located in Tehran, however, the distribution of DOP over the target area shows that the requirement has been passed through the whole region.
