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The interferential characteristics and expected stability under certain disturbance conditions by the space debris in low Earth orbit are analyzed. To simplify the relative motion of the formation and the motion of the test mass (TM) relative to the cage, a prescribed performance function is introduced to constrain the relative attitude errors of transient and steady states. An adaptive attitude control design method based on a prescribed performance function is proposed. Finally, the analysis is carried out. The results show that the probability of normal manner of the formation is about 78.45% in the first year and about 45.59% in the first three years. 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