Current interest in spacecraft constellations for government and commercial uses continues to drive advancement in sophistication, capability, and mission complexity. As these systems proliferate, they require increased levels of automation to properly orchestrate in achieving the mission objectives. This paper develops a constellation planning capability for cross-link enabled Geospatial Intelligence missions. The planning for constellation coordination is performed using a two-level network flow approach, where the first level creates a communication plan, and the second layer determines the Earth sensing activities. A network flow method is used to simultaneously obtain a schedule for each unique satellite within the constellation and provides an optimal operational schedule for the entire cooperative system.

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一种支持交联的地球传感卫星星座的任务规划方法

当前对政府和商业用途的航天器星座的兴趣继续推动着复杂性、能力和任务复杂性的进步。随着这些系统的激增，它们需要提高自动化水平，以便正确协调以实现任务目标。本文开发了一种用于支持交叉链接的地理空间情报任务的星座规划功能。星座协调的规划是使用双层网络流方法执行的，其中第一层创建通信计划，第二层确定地球传感活动。采用网络流方法同时获取星座内每颗独特卫星的调度表，并为整个协作系统提供最佳运行调度表。