Assume somebody has thought about sticking 'em at lagrange points.
They'll stay there, and could survey some of the asteroids that also
hang in the vicinity. Some of them are quite large.
Could also set the craft themselves to orbit the lagrange points.
Since those are 'tadpole' orbits, at, say, L4, they'd cover more
territory. How you'd do comm between cheapsats at those
distances....maybe launch at intervals and let each one relay
signals between the earlier and later-launched guys.
I was thinking earlier that there's the possibility for very long
baseline interferometry, so there's an avenue for cooperation.
9000 near earth asteroids so far - a lot to see.
On 4/25/12 9:40 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Interesting .. a swarm of 16 or more space explorers. Wow!
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