1997 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Conference

Technical Sessions

SESSION 1 ORBITAL MECHANICS

8:30 AM Monday, February 10 Enterprise

Chair: DR. FELIX HOOTS, General Research Corporation

• AAS 97-100 -- ORBIT ANALYSIS SOFTWARE SURVEY 1996 UPDATE , E. V. Beck and C. A. Boelitz, U.S. Air Force Phillips Laboratory
• AAS 97-101 -- ALTERNATIVE ORBITAL MECHANICS ANALYSIS , R. H. Jacobson, Casper, WY
• AAS 97-102 -- SHORT RESPONSE TIME OPTIONS FOR IMPENDING ASTEROID COLLISION , D. G. Tuckness, Jr. and T. McGaha, The University of Texas at Arlington
• AAS 97-103 -- DYNAMICS AND CONTROL OF CLOSE ORBITS AROUND SMALL ROTATING BODIES , M. Guelman, Israel Institute of Technology
• AAS 97-104 -- AUTONOMOUS CONTROL OF A RING OF SATELLITES , A. G. Y. Johnston and C. R. McInnes, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
• AAS 97-105 -- HALO ORBIT GENERATION USING THE CENTER MANIFOLD , M. W. Lo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• AAS 97-106 -- LISSAJOUS ORBITS AROUND HALO ORBITS , G. Gmez and C. Sim, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; J. Masdemont, Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya, Spain

SESSION 2 GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM

8:30 AM Monday, February 10 Pathfinder

Chair: DR. BOBBY G. WILLIAMS, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• AAS 97-107 -- GPS NAVIGATION INITIATIVES AT GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER FLIGHT DYNAMICS DIVISION , R. Hart and S. Truong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; A. Long, D. Oza and T. Lee, Computer Sciences Corporation
• AAS 97-108 -- ORBEST-A GPS NAVIGATION SOLUTION ALGORITHM WITHOUT DOP ANALYSIS , R. V. F. Lopes and H. K. Kuga, INPE-Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil
• AAS 97-109 -- G THE GPS NAVIGATION SOLUTION FOR ORBIT DETERMINATION , J. M. Nascimento, H. K. Kuga and A. F. B. A. Prado, INPE-Instituto Nacional de Espaciais, Brazil
• AAS 97-110 -- ANALYSIS OF ALGEBRAIC SOLUTIONS TO THE GPS NAVIGATIONAL EQUATIONS , J. B. Lundberg, C. F. Minter and S. Yoon, Auburn University
• AAS 97-111 -- SATELLITE ORBIT DETERMINATION USING GPS PSEUDORANGES UNDER SA , P. W. Binning, Naval Research Laboratory
• AAS 97-112 -- 77 GPS ATTITUDE AND NAVIGATION EXPERIMENT (GANE) , M. E. Lisano, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace; J. R. Carpenter, NASA Johnson Space Center

SESSION 3 ATTITUDE DYNAMICS

8:30 AM Monday, February 10 Discovery

Chair: DR. ROBERT H. BISHOP, The University of Texas at Austin

• AAS 97-114 -- DYNAMICS OF AN ASYMMETRIC SPACECRAFT BY A CONSTANT THRUST: PERTURBATION STUDIES , T. Williams and S. Tanygin, University of Cincinnati
• AAS 97-115 -- EFFECTS OF EXHAUST GASES ON THE DYNAMICS OF SPINNING SPACE VEHICLES UNDERGOING MASS LOSS , F. O. Eke and J. Mudge, University of California-Davis
• AAS 97-116 -- SOME STUDIES ON LINEARIZED UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION IN RIGID BODY MOTION , J. L. Junkins and M. R. Akella, Texas A&M University
• AAS 97-117 -- FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS OF THE ATTITUDE MOTIONS OF A VARIABLE MASS CYLINDER , T. C. Mao and F. O. Eke, University of California-Davis
• AAS 97-118 -- THE DYNAMICS AND MODELING FIDELITY OF AN APPARATUS TO TEST THE STABILITY OF SPINNING SPACECRA, D. M. Halsmer, Oral Roberts University
• AAS 97-119 -- AN EIGENFACTOR SQUARE ROOT ALGORITHM FORMULATION FOR NONLINEAR DYNAMICS , J. L. Junkins and H. Schaub, Texas A&M University

