1996 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting

Technical Sessions

Session 1: Mission Design - Lunar and Translunar Trajectories

Monday, February 12, 8:30 AM

Chair: Dr. KathLEEN C. Howell, Purdue University

• AAS 96-100 -- Approximate Solutions for Lunar Trajectory and Vehicle Optimization Using Electric PropULsion, C. A. Kluever and K. Chang, University of Missouri - Columbia/Kansas City
• AAS 96-105 -- CLL LUNAR TRAJECTORY DESIGN, L. A. Wagner, Jr. and N. Wilks, NASA Johnson Space Center
• AAS 96-101 -- OPTIMAL, LOW-THRUST, EARTH-MOON ORBIT TRANSFERS, A. L. Herman and B. A. Conway, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• AAS 96-104 -- MULTIPLE LUNAR FLYBY TARGETING FOR THE WIND MISSION, D. C. Folta, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; P. Sharer, Computer Sciences Corporation
• AAS 96-103 -- TRAJECTORY DETERMINATION FOR A WEAKLY BOUND TRANSLUNAR TRAJECTORY, D. C. Folta, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; C. T. Knapp and T. Lee, Computer Sciences Corporation

Session 2: Control and Filtering Theory

Monday, February 12, 8:30 AM

Chair: DR. RON PROULX, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

• AAS 96-110 -- DERIVATION AND OPTIMALITY OF DISTRIBUTED FILTERING ALGORITHMS BASED ON MINIMUM VARIANCE METHODS, N. Nabaa and R. H. Bishop, The University of Texas at Austin; J. R. Carpenter, NASA Johnson Space Center
• AAS 96-111 -- GENETICALLY PROGRAMMED ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE FOR SPACECRAFT AUTOMATION, B. M. O'Connor, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace
• AAS 96-108 -- A NEW CLASS OF ADAPTIVE, EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER, D. R. Cruickshank and G. H. Born, University of Colorado
• AAS 96-107 -- AN OPTIMAL CONTROL APPROACH TO NONLINEAR ROBUSTNESS, H. Seywald and R. R. Kumar, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc.
• AAS 96-106 -- PHASE CANCELLATION LEARNING CONTROL USING FFT WEIGHTED FREQUENCY RESPONSE IDENTIFICATION, R. W. Longman and Y. P. Wang, Columbia University
• AAS 96-109 -- DESIGN OF A DIGITAL LEARNING CONTROLLER USING A PARTIAL ISOMETRY, H. S. Jang and R. W. Longman, Columbia University

Session 3: Orbital Debris

Monday, February 12, 1:00 PM

Chair: DR. DAVID B. SPENCER, Phillips Laboratory

• AAS 96-116 -- SIGNATURE ANALYSIS OF DEBRIS FROM THE 1994 AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND DEBRIS CAMPAIGN, S. E. Andrews, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• AAS 96-117 -- CHARACTERISTICS OF DEBRIS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DETECTION AND TRACKING, R. Sridharan, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• AAS 96-118 -- OBSERVATIONS OF DEBRIS IN GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBITS, A. F. Pensa, R. Sridharan, and G. E. Powell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• AAS 96-112 -- DEVELOPMENT OF DOD DEBRIS MITIGATION GUIDELINES, W. S. Campbell, M. E. Sorge, D. B. Spencer, and S. R. Maethner, Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB
• AAS 96-120 -- AN EXAMINATION OF THE HISTORIES OF INTERESTING DEBRIS SATELLTES, G. T. DeVere and R. B. Teets, SenCom Corporation
• AAS 96-113 -- INTRODUCING IDES: CHARACTERISING THE ORBITAL DEBRIS ENVIRONMENT IN THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, R. Walker, S. Hauptman, R. Crowther, H. Stokes, and A. Cant, Defence Research Agency, England
• AAS 96-114 -- DETERMINATION OF THE SIZES AND MASSES OF DEBRIS OBJECTS, I. J. Gravseth and R. D. Culp, University of Colorado
• AAS 96-115 -- A NEW AND DETAILED EVALUATION OF THE NUMBER AND MASSES OF OBJECTS IN EARTH ORBIT, P. Eichler, Lockheed Martin Engineering & Sciences; P. Anz-Meador, Viking Science & Technology, Inc.

