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Linking Satellites Via Earth "Hot Spots" and the Internet to Form Ad Hoc ConstellationsAs more assets are placed in orbit, opportunities emerge to combine various sets of satellites in temporary constellations to perform collaborative image collections. Often, new operations concepts for a satellite or set of satellites emerge after launch. To the degree with which new space assets can be inexpensively and rapidly integrated into temporary or "ad hoc" constellations, will determine whether these new ideas will be implemented or not. On the Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) satellite, a New Millennium Program mission, a number of experiments were conducted and are being conducted to demonstrate various aspects of an architecture that, when taken as a whole, will enable progressive mission autonomy. In particular, the target architecture will use adaptive ground antenna arrays to form, as close as possible, the equivalent of wireless access points for low earth orbiting satellites. Coupled with various ground and flight software and the Internet. the architecture enables progressive mission autonomy. Thus, new collaborative sensing techniques can be implemented post-launch. This paper will outline the overall operations concept and highlight details of both the research effort being conducted in
Document ID
20050156653
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Mandl, Dan
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Frye, Stu
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Grosvenor, Sandra
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Ingram, Mary Ann
(Georgia Inst. of Tech. Atlanta, GA, United States)
Langley, John
(Saquish Group Half Moon Bay, CA, United States)
Miranda, Felix
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Lee, Richard Q.
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Romanofsky, Robert
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Zaman, Afoz
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Popovic, Zoya
(Saquish Group Half Moon Bay, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command And Tracking
Meeting Information
Meeting: SPIE 2004
Location: Honolulu, HI
Country: United States
Start Date: November 8, 2004
End Date: November 12, 2004
Sponsors: International Society for Optical Engineering
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