Fig. 7.
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Life cycle diagram for all spacecraft, showing that the six spacecraft are not launched simultaneously but in two sets of three, at different launch dates. The differences in cruise duration for individual spacecraft (e.g. Spacecraft 2 compared to Spacecraft 1) are required for the 60° spacecraft separation. The spacecraft numbering refers to the numbering introduced in Figure 1.
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