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Testing Spacecraft Formation Flying with Crazyflie Drones as Satellite Surrogates
Arturo de la Barcena, Collin Rhodes, John McCarroll, Marzia Cescon, Kerianne L. Hobbs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14750

Testing Spacecraft Formation Flying with Crazyflie Drones as Satellite Surrogates
As the space domain becomes increasingly congested, autonomy is proposed as one approach to enable small numbers of human ground operators to manage large constellations of satellites and tackle more complex missions such as on-orbit or in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing. One of the biggest challenges in developing novel spacecraft autonomy is mechanisms to test and evaluate their performance. Testing spacecraft autonomy on-orbit can be high risk and prohibitively expensive. An alt…

Testing Spacecraft Formation Flying with Crazyflie Drones as Satellite Surrogates
Arturo de la Barcena, Collin Rhodes, John McCarroll, Marzia Cescon, Kerianne L. Hobbs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14750

Testing Spacecraft Formation Flying with Crazyflie Drones as Satellite Surrogates
As the space domain becomes increasingly congested, autonomy is proposed as one approach to enable small numbers of human ground operators to manage large constellations of satellites and tackle more complex missions such as on-orbit or in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing. One of the biggest challenges in developing novel spacecraft autonomy is mechanisms to test and evaluate their performance. Testing spacecraft autonomy on-orbit can be high risk and prohibitively expensive. An alt…