Session 4: Orbit Modeling

Monday, February 12 , 1:00 PM

Chair: MR. RICK BARNISIN, Orbital Sciences Corporation

• AAS 96-121 -- CRYOGEN THRUST MODELING FOR MSX EPHEMERIS GENERATION, C. von Braun, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• AAS 96-126 -- DRAG COEFFICIENTS OF SPHERES IN FREE-MOLECULAR FLOW, K. Moe, Space and Missle Systems Center; M. M. Moe and S. D. Wallace, University of California - Irvine
• AAS 96-128 -- MODELING SURFACE FORCES ON THE GEODETIC SATELLITE, AJISAI, M. Cheng, The University of Texas; A. Sengoku, Hydrographic Department of Japan
• AAS 96-122 -- LONGITUDINAL ACCELERATION MODELING FOR THE GPS BLOCK IIR SPACECRAFT, S. H. Vaughan and J. V. Taylor, Lockheed Martin
• AAS 96-125 -- COMPRESSION OF SATELLITE ORBITS, S. Coffey, Naval Research Laboratory; B. Eckstein, University of Florida; B. Kelm, Naval Research Laboratory
• AAS 96-123 -- INTERPOLATED GRAVITY ACCELERATIONS, R. S. Hujsak, Logicon Ultasystems, Inc.
• AAS 96-124 -- EARTH GRAVITATIONAL ERROR BUDGET, W. N. Barker, S. J. Casali, and R. N. Wallner, Kaman Sciences Corporation
• AAS 96-127 -- AN EVALUATION OF JACCHIA 71 AND MSIS90 ATMOSPHERIC MODELS WITH NASA ODERACS DECAY DATA, C. C. Chao and G.R. Gunning, The Aerospace Corporation; K. Moe, Space and Missle Systems; T. J. Settecerri, Lockheed-Martin Engineering & Sciences

Session 5: Shuttle/Mir

Tuesday, February 13 , 8:00 AM

Chair: MR. LESTER L. SACKETT, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

• AAS 96-162 -- DEVELOPMENT OF ROBUST REDUCED ORDERED DIGITAL CONTROLLER FOR LARGE ORBITING PLATFORMS IN DISCRETE-TIME DOMAIN, A. J. Ericsson-Jackson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; P. M. Bainum and G. Xing, Howard University
• AAS 96-129 -- SHUTTLE/MIR GNC MISSION OVERVIEW, D. Zimpfer, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory; P. Spehar, Lockheed Martin
• AAS 96-131 -- SHUTTLE STABILITY AND CONTROL OF THE STS-71 SHUTTLE/MIR MATED CONFIGURATION, D. Zimpfer, K. Kirchwey, D. Hanson, and M. Jackson, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory; N. Smith, NASA Johnson Space Center
• AAS 96-132 -- IDENTIFICATION OF SHUTTLE/MIR STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS FOR FLIGHT CONTROL NOTCH FILTERING TUNING, M. Jackson, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
• AAS 96-133 -- FLUTTER OF SOLAR ARRAYS IN RAREFIED JET PLUMES, J. A. Storch, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
• AAS 96-130 -- STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE AND MIR SPACE STATION, J. Dagen, NASA Johnson Space Center; V. Mezhin, Rocket Space Corporation - Energia
• AAS 96- -- Shuttle/Mir Video, etc., D. Zimpfer, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory; P. Spehar, Lockheed Martin

