1997 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Conference
SESSION 1 TETHER DYNAMICS
8:30 AM Monday, August 4
Chair: ARUN MISRA, McGill University
- AAS 97-600 -- TiPS: RESULTS OF A TETHERED SATELLITE EXPERIMENT , W. Purdy, S. Coffey, and B. Kelm - Naval Research Laboratory, W.J. Barnds - Swales Aerospace, and M.A. Davis - Allied Signal
- AAS 97-601 -- EXPERIMENTS IN TETHER DYNAMICS PLANNED FOR ATEX'S FLIGHT , M.F. Zedd - Naval Research Laboratory
- AAS 97-602 -- DYNAMICS AND CONTROL OF A FLEXIBLE ATMOSPHERIC TETHER WITH A LIFTING PROBE , B.L. Biswell and J. Puig-Suari - Arizona State University
- AAS 97-603 -- ORBITAL DYNAMICS OF TETHERED SATELLITE SYSTEMS , Y-M Cheng, S. Cho and J. E. Cochran Jr. - Auburn University
- AAS 97-604 -- TETHER SLING SHOT ASSIST , E.L-M. Lanoix and A.K. Misra - McGill University
- AAS 97-605 -- DYNAMICS OF A TETHER SLING , S.N. Kuchnicki, S.G. Tragesser, J.M. Longuski - Purdue University
SESSION 2 GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION, AND ACCURACY
8:30 AM Monday, August 4
Chair: Dave Schmidt, University of Maryland
- AAS 97-606 -- ON COORDINATE SELECTION AND COVARIANCE ESTIMATION IN ORBIT DETERMINATION , J.L. Junkins, M.R. Akella and K.T. Alfriend - Texas A&M University
- AAS 97-607 -- A DYNAMIC ALGORITHM FOR PROCESSING UNCORRELATED TRACKS, K.T. Alfriend - Texas A&M University
- AAS 97-609 -- SATELLITE POSITION DILUTION OF PRECISION (SPDOP) , K.C. Carlton-Wippern - University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
- AAS 97-610 -- IMPACT ERROR SCALING METHODS FOR MISSILE ACCURACY STUDIES , D. Hitzl and T. Merz - retired K. Last and J. Nakanishi - deceased, B. Marshall - Lockheed Martin
- AAS 97-611 -- RANGE LIMITS OF ATTITUDE DETERMINATION ACCURACY , D. Mortari - Universita degli Studi "La Sapienaz" di Roma, Italy
- AAS 97-612 -- A FRAMEWORK FOR THE COMPARISON OF STRUCTURALLY CONNECTED AND SEPARATED SPACECRAFT INTERFEROMET, D.M. Surka and E.F. Crawley - Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc.
SESSION 3 MISSION DESIGN 1
8:30 AM Monday, August 4
Chair: CALINA SEYBOLD, The University of Texas
- AAS 97-613 -- EARTH-JUPITER-EARTH TRAJECTORIES AND THE EUROPA ICE CLIPPER MISSION , D.F. Bender - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-614 -- GALILEO EUROPA MISSION (GEM) TOUR DESIGN , J.L. Bell, J.R. Johannesen - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-615 -- OPTIONS FOR A TITAN ORBITER AND MULTI-PROBE MISSION , P.A. Penzo - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-616 -- GUIDANCE MARGIN AUGMENTATION IN LOW-THRUST TRAJECTORY DESIGN , J. Kawaguchi - ISAS, Japan
- AAS 97-617 -- RECENT EVOLUTION OF THE MARS REFERENCE MISSION , B.K. Joosten - NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, S.J. Hoffman - Science Applications International Corporation
- AAS 97-618 -- MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR: AEROBRAKING WITH A BROKEN WING , D.T. Lyons - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
SESSION 4 CONSTELLATION ANALYSIS AND STATIONKEEPING
1:00 PM Monday, August 4
Chair: KATHLEEN HOWELL, Purdue University
- AAS 97-619 -- A NUMERICAL STUDY OF FROZEN POLAR ORBITS ABOUT ELLIPSOIDAL SHAPED BODIES , H.J. Pernicka and T. Becker - San Jose State University
- AAS 97-620 -- AN ANALYTIC APPROACH TO CALCULATING EARTH COVERAGE , B. Kantsiper and S. Weiss - MIT
