Patent Document ID: 20160009425
Application ID: 14328026
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: identifying, by a satellite constellation deployment optimization system comprising one or more processors, a first set of launch parameters and a second set of launch parameters associated with a satellite constellation comprising one or more satellites; identifying, by the satellite constellation deployment optimization system, one or more objective values for evaluating the first set of launch parameters and second set of launch parameters by applying one or more objective functions to one or more performance metrics corresponding to each of the first set of launch parameters and the second set of launch parameters; determining, by the satellite constellation deployment optimization system and based at least in part on the first set of launch parameters and the second set of launch parameters, a third set of launch parameters within a launch parameter search space; determining, by the satellite constellation deployment optimization system, motion of each of the one or more satellites of the satellite constellation according to the third set of launch parameters over a mission lifetime of the satellite constellation utilizing a high-fidelity astrodynamics propagator, wherein the motion of each of the one or more satellites of the satellite constellation is determined based at least in part on one or more orbital perturbations; generating, by the satellite constellation deployment optimization system and based at least in part on the motion of each of the one or more satellites of the satellite constellation according to the third set of launch parameters over a mission lifetime of the satellite constellation, one or more satellite constellation performance metrics for the third set of launch parameters; determining, by the satellite constellation deployment optimization system and based at least in part on the performance metrics for the third set of launch parameters and the one or more objective functions, objective values for the third set of launch parameters; determining, by the satellite constellation deployment optimization system and based at least in part on the objective values for the third set of launch parameters, that the third set of launch parameters are non-dominated; and providing, by the satellite constellation deployment optimization system and based at least in part on the determining that the third set of launch parameters are non-dominated, the third set of launch parameters as an optimized solution for the satellite constellation.