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Publication
AIAA Space Conference 2008
Conference paper
The pleiades fractionated space system architecture and the future of national security space
Abstract
Our paper is the first in a series of publications to document the development of a fractionated space system. We explain the derivation of the technical approach for system development and present the preliminary architecture. We will publish future papers following the PDR, CDR, and flight demonstration.