Articles tagged: formation flying technologies

• January 2019 Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying

  ... for safe modes. During one orbit the formation is broken and rebuilt to perform precise formation flying during apogee. Formation flying technologies A broad range of novel technologies are embarked on Proba-3, including metrology equipment, control...

  • ESA
  • externally occulted coronagraph
  • formation flying technologies
  • Proba-3
  Authors: Agnes Mestreau-Garreau     Damien Galano     Karim Mellab     Luis F Peñin     Victor Marco Gomez    
• 10 January 2019 Successful launch of formation-flying microsatellite constellation

  ... control with smaller satellites in the 2014 Canadian CanX-4/CanX-5 mission. “We have developed compact, low-cost formation flying technology that no other small satellite developer can credibly offer,” said SFL Director Dr. Robert E. Zee. Precise...

  • Deep Space Industries
  • formation-flying satellites
  • HawkEye 360
  • microsatellite
  • Space Flight Laboratory