- AAS 97-621 -- OPTIMIZATION OF SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS FOR DISCONTINUOUS GLOBAL COVERAGE VIA GENETIC ALGORITH, Capt. E. George - USAF, SMC/AD
- AAS 97-622 -- UPH CONSTELLATIONS FOR CONTINUOUS REGIONAL COVERAGE , C. Ulivieri, G. Laneve, S.M. Hejazi M. - University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- AAS 97-623 -- AUTOMATED STATIONKEEPING FOR SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS , N.H. Shah, R.J. Proulx, P.J. Cefola, and J. Draim - The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
- AAS 97-624 -- A FEEDBACK CONTROL LAW FOR STATIONKEEPING WITH ON-OFF THRUSTERS , C.A. Kluever, G.S. Tanck - University of Missouri-Columbia
SESSION 5 TRACKING AND NAVIGATION
1:00 PM Monday, August 4
Chair: CRAIG KLUEVER, University of Missouri - Columbia
- AAS 97-625 -- CALIBRATING THE RECEIVERS IN THE NAVAL SPACE SURVEILLANCE "FENCE" USING SATELLITE LASER RANGING, G. Charmaine Gilbreath - Naval Research Laboratory
- AAS 97-626 -- LASER RANGING TARGET CONSIDERATIONS FOR LEO SPACECRAFT , G. Charmaine Gilbreath, P.B. Rolsma, R.A. Kessel and J.A. Georges - Naval Research Laboratory
- AAS 97-627 -- RELATIVE NAVIGATION FOR AUTONOMOUS FORMATION FLYING OF SPACECRAFT , C. Gramling - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- AAS 97-628 -- AUTONOMOUS NUCLEUS TRACKING FOR COMET/ASTEROID ENCOUNTERS: THE STARDUST EXAMPLE , S. Bhaskaran, J.E. Riedel, and S.P. Synnott - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-629 -- AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION WITH LIDAR ALTIMETRY , Dr. C.J. Weeks, A. Girardi and J. Lynch - Loyola Marymount University
- AAS 97-630 -- IMAGE BASED RELATIVE MOTION ESTIMATION AROUND A CELESTIAL BODY , T. Nakamura, H. Ohsawa, S. Sawai, J. Kawaguchi, and H. Matsuo - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan
SESSION 6 ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY
1:00 PM Monday, August 4
Chair: FRANK MARCOS, Phillips Laboratory
- AAS 97-631 -- PRECISION ORBIT DETERMINATION USING ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY CALIBRATION , F.A. Marcos - PL/GPI, J.N. Bass - Radex, Inc., D.Larson - SAIC, and J.J. Liu - AFSWC
- AAS 97-632 -- NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY PROGRAM ON EMPIRICAL MODELS OF THE THERMOSPHERE , J.M. Picone, A.E. Hedin, S. Coffey, J. Lean, D. Drob, H. Neal, D. Melendez-Alvira, R. Meier, and J. Mariska - Naval Research Laboratory
- AAS 97-633 -- TOOLS FOR MODELING THE THERMOSPHERE AND IONOSPHERE , A.G. Burns, T.L. Killeen, and W. Wang - The University of Michigan
- AAS 97-634 -- NEUTRAL AND ION DRAG EFFECTS NEAR THE EXOBASE: MSX SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS OF He AND O+ , O.M. Uy, R.C. Benson and R.E. Erlandson - The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; G.M. Keating and J.C. Leary - The George
- AAS 97-635 -- SATELLITE DRAG COEFFICIENTS , G.R. Karr and J.C. Gregory - University of Alabama
- AAS 97-636 -- PREDICTION OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY , G. Heckman -National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- AAS 97-637 -- NEUTRAL DENSITY SPECIFICATION USING FIRST PRINCIPLE MODELS: SEMI-ANNUAL VARIATIONS AND STORMS , T.J. Fuller-Rowell, M.V. Codrescu, J.M. Forbes - CIRES University of Colorado and NOAA Space Environment Center