Session 6: Artificial Satellite Theory

Tuesday, February 13 , 8:00 AM

Chair: MR. RALPH SCHINNERER, Kaman Sciences Corporation

• AAS 96-135 -- SATELLITE MOTION IN A VINTI POTENTIAL, L. M. Rater, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Space & Defense Systems
• AAS 96-139 -- FROZEN ORBITS FOR THE ZONAL MOON POTENTIAL, A. Elipe, V. Lanchares, and M. Lara, Universidad de Zaragoza
• AAS 96-138 -- THE TOPEX ORBIT IN ORLOV'S PLANE AND OTHER APPLICATIONS OF ORBIT LOCAL SPHERICAL HARMONICS, P. J. Melvin, Naval Research Laboratory
• AAS 96-136 -- CANONICAL ELEMENTS FOR PERTURBED ORBITAL MOTIOIN USING AN ARBITRARY TIME PARAMETER, L. Floria, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
• AAS 96-140 -- THE ORBITAL MOTION OF THE MARTIAN SATELLITES: AN APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE THEORY, R. A. Jacobson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• AAS 96-134 -- ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATIONS OF POINT MASS MODEL FOR SUBORBITAL/ORBITAL FLIGHTS, T. K. Shrini, Hernandez Engineering
• AAS 96-137 -- A SET OF REGULAR AND UNIFORM ELEMENTS FOR SATELLITES OF HIGH ECCENTRICITY AND MULTIDAY PERIOD, K. Zare and V. Szebehely, The University of Texas at Austin; J. J. F. Liu, AFF SWC/AE
• AAS 96-141 --

Session 7: Orbit Determination - Near Earth

Tuesday, February 13 , 1:00 PM

Chair: DR. Bruce Haines, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

OF THE SHUTTLE ORBIT CONTROL ACCURACY DURING THE SIR-C/X-SAR MISSION, A. Foni, CNUCE Istituto del CNR; C. Canu, Agenzia Spaziale Italiano
• AAS 96-142 -- THE INCLUSION OF THE NAVAL SPACE COMMAND SATELLITE THEORY PPT2 IN THE R&D GTDS ORBIT DETERMINATION SYSTEM, P. J. Cefola and D. J. Fonte, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
• AAS 96-145 -- A KALMAN FILTER FOR ORBIT DETERMINATION WITH APPLICATIONS TO GPS, STELLAR, AND X-RAY NAVIGATION, P. J. Melvin, Naval Research Laboratory
• AAS 96-148 -- RELATIVISTIC ORBIT DETERMINATION, J. R. Wright and W. A. Chuba, Applied Technology Associates, Inc.
• AAS 96-146 -- PARALLEL PROCESSING OF UNCORRELATED OBSERVATIONS INTO SATELLITE ORBITS, S. L. Coffey, Naval Research Laboratory; H. L. Neal, GRC International; E. Jenkins and H. Reynolds, Naval Space Command
• AAS 96-144 -- A GEMINI PUZZLE - OPTICAL IMAGING 30 YEARS AGO, R. G. Schinnerer, Kaman Sciences Corporation
• AAS 96-143 -- APPLICATION OF THE EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER FOR RELATIVE NAVIGATION IN AN ELLIPTICAL ORBIT, J. L. Garrison and P. Axelrad, University of Colorado
• AAS 96-147 -- DYNAMICS AND ORBIT DETERMINATION OF TETHERED SATELLITE SYSTEMS, J. E. Cochran, D. A. Cicci, S. Cho, and Y-M Cheng, Auburn University

