Satellite formations probably will never completely replace big birds, Carpenter says
BYE BYE, BIG BIRD?: Although formation flight techniques for satellites could allow cooperative microsatellites to take over many functions of today's large satellites, there likely will always be a market need for "big birds," according to Russell Carpenter, lead flight dynamics and navigation...
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