B. Pontet

On the Optimal Number of Relays for Nanosatellite Swarm Downlink under Ground Station Reconfiguration Overhead

Advances in satellite miniaturization and launch cost reduction have enabled the deployment of increasingly large nanosatellite swarms in Low Earth Orbit. However, the ground infrastructure supporting these missions has not evolved at the same pace: many operators rely on a single ground station that can serve only one...