Recommendations for Future Work

Future work should involve further development of the propulsion module and the ADC method. Specifically:

• Incorporation of a detailed power budget in the thruster allocation. • Investigation of additional electric propulsion options.

• Investigation and comparison of alternative control algorithms.

• Development of trade studies to address fuel consumption and time required of maneuvers using various control methods, over longer mission times and under a more expanded set of scenarios.

• Consideration for both attitude and orbital control with the µPPT module which involves new thruster arrangements and development of different control algorithms and allocation methods as the system may be under-actuated.

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