Satellites constellations and formations are becoming a growing segment of the space market due to numerous possibilities to provide new, effective commercial and scientific services and applications. Satellite constellations offer a base for communication, monitoring, and navigation services, while satellite formations tie into the move towards disaggregated satellite design. The unique and novel characteristics of these satellite systems require solutions to new problems of classical spaceflight dynamics disciplines like orbital mechanics, attitude control, guidance and navigation, and trigger innovative ideas in the design and optimisation domains.
Authors are invited to submit papers on one or more of the following topics:
- Lessons Learnt from Past and Current Missions
- New Mission Concepts
- Mission Analysis and Design
- Deployment and Maintenance
- Guidance, Navigation, and Control
- Services and Operations
- Simulation and Optimisation
- Instrumentation and Sensors for Formation Flying
- Swarming
- AI and Autonomy
- Space Traffic Management
- Mega Constellations
- Federated Satellite Systems
- Space Environment and Sustainability