Technology
In the realm of space servicing missions, Precision Inspection serves a paramount role: to safely approach a client satellite and meticulously inspect it within a stable orbit before executing the final proximity maneuver. Our Formation Flying services, underpinned by this objective, prioritize synchronized movement and positioning of spacecraft.
Precise Formation Flight: Leveraging advanced optimization-based techniques to ensure synchronized and accurate positioning of spacecraft, fundamental for successful inspection and subsequent maneuvers.
Fuel Efficiency: We maximize fuel economy while ensuring seamless coordination between spacecraft via embedded optimization.
Versatile Orbit Capabilities: Whether in circular or elliptic orbits, our expertise guarantees robust formation flying solutions tailored to diverse mission requirements.
1-Precision Inspection and Formation Flying
Navigating through space becomes particularly challenging when faced with the intricate operations of rendezvous and docking. Our expertise lies in executing these maneuvers within the intricate web of constraints, ensuring mission safety, efficiency, and robustness even in the face of uncertainties and potential failures.
Constraints Handling: Managing a myriad of factors, from internal dynamics to external variables, ensuring a successful rendezvous and docking process.
Onboard Implementation: Leveraging advanced onboard systems that autonomously adapt to real-time challenges throughout the mission.
Robustness Assurance: Ensuring resilience to various uncertainties, from sensor and actuator failures to challenges like multiple thrusters, dynamic changes, and external disturbances.
2- Constrained Spacecraft Rendezvous and Docking
In space, the need for meticulous path planning and precise maneuvers becomes paramount. Ensuring our target remains firmly within our sensors' field of view while simultaneously sidestepping harmful sources such as the sun is both a challenge and a necessity. Our services are finely tuned to address these intricacies, offering unparalleled expertise in crafting paths that balance mission objectives with operational constraints.
Dynamic Nonconvexity Handling: We employ advanced techniques to convexify traditionally nonconvex keep-out zones, enabling real-time solution tractability and navigation within complex environments.
Sensor-Specific Solutions: Our approach respects the operational boundaries of sensors, both in terms of their field of view and sensitivities to external light sources, ensuring safety and maximum data collection efficiency.
Keep-Out-Zone: Specialized algorithms are incorporated to prevent interference from powerful external light sources, like the sun, safeguarding sensor functionality and performance.
3-Realtime Attitude Path Planning with Keep Out Zone & Sensor Constraints
Crafting the roadmap for interplanetary travel requires a blend of deep celestial understanding and optimization finesse. With capabilities spanning from handling complex nonconvex constraints to modeling diverse propulsion systems, we ensure your spacecraft's trajectory between celestial bodies is not only feasible but perfectly tuned to your mission's needs.
Complex Constraint Handling: Efficiently managing various nonconvex constraints, guaranteeing a trajectory that is both optimal and achievable.
Diverse Propulsion Modeling: Seamlessly integrating models for both low thrust (electric propulsion) and chemical thrusters, ensuring the trajectory aligns with the propulsion system in use.
Custom Optimization Techniques: Offering a range of optimization tools, from global optimizers like genetic algorithms to local nonlinear optimizers, tailored to client specifications and mission objectives.
