The Aerospace Corporation

Marc David DiPrinzio

Timothy Guy Thompson

Matthew Phillip Ferringer

Ronald Scott Clifton

Systems and methods are provided to determine launch parameters of satellites of a satellite constellation that provides optimized performance of the satellite constellation over the service lifetime of the satellite constellation. The launch parameters may be determined by considering perturbing accelerations of one or more of the satellites for the purposes of optimizing the launch parameters of the satellites of the satellite constellation. The systems and methods may include heuristic optimization and high-fidelity astrodynamic modeling methodologies.

Systems and methods for optimizing satellite constellation deployment

Embodiments of the invention may provide systems and methods for supporting restricted search capabilities in high-dimensional spaces. These example restricted search capabilities may allow for an unbiased search that is simply restricted to those regions of interest to a decision maker. It will be appreciated that a restricted search does not mean that additional constraints, such as preference or biasing information, are utilized to reduce the search space into some feasible sub-space of the original optimization problem. Instead, the example restricted search may limit the search to a certain sub-space of the full multi-dimensional tradeoff space.

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South Riding, VA, United States of America

Marc David DiPrinzio