Satellite formation resizing and reconfiguration can be reduced as the optimization problem of transferring a satellite from one formation to another. In this paper, a hybrid method of using the primer vector is proposed for solving this problem. In this method, the nonlinear calculus of variation (COV) based primer vector optimization is incorporated with the linear algebra based primer vector optimization, in which the linear solution can be regarded as initial guess for the nonlinear COV based optimization. Numerical test shows that this hybrid method is extremely fast and accurate.
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