SESSION 7 SPACE DEBRIS AND SPACE FLIGHT DYNAMICS
8:30 AM Tuesday, August 5
Chair: ROBERT BISHOP, The University of Texas at Austin
- AAS 97-638 -- OVERVIEW OF THE SECOND EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SPACE DEBRIS , D.B. Spencer, K. K. Luu - USAF Phillips Laboratory
- AAS 97-639 -- PROBABILITY OF COLLISIONS IN SPACE , K.C. Carlton-Wippern - University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
- AAS 97-640 -- DYNAMICS AND CONTROL PROBLEMS IN THE DEFLECTION OF NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS , C.D. Hall - A.F. Institute of Technology and I.M. Ross - Naval Postgraduate School
- AAS 97-641 -- ANALYSIS OF THE PEGASUS BREAKUP , J.G. Miller - The MITRE Corporation
- AAS 97-642 -- OVERVIEW OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE FLIGHT DYNAMICS , R.D. Burns - USAF Phillips Laboratory
- AAS 97-643 -- INCORPORATING MODERN METHODS IN UNDERGRADUATE ASTRODYNAMICS EDUCATION , R.A. Madler - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
SESSION 8 RENDEZVOUS
8:30 AM Tuesday, August 5
Chair: TOM CARTER, Eastern Connecticut State University
- AAS 97-644 -- COPLANAR TWO-IMPULSE RENDEZVOUS IN GENERAL ELLIPTIC ORBIT WITH DRAG , J.A. Kechichian - The Aerospace Corporation
- AAS 97-645 -- THE ALGORITHM OF THE TWO-IMPULSE TIME-FIXED NONCOPLANAR RENDEZVOUS WITH DRAG AND OBLATENESS EFF, J.A. Kechichian - The Aerospace Corporation
- AAS 97-646 -- OPTIMAL MULTI-IMPULSE ORBIT RENDEZVOUS BETWEEN NEIGHBORING ORBITS: A NUMERICAL APPROACH , T. Soo No - Chonbuk National University, Korea
- AAS 97-647 -- AN ANALYTIC APPROACH TO OPTIMAL RENDEZVOUS USING THE DER-DANCHICK EQUATIONS , G.J. Der and R. Danchick - TRW
- AAS 97-648 -- OPTIMAL BOUNDED LOW THRUST RENDEZVOUS WITH FIXED TERMINAL APPROACH DIRECTION , M. Guelman, M. Aleshin - Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
- AAS 97-649 -- TERMINAL MANEUVER FOR AN OPTIMAL COOPERATIVE IMPULSIVE RENDEZVOUS , J.E. Prussing - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SESSION 9 TOPICS IN CONTROL THEORY
8:30 AM Tuesday, August 5
Chair: LESTER SACKETT, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
- AAS 97-650 -- LINEAR QUADRATIC REGULATOR CONTROL OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS DESCRIBED BY MATHIEU EQUATIONS , D. Mackison - University of Colorado
- AAS 97-651 -- SUFFICIENCY FOR OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS INVOLVING PARAMETERS , D.G. Hull - The University of Texas
- AAS 97-652 -- FEEDBACK CONTROL LAW USING THE EIGENFACTOR QUASI-VELOCITY COORDINATES , H. Schaub and J.L. Junkins - Texas A&M University
- AAS 97-653 -- STABILIZATION DUE TO FINITE WORD LENGTH IN REPETITIVE CONTROL , Y. Hsin and R.W. Longman - Columbia University
- AAS 97-654 -- CORRECTING FOR DISTURBANCES THAT A PERIODIC IN OUTPUT ANGLE RATHER THAN TIME IN REPETITIVE CON, W. Kang and R.W. Longman - Columbia University
- AAS 97-655 -- ON CONTROL OF SHALLOW SPHERICAL SHELLS USING LAYERS OF PIEZOCERAMIC ACTUATORS , S. Ghaedi and A. Misra - McGill University
- AAS 97-656 -- STABILITY ANALYSIS OF OPTIMAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL HYPERSONIC SKIP TRAJECTORIES , L. de-Olive' Ferreira and A.F.B.A. Prado, INPE - Natl. Inst. for Space Research, Brazil; N.X. Vinh, University of Michigan, Michigan.
