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Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, 2007
The paper deals with on-board planning for a satellite swarm via communication and negotiation. We aim at defining individual behaviours that result in a global behaviour that meets the mission requirements. We will present the formalization of the problem, a communication protocol, a solving method based on reactive decision rules, and first results.
Grégory Bonnet, Catherine Tessier
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On the origin of satellite swarms

Acta Astronautica, 2011
For a species to develop in nature basically two things are needed: an enabling technology and a ‘‘niche’’. In spacecraft design the story is the same. Both a suitable technology and a niche application need to be there before a new generation of spacecraft can be developed.
Verhoeven, C.J.M. +4 more
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On the reliability, availability, and throughput of satellite swarms

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2014
Based on the opportunities and gained reputation of individual nanosatellites, a larger number of identical nanosatellites may, in the future, build up a spacecraft swarm for applications, such as multipoint sensing, virtual instruments, or enhanced communication.
Steven Engelen +2 more
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A satellite swarm for radio astronomy

Acta Astronautica, 2014
Abstract At present the celestial sky has been mapped in considerable detail for every major wavelength band, except for the ultra-long radiowave band. A space-based interferometer consisting of a swarm of satellites would make it possible to map the celestial sources of 0.1–10 MHz radiation.
E. Dekens, S. Engelen, R. Noomen
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