The orbital design of this satellite system consists of 6 Geostationary Mars Orbit (GMO) relay satellites above mars. The main calculation for this section is the radius of the GMO orbit. This can be determined from the following equation (1).

(1)

where the variables in the equation are:

The value of a GMO orbit was determined to be approximately 17030km. A 3D plot of the orbits is shown in Figure 18.

Figure 18: 3-D plot of GMO Orbit

These calculations can be found in the MATLAB file here.
The calculations for the specific link distances are found in the MATLAB file here

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