Session 8: Mission Design - Interplanetary

Tuesday, February 13 , 1:00 PM

Chair: Dr. Lincoln J. Wood, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• AAS 96-151 -- AN ANALYTIC APPROXIMATION TO VERY HIGH SPECIFIC IMPULSE & SPECIFIC POWER INTERPLANETARY SPACE MISSION ANALYSIS, C. H. Williams, NASA Lewis Research Center
• AAS 96-149 -- OPTIMAL GRAVITY-ASSISTED SPACECRAFT TRAJECTORIES FOR OUT-OF-ECLIPTIC INTERPLANETARY MISSIONS, M. A. Jalali and S. H. Pourtakdoust, Sharif University of Technology
• AAS 96-155 -- SPHERE-OF-INFLUENCE TO PLANET-FIXED COORDINATES TARGETING, V. R. Bond, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace; M. Munk, NASA Johnson Space Center
• AAS 96-153 -- MISSION PLAN FOR MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR, W. Lee and W. Sidney, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• AAS 96-150 -- PERTURBATION FORCES ACTING ON THE ROSETTA SPACECRAFT IN A CLOSE ORBIT AROUND COMET P/WIRTANEN, E. Gill and O. Montenbruck, GSOC/DLR; M. Patzold, University of Cologne
• AAS 96-152 -- ADAPTIVE ORBIT DETERMINATION FOR INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT, P. D. Burkhart and R. H. Bishop, The University of Texas at Austin
• AAS 96-154 -- MISR INTERPLANETARY TRAJECTORY DESIGN, L. A. Wagner, Jr. and M. M. Munk, NASA Johson Space Center
• AAS 96-156 -- IMPROVEMENTS IN MARS GRAVITY FIELD DETERMINATION USING RIDGE-TYPE ESTIMATION METHODS, C. F. Minter and D. A. Cicci, Auburn University

Session 9: Attitude Dynamics, Control, and Determination I

Wednesday, February 14 , 8:00 AM

Chair: Dr. John E. Cochran , Auburn University

• AAS 96-163 -- DYNAMICS OF A SATELLITE RETRACTING A LONG ELASTIC APPENDAGE, S. Djerassi, Rafael
• AAS 96-157 -- DYNAMIC STABILITY CRITERION OF A SLOW SPIN RE-ENTRY VEHICLE, Yan Hui, Nan Ying, and Chen Shilu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. of China
• AAS 96-158 -- A FAST ON-BOARD AUTONOMOUS ATTITUDE DETERMINATION SYSTEM BASED ON A NEW STAR-ID TECHNIQUE FOR A WIDE FOV STAR TRACKER, D. Mortari, Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
• AAS 96-159 -- NONLINEAR INSTABILITIES IN A DUAL-SPIN SPACECRAFT WITH AN AXIAL NUTATIONAL DAMPER, P. A. Meehan and S. F. Asokanthan, University of Queensland
• AAS 96-161 -- MONOTONIC VIBRATION SUPPRESSION USING REPETITIVE CONTROL AND WINDOWING TECHNIQUES, Y. P. Wang and R. W. Longman, Columbia University
• AAS 96-160 -- DYNAMICS OF A NEAR-SYMMETRICAL SPACECRAFT DRIVEN BY A CONSTANT THRUST, T. Williams and S. Tanygin, University of Cincinnati
• AAS 96-219 -- CHAOTIC DYNAMICS IN A SPACECRAFT WITH A FLEXIBLE APPENDAGE AND WITH ENERGY DISSIPATION VIA A NONLINEAR CONTROLLER, G. L. Gray, Penn State University; A. P. Mazzoleni, Texas Christian University; and D. R. Campbel III, Penn State University

Session 10: i) Orbit Determination / ii) Trajectory Optimization

Wednesday, February 14 , 8:00 AM

Chair: DR. DAVID CICCI, Auburn University

• AAS 96-168 -- ADVANCED LAUNCH SYSTEM TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION, P. D. Burkhart and D. G. Hull, The University of Texas at Austin
• AAS 96-170 -- OPTIMAL DESCENT TRAJECTORIES FOR SCIENTIFIC PAYLOADS USING ICBM-CONVERTED LAUNCHERS, P. Teofilatto and F. Santoni, Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
• AAS 96-164 -- CROSS-CALIBRATION OF ERS-2 RADAR ALTIMETER USING PRECISION ERS ORBITS, C. Rajasenan, M. Anzenhofer, T. Gruber, F-H. Massmann, and Ch. Reigber, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
• AAS 96-169 -- INDIRECT APPROACH FOR MINIMUM-FUEL AEROASSISTED TRANSFERS, L. Casalino, G. Colasurdo, and D. Pastrone, Politecnico di Torino
• AAS 96-165 -- GRAVITY TUNING EXPERIMENTS FOR THE PRECISE ORBIT DETERMINATION OF THE EOS ALTIMETER SATELLITE (EOS ALT/GLAS) USING THE GPS TRACKING DATA, H. J. Rim, G. W. Davis, and B. E. Schutz, The University of Texas at Austin
• AAS 96-166 -- A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO THE PRECISION ORBIT DETERMINATION OF THE GEOSAT EXACT REPEAT MISSION UTILIZING TRANET DOPPLER DATA, M. J. Gabor, Phillips Laboratory; J. C. Ries, The University of Texas
• AAS 96-167 -- MAINBELT ASTROID RENDEZVOUS MISSIONS USING SOLAR ELECTRIC AND SOLAR SAIL PROPULSION, C. A. McFarland, The University of Texas at Austin; M. Leipold, German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR)

