This is a pre-print. Please cite this article as follows: Shasti, Behrouz, Aria Alasty, and Nima Assadian. "Robust distributed control of spacecraft formation flying with adaptive network topology." Acta Astronautica 136 (2017): 281-296. Also, access this research paper through: DOI information: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2017.03.001