SESSION 4 SATELLITE THEORY

1:30 PM Monday, February 10 Pathfinder

Chair: DR. RON PROULX, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

• AAS 97-121 -- A FAMILY OF VARIABLE-STEP CHEBYSHEV METHODS FOR PRECISE INTEGRATION OF PERTURBED OSCILLATOR SY, D. L. Richardson, University of Cincinnati; J. V. Aguiar, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
• AAS 97-122 -- SEMIANALYTICAL METHODS FOR HIGH ECCENTRIC ORBITS: ZONAL HARMONICS AND AIR DRAG TERMS , R. Barrio, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain; J. Palacin, Universidad Pblica de Navarra, Spain
• AAS 97-123 -- EAST-WEST STATIONKEEPING OF SATELLITE ORBITS WITH RESONANT TESSERAL HARMONICS , T. A. Ely and K. C. Howell, Purdue University
• AAS 97-124 -- REDUCING THE GEOPOTENTIAL TESSERAL HARMONIC EFFECTS ON AUTONOMOUS LONGITUDE DRIFT CONTROL OF S, V. Orlando and H. K. Kuga, INPE-Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil
• AAS 97-125 -- ANALYTICAL THEORY FOR THE SPOT SATELLITE , J. Palacin and P. Yanguas, Universidad Pblica de Navarra, Spain; J. F. San Juan, Universidad de la Rioja, Spain
• AAS 97-126 -- REGULARIZED EQUATIONS OF MOTION FOR THE ALFRIEND-COFFEY HAMILTONIAN , I. Aparicio and L. Flora, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

SESSION 5 NAVIGATION/TRACKING/DEBRIS

1:30 PM Monday, February 10 Discovery

Chair: DR. LINCOLN J. WOOD, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• AAS 97-128 -- NAVIGATION USING TWO ANGLE ONLY MEASUREMENTS TO DETERMINE POSITION OF LOW THRUST SPACECRAFT , S. W. Burkham, D. G. Tuckness, Jr. and T. McGaha, The University of Texas at Arlington
• AAS 97-129 -- ADAPTIVE INTERPLANETARY NAVIGATION USING DIFFERENCED-RANGE OBSERVABLES: MARS PATHFINDER , W. S. Chaer and R. H. Bishop, The University of Texas at Austin
• AAS 97-130 -- ON THE APPLICATION OF GRAVITY GRADIOMETER FOR INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM , H. Shingu, National Aerospace Laboratory, Japan
• AAS 97-131 -- AN OVERALL TRAJECTORY AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FOR A LONG- RANGE HYPERSONIC TRANSPORT USING EXO, D. G. Tuckness, Jr. and T. McGaha, The University of Texas at Arlington
• AAS 97-133 -- AN ESTIMATION OF HAZARDS IN THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT FOR A LONG-RANGE HYPERSONIC TRANSPORT USING , D. G. Tuckness, Jr. and T. McGaha, The University of Texas at Arlington
• AAS 97-134 -- PREDICTIVE AVOIDANCE FOR GROUND-BASED LASING HAMILTONIAN , S. Alfano, U.S. Air Force Space Command; R. Burns, U.S. Air Force Phillips Laboratory
• AAS 97-135 -- PREDICTING CRACK LENGTHS IN MULTI-WALL SYSTEMS FOLLOWING A PERFORATING HYPERVELOCITY PROJECTI, W. P. Schonberg and E. Mohamed, University of Alabama in Huntsville

SESSION 6 MULTI-BODY DYNAMICS/TETHERED SYSTEMS

1:30 PM Monday, February 10 Enterprise

Chair: DR. ARUN K. MISRA, McGill University

• AAS 97-136 -- MULTIBODY MODELING OF COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE DYNAMICS FOR GROUND-BASED SIMULATIONS , J. E. Cochran, Jr., Y-M Cheng, S. Cho and S. Yoon, Auburn University J. M. Kim, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Kor
• AAS 97-137 -- COORDINATED MOTION CONTROL OF MULTIPLE MANIPULATOR SPACE FREE-FLYERS , S. A. A. Moosavian and E. Papadopoulos, McGill University, Canada
• AAS 97-138 -- A NEW LOOK AT THE PROBLEM OF CONSTRAINTS VIOLATION , S. Djerassi, Haifa, Israel K. W. Buffinton, Bucknell University
• AAS 97-139 -- SIMULTANEOUS DEPLOYMENT OF A CABLE FROM TWO MOVING PLATFORMS , S. Djerassi and H. Bamberger, Haifa, Israel
• AAS 97-141 -- NON-LINEAR FREE VIBRATION OF A SPINNING TETHER , B. N. Min and A. K. Misra, McGill University, Canada

