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3rd International Symposium on Formation Flying, Missions and Technologies

TOPICS

The following topics are planned to be covered at the symposium, but those relevant but not listed may be accepted as well. Only new research with respect to the content of the previous symposium will be accepted.
  • Description of planned or approved missions (applications, design, program aspects, etc.)
  • Lessons learned from missions currently operating
  • New mission concepts
  • Technologies and design of distributed sensors
  • Platform technologies (propulsion, power supply, attitude, ranging, etc.)
  • Launchers (impacts on formation and satellite design, formation launching, etc.)
  • Inter-satellite links (ISL), distributed processing
  • Orbit design and trajectories
  • Guidance, Navigation and Control systems
  • Operations, mission planning
  • Design and simulation tools for involved fields
  • Testing and launch preparations
  • Regulatory issues (space debris, ISL frequencies, etc.)
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