Deployment control system for spacecraft having to fly in formation using simultaneous high precision determination of their positions

摘要

The system has a calculation module (MC1) determining operations, intended to position each of reference and follower space vehicles (ES1, ES2) at a chosen instant in a chosen position with respect to a reference path (TR), based on orbital positions of the vehicles by considering a time law of the reference vehicle for placing a formation in a chosen configuration. Calculation units (MC21, MC22) communicate anti-collision operations, determined when a risk of collision of one vehicle with the other vehicle exceeds a chosen value, with orbit correction modules (MCO1, MCO2).