SESSION 7 TRAJECTORY DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION

8:30 AM Tuesday, February 11 Enterprise

Chair: MR. DENNIS V. BYRNES, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• AAS 97-146 -- NECESSARY CONDITIONS FOR THE OPTIMALITY OF SYNERGETIC MANEUVERS , S-Y Park and I. M. Ross, Naval Postgraduate School
• AAS 97-149 -- DETERMINATION OF OPTIMAL SPACECRAFT TRAJECTORIES USING A STEP-BY-STEP LINEARIZATION METHOD , S. H. Pourtakdoust, M. A. Jalali and J. R. Saberian, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
• AAS 97-160 -- OPTIMAL MANEUVER SEQUENCE FOR KOREASAT 1 RECOVERY , B. A. Conway and F. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

SESSION 8 CONTROL THEORY

8:30 AM Tuesday, February 11 Pathfinder

Chair: DR. DON MACKISON, Mackison Associates

• AAS 97-150 -- CONDITIONS FOR CONVERGENCE IN INDIRECT ADAPTIVE CONTROL BASED LEARNING CONTROL , H. P. Wen and R. W. Longman, Columbia University
• AAS 97-151 -- APPROXIMATE SOLUTION OF OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS , D. G. Hull, The University of Texas at Austin
• AAS 97-152 -- USE OF DECOUPLING BASIS FUNCTIONS IN LEARNING CONTROL FOR LOCAL LEARNING AND FOR IMPROVED TRAN, S.J. Oh and R. W. Longman, Columbia University
• AAS 97-154 -- EXPERIMENTS IN THE USE OF LEARNING CONTROL CONCEPTS TO ELIMINATE ERROR IN CONSTANT VELOCITY B, Y. Hsin and R. W. Longman, Columbia University; E. J. Solcz and J. de Jong, Xerox Ccorporation

SESSION 9 MISSION DESIGN - NEAR EARTH

1:30 PM Tuesday, February 11 Enterprise

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

• AAS 97-155 -- ON SATELLITE UMBRA/PENUMBRA ENTRY AND EXIT POSITIONS , B. Neta, Naval Postgraduate School; D. Vallado, U.S. Air Force Phillips Laboratory
• AAS 97-156 -- EFFECT OF ORBITER-INDUCED PERTURBATIONS ON THE TRAJECTORY FROM A PAYLOAD PERSPECTIVE , A. F. Heaton, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• AAS 97-161 -- SPACE SHUTTLE CONTINGENCY SUPPORT PLANNING BY THE GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER FLIGHT DYNAMICS , J. O. Cappellari, Jr., L. March, W. F. Forcey, D. P. Morgenstern, P. P. Powers, and M. P. Schwegmann, Computer Sciences Corporation; A. Sho

