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WU S F,WANG W,WEN J F,et al. Review on development of LEO Internet constellation[J]. Journal of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,2024,50(1):1-11 (in Chinese) doi: 10.13700/j.bh.1001-5965.2022.0242
Citation: WU S F,WANG W,WEN J F,et al. Review on development of LEO Internet constellation[J]. Journal of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,2024,50(1):1-11 (in Chinese) doi: 10.13700/j.bh.1001-5965.2022.0242

Review on development of LEO Internet constellation

doi: 10.13700/j.bh.1001-5965.2022.0242
Funds:  National Natural Science Foundation of China (11902175,U20B2056)
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  • Corresponding author: E-mail:wangwei215661@sjtu.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 11 Apr 2022
  • Accepted Date: 11 Aug 2022
  • Available Online: 19 Aug 2022
  • Publish Date: 19 Aug 2022
  • In recent years, several innovative enterprises like SpaceX and OneWeb have initiated the LEO Internet constellations. Therefore, recognizing its importance to the internet usersis meaningful to review the state-of-the-art technologies and the relevant challenges. In this review, three representative LEO Internet constellation plans (Starlink, OneWeb, Lightspeed) and the latest development in China are firstly introduced. Then, according to the characteristics of LEO Internet constellations, five major challenges of the LEO Internet constellations are analyzed, i.e., prediction of relative motion evolution of constellation, autonomous navigation and orbiting of constellation, path planning for constellation configuration reconstruction, constellation self-organizing collaborative configuration control, constellation communication and network services. Finally, some suggestions are provided for the development of LEO Internet constellation in China.

     

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