Session 11: Attitude Dynamics, Control, and Determination II

Wednesday, February 14 , 1:00 PM

Chair: DR. SANDRA SCRIVENER, Naval Post Graduate School

• AAS 96-178 -- A VARIATION OF PARAMETERS APPROACH FOR THE SOLUTION OF THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS FOR THE ROTATIONAL MOTION OF A RIGID BODY, V. R. Bond, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Space and Defense Systems
• AAS 96-174 -- PREDICITIVE FILTERING FOR ATTITUDE ESTIMATION WITHOUT RATE SENSORS, J. L. Crassidis and F. L. Markley, Goddard Space Flight Center
• AAS 96-176 -- ATTITUDE CONTROL AND MOMENTUM MANAGEMENT OF SPACECRAFT BASED ON A SENSITIVITY OBSERVATION, R. R. Kumar and H. Seywald, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc.
• AAS 96-177 -- ON IMPROVING THE GALILEO SCAN PLATFORM CONE CONTROLLER PERFORMANCE IN CRUISE MODE REMOTE SENSING, C-H. C. Ih, K. B. Hilbert, E. H. McMahon, and K. A. Bahrami, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• AAS 96-173 -- EULER-q ALGORITHM FOR ATTITUDE DETERMINATION FROM VECTOR OBSERVATIONS, D. Mortari, Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
• AAS 96-171 -- ATTDES - AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR SATELLITE ATTITUDE DETERMINATION AND CONTROL, D. L. Mackison and K. Gifford, University of Colorado
• AAS 96-172 -- ADAPTIVE EXTERNAL TORQUE ESTIMATION BY MEANS OF TRACKING A LYAPUNOV FUNCTION, H. Schaub, Texas A&M Univ.; R. D. Robinett, Sandia National Laboratories; J. L. Junkins, Texas A&M University
• AAS 96-175 -- ATTITUDE CONTROL OF SMALL SATELLITES USING FUZZY LOGIC, B. Petermann and A. Misra, McGill University

Session 12: Orbit Determination Using GPS

Wednesday, February 14 , 1:00 PM

Chair: Dr. Paul Schumacher, Naval Space Command

• AAS 96-183 -- ORBIT ESTIMATION RESULTS FOR TOPEX/POSEIDON BASED ON GPS TRACKING DATA, E. R. Swift, M. J. Merrigan, and M. W. Gouldman, Naval Surface Warfare Center
• AAS 96-179 -- ORBIT DETERMINATION OF THE ORBITAL RE-ENTRY EXPERIMENT (OREX) SPACECRAFT BY GPS, M. Murata, M. Harigae, and T. Tsujii, National Aerospace Laboratory, Japan
• AAS 96-181 -- FLIGHT DATA RESULTS OF ESTIMATE FUSION FOR SPACECRAFT RENDEZVOUS NAVIGATION FROM SHUTTLE MISSION STS-69, J. R. Carpenter, NASA Johnson Space Center; R. H. Bishop, The University of Texas at Austin
• AAS 96-182 -- FLIGHT TEST RESULTS FROM REAL-TIME RELATIVE GPS FLIGHT EXPERIMENT ON STS-69, J. Brazzel and Y. Park, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace; R. Carpenter, H. Hinkel, and J. Newman, NASA Johnson Space Center
• AAS 96-184 -- GPS AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION FOR GROUNDTRACK REPEAT ORBITS, J. R. Guinn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• AAS 96-185 -- PRECISION ORBIT DETERMINATION FOR GFO AND GFO-2, K. Irish, K. Gold, G. H. Born, R. Markin, and P. Axelrad, The University of Colorado
• AAS 96-186 -- AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION OF BLOCK II-R GPS SATELLITE USING CROSS-LINK MEASUREMENTS, P. A. M. Abusali, B. D. Tapley, and B. E. Schutz, The University of Texas at Austin
• AAS 96-180 -- STS-69 RELATIVE POSITIONING GPS EXPERIMENT, C. Schroeder, B. Schutz, and P. Abusali, The University of Texas

