Mlesd Swarming in System Design 16sg8 ESD.77 A space system in formation flying combines data from several spacecraft rather than flying all the instruments on one costly satellite It also allows for the collection of data unavailable from a single satellite, such as stereo views or simultaneously collecting data of the same ground scene at different angles Formation flying enables paired scene comparison between data from Landsat-7 and EO-1 ImagetakenfromNasa'Swebsitehttp://www.nasa.gov ⊙ Rania hassan3/2004 Engineering Systems Division -Massachusetts Institute of Technology7 © Rania Hassan 3/2004 Engineering Systems Division - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Swarming in System Design Swarming in System Design • A space system in formation flying combines data from several spacecraft rather than flying all the instruments on one costly satellite. • It also allows for the collection of data unavailable from a single satellite, such as stereo views or simultaneously collecting data of the same ground scene at different angles. Image taken from NASA's website. http://www.nasa.gov