- AAS 97-657 -- EFFECTS OF THRUST MISALIGNMENTS ON ORBIT TRANSFERS , D. Levy de Figueiredo Rodrigues and M. Lopes de Oliveira e Souza - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil
SESSION 10 ATTITUDE CONTROL
1:00 PM Tuesday, August 5
Chair: DON MACKISON, University of Colorado at Boulder
- AAS 97-658 -- LARGE ANGLE IMPULSIVE REORIENTATION OF ASYMMETRIC SPACECRAFT WITH INPUT CONSTRAINT , S. Cho, Y-M Cheng, and J. E. Cochran Jr. - Auburn University
- AAS 97-659 -- SIMULTANEOUS CONTROL OF ORBIT AND ATTITUDE MANEUVERS FOR THE GRO SATELLITE , B.A. AL-Bassam, D.J. Mook, and T. Singh - State University of New York at Buffalo
- AAS 97-660 -- DISTURBANCE ACCOMMODATING ATTITUDE CONTROL WITH REACTION WHEEL , J. Kim, D. Shin - Inha Univ., Inchon, Republic of Korea
- AAS 97-661 -- OPTIMAL CONES INTERSECTION TECHNIQUE FOR ATTITUDE POINTING ERROR EVALUATION , D. Mortari - Universita degli Studi "La Sapienaz" di Roma, Italy
- AAS 97-662 -- APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS TO THE SATELLITE ATTITUDE CONTROL PROBLEM , G. Riestra and J. Puig-Suari - Arizona State University
- AAS 97-663 -- CONTROL MOMENT GYRO (CMG) BASED SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE CONTROL USING FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION CONTRO, R. Rokui and S. Kalaycioglu - Concordia University, Quebec, Canada
SESSION 11 ORBITAL MECHANICS AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES - 1
1:00 PM Tuesday, August 5
Chair: DENNIS BYRNES, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-665 -- EVALUATION OF J2-PERTURBED APSIS HEIGHT COMPUTATION METHODS , D.R. Adamo - NASA/JSC
- AAS 97-666 -- MAXIMIZING THE LAUNCH WINDOW OF THE GLOBAL POSITIONING REPLENISHMENT SATELLITES , D. Cave and P.E. Jasper - Lockheed Martin Corporation
- AAS 97-667 -- THE EVOLUTION OF HIGHLY-ECCENTRIC ORBITS , J. D. Fischer , P. J. Cefola , and R. J. Proulx- The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
- AAS 97-668 -- CONJUNCTION/INTERFERENCE BETWEEN LEO AND GEO COMSATS , T.J. Lang - The Aerospace Corporation
- AAS 97-669 -- LOW ENERGY INTERPLANETARY TRANSFERS USING INVARIANT MANIFOLDS , M.W. Lo - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-670 -- MODELING ISSUES CONCERNING MOTION OF THE SATURNIAN SATELLITES , S.G. Tragesser and J.M. Longuski -Purdue University
SESSION 12 HIGHLY-AGILE AND HIGH-ALTITUDE SPACE SYSTEMS
1:00 PM Tuesday, August 5
Chair: G.T. TSENG, The Aerospace Corporation
- AAS 97-671 -- TRANSITIONING THE NATION'S SPACELIFT RANGE SYSTEM (SLRS) FROM RADARs TO GPS FOR PRIMARY RANGE S, Capt. J. Ward - United States Air Force, SMC/CW, D. Villalpando - The Aerospace Corporation
- AAS 97-672 -- SPACE LIFT RANGE SYSTEM LAUNCH VEHICLE TRAJECTORY MEASUREMENT CAPABILITY TRADE STUDY RESULTS , R. Baker, C.W. Morris, and J.F. Richardson - Lockheed Martin Corporation
- AAS 97-673 -- EVALUATION OF GPS/IMU TRAJECTORY ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE FOR REALTIME MISSILE FLIGHT SAFETY , J. McConnell, R. Greenberg - SW/XPE and Dr. R. Brooks, Dr. J. Hsieh - ITT/FSC
- AAS 97-674 -- MISSILE TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT TEST - 2 , S.H. Slivinsky, Lt L. Fountain, R. Galloway, and Capt A.M. Scott - Phillips Laboratory
- AAS 97-675 -- TRENDS IN POSITION DETERMINATION FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT SATELLITES , B.L. Simpson - The Aerospace Corporation and Capt T.J. Rade - USAF, SMC/CWI
