Designing Satellite Constellations for Partial Coverage

This paper mainly discusses how to design a regional constellation by MEO satellites. Firstly, it addresses that the LEO satellite constellation is not good enough for designing partial coverage satellite system. Then the method of designing regional constellations with an MEO satellite chain is introduced, including how to compute and optimize constellation parameter. Two regional constellations are given with their coverage capability. At last, partial coverage constellation is compared with Rosette constellation. The regional constellations are suitable to China.