Session 13: Mission Analysis

Thursday, February 15 , 8:00 AM

Chair: Dr. Richard Holdaway, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

• AAS 96-187 -- MODELING THE INTERNAL EFFECTS WITHIN A HABITABLE MODULE DUE TO A PERFORATION BY AN ORBITAL DEBRIS PARTICLE, W. P. Schonberg, Q. Davenport, J. Serrano, D. Gala, D. J. Liquornik, and R. A. Hayami, University of Alabama in Huntsville; J. E. Williamsen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• AAS 96-188 -- PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER FOR SPACE CONTACT SIMULATORS, M. M. Wahbah, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace
• AAS 96-189 -- ON-ORBIT APPLICATION OF H-INFINITY TO THE MIDDECK ACTIVE CONTROLS EXPERIMENT, J. A. Woods-Vedeler and L. Horta, NASA Langley Research Center
• AAS 96-191 -- DEMONSTRATING LUNAR OXYGEN PRODUCTION: THE TEXAS INTERDISCIPLENARY STUDENT MISSION DESIGN PROJECT, C. C. Seybold, M. Fischer, and W. T. Fowler, The University of Texas at Austin; R. Baccus and A. Cohen, Texas A&M University
• AAS 96-192 -- THE DATA-CHASER HITCHHIKER PROJECT AS A DEMONSTRATION OF DISTRIBUTED OPERATIONS FOR SMALL PAYLOADS, J. Willis and R. Sheppard, University of Colorado
• AAS 96-193 -- DRACO, A DEMONSTRATION AND RESEARCH GAS CAN ORBITER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION IN LOW EARTH ORBIT, W. T. Horton and F. J. Redd, Utah State University
• AAS 96-218 -- THE EDUCATIONAL OZONE RESEARCHER: A 1995 USRA STEDI FINALIST, L. H. McClure and E. L. Riddle, University of Colorado

Session 14: Low Thrust, Power Limited, and Continuous Thrust Missions

Thursday, February 15 , 8:00 AM

Chair: Dr. Robert G. Melton, Pennsylvania State University

• AAS 96-199 -- SHELLS OF MULTIPLE THRUST IN POWER-LIMITED RENDEZVOUS OF A SPACECRAFT, T. E. Carter, Eastern Connecticut State University; C. J. Pardis, Worchester Polytechnic Institute
• AAS 96-196 -- Inclination Change Efficiency: A Geocentric Orbit Transfer Guidance Method Using Continuous Low Thrust, S. Yoon, Auburn University; D. G. Tuckness, Jr., University of Texas at Arlingtion
• AAS 96-194 -- OPTIMAL LOW THRUST INTERPLANETARY TRAJECTORIES BY DIRECT METHOD TECHNIQUES, C. A. Kluever, University of Missouri-Columbia/Kansas City
• AAS 96-200 -- POWER-LIMITED TRANSFERS BETWEEN TWO COPLANAR CONICS UNDER CONTINUOUS KEPLERIAN THRUST, N. Markopoulos, Georgia Institute of Technology
• AAS 96-197 -- OPTIMAL CONTINUOUS THRUST ORBIT TRANSFERS, J. D. Thorne and C. D. Hall, Air Force Institute of Technology
• AAS 96-198 -- CLOSED-FORM THRUST ACCELERATION FOR OPTIMAL POWER-LIMITED TRAJECTORIES, J. E. Prussing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• AAS 96-195 -- OPTIMAL LOW-THRUST INTERCEPTION OF EARTH-CROSSING ASTEROIDS, B. A. Conway, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Session 15: Mission Design - Near Earth