- AAS 97-676 -- NEW TECHNIQUES FOR ORBIT DETERMINATION OF GEOSYNCHRONOUS, GEOSYNCHRONOUS-TRANSFER, AND OTHER HI, S.M. Lichten, Sien-Chong Wu, L.E. Young, J.M. Srinivasan, B.J. Haines - NASA
- AAS 97-677 -- CHALLENGES AND OPTIONS FOR GEO USE OF GPS , C.C. Chao, M.D. Menn, J.L. Wong, S.L. Johns, P.H. Kim - The Aerospace Corporation
SESSION 13 ATTITUDE DYNAMICS AND ESTIMATION
8:30 AM Wednesday, August 6
Chair: PETER BAINUM, Howard University
- AAS 97-678 -- RELATIVE EQUALIBRIA OF A RIGID SATELLITE IN A CIRCULAR KEPLERIAN ORBIT , J.A. Beck, C.D. Hall - Air Force Institute of Technology
- AAS 97-679 -- SATELLITE NONLINEAR ATTITUDE MOTION ABOUT AN OBLATE CENTRAL BODY , H.A. Karasopoulos - WL/FIMA and D.L. Richardson - University of Cincinnati
- AAS 97-680 -- LARGE ANGLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SPINNING RIGID BODY SUBJECT TO CONSTANT TRANSVERSE TORQUES , R.A. Beck and J.M. Longuski - Purdue University
- AAS 97-681 -- DYNAMICS OF AN ASYMMETRIC SPACECRAFT: ANALYTIC STUDIES , S. Tanygin and T. Williams - University of Cincinnati
- AAS 97-682 -- INVESTIGATION OF NEARBY SOLUTIONS OF EULER'S ROTATIONAL EQUATIONS , S. Tanygin, D.L. Richardson, T. Williams - University of Cincinnati
- AAS 97-683 -- AN ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUE FOR ESTIMATING ATTITUDE FROM EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD DATA , F. Curti - University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
- AAS 97-684 -- A QUATERNION FORM OF KINEMATIC EQUATIONS IN ROTATING REFERENCE FRAMES , L. Meister (Aramanovich) - TH Darmstadt, Germany
SESSION 14 NUMERICAL METHODS IN ORBITAL MECHANICS
8:30 AM Wednesday, August 6
Chair: BOBBY WILLIAMS, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-685 -- AN EVALUATION OF THE JACCHIA 1971 AND MSISE 1990 ATMOSPHERIC MODELS USING NASA ODERACS2 DATA , S.H. Chastain, C.C. Chao - The Aerospace Corporation
- AAS 97-686 -- TRAJECTORY PROPAGATION OVER VERY SHORT TIME SPANS , G.J. Der, A.T. Monuki, R. Danchick - TRW
- AAS 97-687 -- MAINTAINING THE SPACE OBJECT CATALOG WITH SPECIAL PERTURBATIONS , H. Neal - GRC International, Inc., S. Coffey - Naval Research Laboratory, and
- AAS 97-688 -- PARALLEL VERSION OF SPECIAL PERTURBATIONS ORBIT PROPAGATOR , B. Neta - Naval Postgraduate School
- AAS 97-689 -- EPHEMERIS COMPRESSION USING MULTIPLE FOURIER SERIES , A. Segerman - GRC International Inc., S. Coffey - Naval Research Laboratory
- AAS 97-690 -- HYBRID EPHEMERIS COMPRESSION MODEL , F.R. Hoots, R.G. France - GRC International, Inc.
- AAS 97-691 -- GEOPOTENTIAL PERTURBATIONS - AN EFFICIENT ALGORITH , E. Wnuk and I. Wytrzyszczak - Astronomical Observatory of A. Mickiewicz University, Poland
SESSION 15 SURVEY PAPERS OF SELECTED NATIONAL SPACE PROGRAMS
8:30 AM Wednesday, August 6
Chair: RICHARD HOLDAWAY, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK
- AAS 97-692 -- THE CANADIAN SPACE PROGRAM , A.K. Misra - McGill University
- AAS 97-693 -- THE JAPANESE SPACE PROGRAM , K.T. Uesugi - The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan
- AAS 97-694 -- THE BRITISH SPACE PROGRAM , R. Holdaway - Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK
- AAS 97-695 -- THE FRENCH SPACE PROGRAM THROUGH CNES FLIGHT DYNAMICS ACTIVITIES , G. Tavernier - CNES
- AAS 97-696 -- ASI - ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY: MAJOR NATIONAL PROGRAMS AND PARTICIPATION IN THE EUROPEAN SPACE O, C. Portelli and C. Rosini - Italian Space Agency, Rome, Italy
