CITATION.cff

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message: "If you reference this work, please cite it as below. This is a design study at TRL 2-3 with no experimental, FEA, or third-party validation; see PROVENANCE.md."
title: "VOLLEY: A Linear-Motor Electromagnetic Deployment System for Deterministic CubeSat Orbit Seeding from Small Launch Vehicles"
abstract: "VOLLEY is a magazine-fed electromagnetic deployer concept that ejects unmodified CubeSats at a programmable velocity in the tens-of-m/s regime between spring deployers and propulsive transfer vehicles. This repository contains the analysis scripts, the IEEE conference paper, and the full provenance record. Design study only: no FEA or hardware."
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Mishra
    given-names: Adityavardhan
    affiliation: "Department of Mechanical Engineering, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India"
    email: adityavardhanmishr@gmail.com
version: "v1.1"    # set from the latest git tag (git tag --sort=-v:refname | head -1)
date-released: "2026-07-30"   # commit date of the v1.1 tag
                   # (git log -1 --format=%ci v1.1). Was 2026-07-23, the v0.1.0 date.
# doi:              # left empty deliberately. Populate after minting a DOI (e.g. via a
#                   # Zenodo release); nothing in this repository supplies one.
keywords:
  - CubeSat deployment
  - electromagnetic launch
  - Halbach array
  - linear synchronous motor
  - rideshare
  - constellation phasing
license: CC-BY-4.0