Extension of the GMAT analysis report to the formation with both CubeSats

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Dupont, Agathe
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Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics was established in 1931, with a name change in 1962 to the School of Aerospace Engineering
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This study is part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored VISORS (Virtual Super-resolution Optics with Reconfigurable Swarms) space physics mission project. The goal of the mission is to detect and study fundamental regions of energy release in the solar corona. The mission engages a formation of two flying 6U CubeSats. One of the spacecrafts will support the optical package for observation while the second will contain the detection instrument. The simulation of the spacecrafts' trajectory is an essential step in the development of the mission. This study allows to verify the theoretical training trajectory and to ensure the reliability of the mission. More particularly, we verify the behavior of both CubeSats from one relative to the other and their trajectory in the different possible configurations. We will also analyze the power generation and the influence of the RAAN parameter. The last point consists in evaluating the duration of antennas contact between both spacecrafts. Both configurations considered correspond to the two possible orbits of the mission: a standby orbit and a science orbit for observation. Results will allow to obtain a precise analysis of the objectives of the mission in terms of feasibility and will allow some adjustments of the parameters studied to date. This report is based on the work of the Georgia Tech team and the other participating universities. The work and the code used for this study is based on a development made by Antoine Paletta for a single CubeSat of the formation. The results obtained are in line with the continuity of the VISORS project whose work is becoming more precise for a launch of the mission planned in 2024
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2002-06
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