- AAS 97-697 -- A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE SPACE ACTIVITIES IN TAIWAN , J. Chern - Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of China
- AAS 97-698 -- THE ISRAELI SPACE PROGRAM , M. Guelman - Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, Israel
SESSION 16 ORBIT DETERMINATION: TECHNIQUES AND RESULTS
1:00 PM Wednesday, August 6
Chair: PAUL SCHUMACHER, Naval Space Command
- AAS 97-699 -- GALILEO ORBIT DETERMINATION RESULTS DURING THE SATELLITE TOUR , P.G. Antreasian, T.P. McElrath, R.J. Haw, G.D. Lewis, T. Krisher - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-701 -- DEMONSTRATION OF MICROGPS FOR LOW-COST ORBIT DETERMINATION , Sien-Chong Wu, D. Kuang, S.M. Lichten, S. Nandi, L.J. Romans, J.M. Srinivasan - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-702 -- IMPROVEMENTS IN MARS GRAVITY FIELD DETERMINATION USING RIDGE-TYPE ESTIMATION METHODS , C.F. Minter - Naval Surface Warfare and D.A. Cicci - Auburn University
- AAS 97-703 -- THE NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY'S ORBIT/COVARIANCE ESTIMATION AND ANALYSIS SOFTWARE: OCEAN , M.T. Soyka, J.W. Middour, P.W. Binning, J. Fein, H.M. Pickard - Naval Research Laboratory
- AAS 97-704 -- ACCURATE ORBIT DETERMINATION FROM SHORT-ARC DENSE OBSERVATIONAL DATA , LtCol D. Vallado and Lt S. Carter - Phillips Laboratory
- AAS 97-705 -- USE OF THE RAVEN OPTICAL SENSOR FOR DEEP-SPACE ORBIT DETERMINATION , LtCol S. Wallace, C. Sabol and LtCol S. Carter - Phillips Laboratory/VTA
SESSION 17 MISSION DESIGN 2
1:00 PM Wednesday, August 6
Chair: STEVE HOFFMAN, SAIC
- AAS 97-706 -- MESSENGER MERCURY ORBITER MISSION OVERVIEW AND TRAJECTORY DESIGN , J. McAdams and J. Horsewood - The Johns Hopkins University
- AAS 97-707 -- STARDUST MISSION DESIGN , E.A. Hirst and C.L. Yen - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-708 -- PROBABILITY ANALYSIS OF NEW COMET FLYBY FOR CONTOUR MISSION , A. Friedlander and D. German - Science Applications International Corporation
- AAS 97-709 -- TRAJECTORY DESIGN USING A DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH WITH APPLICATION TO GENESIS , K.C. Howell, B.T. Barden and M.W. Lo - Purdue University
- AAS 97-710 -- MULTI-ASTEROID BALLISTIC FLYBY MISSIONS INVOLVING LARGE ASTEROIDS , D.F. Bender - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-711 -- LOW-COST MODIFIED LAUNCH MODE FOR HIGH-C3 INTERPLANETARY MISSIONS , H.F. Meissinger, J.R. Wertz, and S. Dawson - Microcosm, Inc.
SESSION 18 OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES
1:00 PM Wednesday, August 6
Chair: JENG-SHING CHERN, Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology (C
- AAS 97-712 -- NOMINAL REENTRY TRAJECTORY SELECTION VIA OPTIMAL CONTROL , R.J. Baltrum, B.L. Pierson, and D.J. Chen - AeroAstro
- AAS 97-713 -- OPTIMIZATION OF DV EARTH-GRAVITY-ASSIST TRAJECTORIES , L. Casalino, G. Colasurdo and D. Pastrone - Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, Torino, Italy
- AAS 97-714 -- OPTIMAL LOW-THRUST TRAJECTORIES TO EARTH-MOON L2 HALO ORBITS (CIRCULAR PROBLEM) , T.F. Starchville, Jr. and R.G. Melton - Pennsylvania State University
- AAS 97-716 -- MINIMUM TIME TRANSFER OF A CONSTANT LOW THRUST ROCKET BETWEEN ELLIPTIC ORBITS IN STRONG NEWTONI, B.N. Kiforenko, Z.V. Pasechnik and I.Y. Vasiliev - Kiev Taras Schevchenko University L.R. Balkanyi and J.P. Riehl - NASA Lewis Research Ce
- AAS 97-717 -- A DIRECT APPROACH FOR COMPUTING NEAR-OPTIMAL LOW-THRUST TRANSFERS , C.A. Kluever, S.R. Oleson - University of Missouri-Columbia
