Published May 18, 2011
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Swarms of Femtosats for Synthetic Aperture Applications
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Chung, Soon-Jo
- Hadaegh, F. Y.
Abstract
The Silicon Wafer Integrated Femtosatellites (SWIFT) Swarm Project presents a new paradigm-shifting definition of spacecraft technology that can enable flight of swarms of fully capable femtosats. One of the most important applications of SWIFT is a distributed aperture array. New swarm Golay array configurations are introduced and shown to dramatically increase the effective diameter derived from optical performance metrics. A system cost analysis based on this comparison justifies deploying a large number of spacecraft for sparse aperture applications.
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© 2011 California Institute of Technology. The research was carried out in part at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Government sponsorship acknowledged.Attached Files
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20170214-120751873
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