随着信息技术与小型化技术的飞速发展与应用,小卫星编队飞行使航天领域出现了新的生机。小卫星有研制周期短、成本低、抗摧毁能力强等优点。通过多颗小卫星编队可以实现与一颗大卫星相媲美的功能,并且可广泛应用于三维立体成像,地面运动目标检测,导航定位等领域。因此,在对基于STK的小卫星编队飞行机理研究的基础上,设计了几种编队模式并进行了仿真研究。
Along with rapid development and the application of the information technology and the miniaturized technology,the small satellite formation flying caused astronautics domain to present the new vitality.The small satellite has advantage of short development cycle,low-cost,survivable,and so on.Formation through many small satellites can be achieved with a comparable function of a big satellite,and could be widely used in three-dimensional imaging,the ground moving target detection,navigation positioning and other fields.Therefore,the foundation of small satellite formation flying mechanism research based on STK,has designed several kind of formation flying pattern and has conducted the simulation research.