Towards an Empirical Measure of Spacecraft Innovation: The Case of Communication Satellites
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ing system functionality in this way has been shown to allow the conceptual designs for thousands of competing communication satellite constellation architectures to be compared directly.[23] Although the definition is clearly linked to technical functionality, the abstraction is in terms of value delivered to the user. For example, in
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