Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Slotting: Towards an Implementable Proposal

The growth in the number of proposed low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites is driven primarily by large commercial communications constellations. The launch of even half of the proposed satellites would result in an order-of-magnitude increase in active spacecraft traffic, with significant implications f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lifson, Miles
Other Authors: Linares, Richard
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155421