- AAS 97-718 -- TIME OPTIMAL PATH PLANNING IN POLAR ROBOTS WITH JOINT FLEXIBILITY , M. Mössner-Beigel, M. Steinbach, and H. Georg Bock - University of Heidelberg, Germany, R.W. Longman - Columbia University
- AAS 97-719 -- THE CHOICE OF APPROPRIATE COST FUNCTIONALS FOR OPTIMIZING THE OPERATING SPEED OF ROBOTS , J. Li and R.W. Longman - Columbia University, V. Schulz and H.G. Bock - University of Stuttgart, Germany
SESSION 19 FLEXIBLE BODY DYNAMICS
8:30 AM Thursday, August 7
Chair: DAVID SCHAECHTER, Lockheed Martin
- AAS 97-720 -- EQUATIONS OF MOTION FOR AN N-LINK PLANAR SYSTEM FOR SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION , B.L. Biswell and J. Puig-Suari - Arizona State University
- AAS 97-721 -- COMMAND SHAPING FOR NONLINEAR TRACKING CONTROL OF A TWO-LINK FLEXIBLE MANIPULATOR , A.K. Banerjee - Lockheed Martin Research Laboratory, W.E. Singhose - MIT
- AAS 97-722 -- APPLICATION OF A SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION METHOD TO DIGITALLY CONTROLLED LARGE ORBITING PLA, A.J. Ericsson-Jackson, P.M. Bainum and G. Xing - Howard University
- AAS 97-723 -- FLEXIBLE SPACECRAFT REORIENTATIONS USING GIMBALED MOMENTUM WHEELS , K.A. Ford and C.D. Hall - A.F. Institute of Technology/ENY
- AAS 97-724 -- DYNAMICS OF A FLEXIBLE PLATFORM DUE TO OPERATIONAL DISTURBANCES , V.J. Modi - University of British Columbia A. Suleman - Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal
- AAS 97-725 -- ROBUST OPTIMAL CONTROL OF A FLEXIBLE SPACECRAFT , A. Tewari - Indian Institute of Technology, India
SESSION 20 MISSION DESIGN 3
8:30 AM Thursday, August 7
Chair: LINCOLN WOOD, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-726 -- SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION PERFORMANCE FOR MEDLITE AND DELTA CLASS PLANETARY MISSIONS , C.G. Sauer, Jr. - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- AAS 97-727 -- MINIMUM Delta-V DEFLECTING EARTH-CROSSING ASTEROIDS , Sang-Young Park, J.T. Elder and I.M. Ross - Naval Postgraduate School
- AAS 97-728 -- TRAJECTORY DESIGN FOR THE MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE (MAP) , K.V. Richon and Dr. M. Mathews - NASA/FSFC
- AAS 97-729 -- SMALL SATELLITES FOR AERONOMIC MISSIONS IN THE LOWER THERMOSPHERE , G. Laneve - Aerospace Department, Rome, Italy
- AAS 97-730 -- FLIGHT CONTROL, DYNAMICS, AND STRUCTURAL INTERACTION ON THE SECOND HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SERV, L.L. Sackett, C.B. Kirchwey, M.C. Johnson, R.D. Barrington - The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
SESSION 21 ORBITAL MECHANICS AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES - 2
8:30 AM Thursday, August 7
Chair: JOHN COCHRAN, Auburn University
- AAS 97-731 -- CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE DRAPER SEMIANALYTICAL SATELLITE THEORY STANDALONE ORBIT PROPAGATOR P, J. G. Neelon, P. J. Cefola and R. J. Proulx - The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
- AAS 97-733 -- THE ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIVE MOTION IN GENERAL ELLIPTIC ORBIT WITH RESPECT TO A DRAGGING AND PR, J.A. Kechichian - The Aerospace Corporation
- AAS 97-734 -- RELATIVE MOTION OF SATELLITES IN ELLIPTICAL ORBITS , R. Melton - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- AAS 97-735 -- THE ASTRODYNAMICS OF NEW PLANETARY SYSTEMS: THE ELLIPTIC RESTRICTED 3-BODY PROBLEM , W.D. Kelly - Triton Systems
- AAS 97-736 -- A NEW METHOD OF DETERMINING ORBIT LIFETIME PROBABILITIES FOR USE IN PLANETARY PROTECTION ANALY, M.A. Vincent - Jet Propulsion Laboratory