Thursday, February 15 , 1:00 PM

Chair: Dr. Victoria Coverstone-Carroll, University of Illinois

• AAS 96-203 -- POST DEPLOYMENT RECONTACT ISSUES FOR THE SEDS/SEDSAT MISSION, S. W. Evans, Marshall Space Flight Center
• AAS 96-202 -- STRATEGIES FOR MAXIMIZING THE LIFETIME OF THE SEDSAT SATELLITE, J. Pelaez and M. Ruiz, E.T.S.I. Aeronauticos; E. C. Lorenzini, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• AAS 96-208 -- DESIGN OF SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS FOR REGIONAL COVERAGE, F. M. Soccorsi and G. B. Palmerini, Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
• AAS 96-201 -- STABILITY OF PENDULAR MOTION OF A TETHER SYSTEM IN AN ELLIPTICAL ORBIT, J. Pelaez and M. Ruiz, E.T.S.I. Aeronauticos U.P.M.; E. C. Lorenzini, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• AAS 96-205 -- REPEAT GROUND TRACK ANALYSIS FOR THE GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEM, S. Lim and B. E. Schutz, The University of Texas at Austin
• AAS 96-204 -- ALTIMETER DATA TREATMENT AND ORBIT SELECTION FOR TOPEX/POSEIDON AND ERS-1, J. J. Martinez Benjamin and D. Sanchez Ariz, Unversitat Politecnica de Catlunya, Spain
• AAS 96-206 -- ESTIMATION OF ICE SHEET SURFACE ELEVATION CHANGE FROM THE EOS ALTIMETER SATELLITE (ICESAT) CROSSOVER SIMULATION, C. J. Choe and B. E. Schutz, The University of Texas at Austin
• AAS 96-220 -- EVE, AN INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL OPERATIONS TOOL FOR THE EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET EXPLORER, D. Korsmeyer, NASA Ames Research Center; T. Morgan, Center for EUV Astrophysics

Session 16: i) GSO Mission Planning / ii) GPS-INS Systems

Thursday, February 15 , 1:00 PM

Chair: DR. DON MACKISON, University of Colorado

• AAS 96-215 -- LAUNCH RECOVERY MISSION FOR THE KOREASAT FLIGHT 1, Han Hwangbo and Soongjoo Im, Korea Telecom
• AAS 96-209 -- ON THE INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT USING FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPES, H. Shingu, M. Harigae, T. Tsujii, K. Ishikawa, and Y. Miyazawa, National Aerospace Laboratory, Japan
• AAS 96-210 -- ERROR ANALYSIS AND STABILITY INVESTIGATION OF INTEGRATED GPS/INS NAVIGATION SYSTEMS, D. G. Tuckness and D. J. Jwo, The University of Texas at Arlington
• AAS 96-216 -- CONTROL LAW DESIGN FOR AUTONOMOUS STATION COLLOCATION OF SATELLITES, H. Bang, B. Park, S. Kim, and H. Hwangbo, Korea Aerospace Research Institute
• AAS 96-212 -- A SYMPLETIC MAP FOR GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT PROPAGATION, A. A. Jackson, NASA Johnson Space Center
• AAS 96-213 -- INTER-SATELLITE TRACKING FOR CO-LOCATION, C. L. Pastor, G. Mocci, and S. Carlini, Nuova Telespazio S.p.A.
• AAS 96-214 -- GEOSYNCHRONOUS SURVEILLANCE WITH A SPACE-BASED SENSOR, R. Sridharan and W. F. Burnham, Lincoln Laboratory