SESSION 10 ATTITUDE DETERMINATION AND CONTROL

1:30 PM Tuesday, February 11 Pathfinder

Chair: DR. JOHN B. LUNDBERG, Auburn University

• AAS 97-163 -- AERODYNAMIC STABILIZATION ANALYSIS FOR LEO SMALL SATELLITES , J-S Chern, Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China
• AAS 97-164 -- THE NEW SKY2000 MASTER CATALOG , J. R. Myers, C. B. Sande, and A. C. Miller, Computer Sciences Corporation; W. H. Warren, Jr., Hughes STX; D. A. Tracewell, NASA Goddard Spa
• AAS 97-165 -- ATTITUDE DETERMINATION FOR SPIN STABILIZED SATELLITES FROM GPS INTERFEROMETRY , R. V. F. Lopes, S. M. Fabri and L. Do. O. Ferreira, INPE-Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil
• AAS 97-166 -- STUDY ON OPTIMAL FILTERING FOR ATTITUDE DETERMINATION APPLIED TO THE MOON-SUN ATTITUDE SENSOR , F. Curti and D. Mortari, Universit degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
• AAS 97-167 -- THE ESOQ-2 SINGLE-POINT ALGORITHM FOR FAST OPTIMAL SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE DETERMINATION , D. Mortari, Universit degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
• AAS 97-168 -- AIRBORNE KINEMATIC ATTITUDE DETERMINATION USING GPS PHASE INTERFEROMETRY , T. Tsujii, National Aerospace Laboratory, Japan
• AAS 97-169 -- PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON-SUN ATTITUDE SENSOR , G. Laneve and D. Mortari, Universit degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
• AAS 97-170 -- LEQG AND GAME THEORETIC SATELLITE ATTITUDE CONTROL WITH MAGNETIC TORQUER , C-H Won, Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea

SESSION 11 MISSION DESIGN - LUNAR AND INTERPLANETARY

8:30 AM Wednesday, February 12 Enterprise

Chair: DR. LOUIS A. D'AMARIO, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• AAS 97-171 -- BALLISTIC CAPTURE LUNAR TRANSFER DETERMINATION FOR THE U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY BLUE MOON MISSIO, E. Belbruno, Princeton University; R. Humble, U.S. Air Force Academy
• AAS 97-172 -- LUNAR AND PLANETARY MISSIONS LAUNCHED FROM A GEOSYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER ORBIT , P. A. Penzo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• AAS 97-173 -- MERCURY MISSION DESIGN USING SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION SPACECRAFT , C. A. Kluever and M. Abu-Saymeh, University of Missouri-Columbia/Kansas City
• AAS 97-174 -- TRAJECTORY DESIGN FOR A EUROPA ORBITER MISSION: A PLETHORA OF ASTRODYNAMIC CHALLENGES , T. Sweetster, J. Johannesen, J. Bell, P. A. Penzo, A. Wolf, S. Williams and S. Matousek, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• AAS 97-175 -- CONTOUR MISSION OVERVIEW AND TRAJECTORY DESIGN , R. W. Farquhar and D. Dunham, Johns Hopkins University; S-C Jen, Telos Corporation
• AAS 97-176 -- THE CUSTOMIZATION OF SATELLITE TOOL KIT FOR USE ON THE NEAR MISSION , J. Woodburn, K. Williams and H. DeWitt, Analytical Graphics, Inc.
• AAS 97-177 -- PRELIMINARY PLANS FOR A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH 253 MATHILDE , B. G. Williams, C. L. Helfrich, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen, D. J. Scheeres, and D. K. Yeomans, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; D. W. Dunham, R. W.

SESSION 12 DYNAMICS AND CONTROL OF FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES

8:30 AM Wednesday, February 12 Pathfinder

Chair: DR. PETER M. BAINUM, Howard University

• AAS 97-178 -- THERMALLY-INDUCED ATTITUDE DYNAMICS OF A SPACECRAFT WITH A FLEXIBLE BOOM , J. D. Johnston and E. A. Thornton, University of Virginia
• AAS 97-180 -- ON-OFF CONTROL TO DESPIN AND RETRIEVE A TETHERED ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY SPACECRAFT INCLUDING PASSI, S. I. Saeed and J. D. Powell, Stanford University
• AAS 97-182 -- NEAR OPTIMAL CONTROL FOR FLEXIBLE EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES , Z. Tan and P. M. Bainum, Howard University
• AAS 97-184 -- MINIMUM TIME TRANSLATION OF A FLEXIBLE BEAM USING PULSE REPSONSE BASED CONTROL-EXPERIMENTAL R, R. Gonzalez-Lima, Escola Politcnica da Universidade de So Paulo, Brazil

SESSION 13 ORBITAL TRANSFERS

1:30 PM Wednesday, February 12 Enterprise

Chair: DR. CRAIG. A. KLUEVER, University of Missouri-Columbia/Kansas City

• AAS 97-185 -- GENERAL FORM OF THE SPACECRAFT TERMINAL RENDEZVOUS EQUATIONS AND STATE TRANSITION MATRIX , T. E. Carter, Eastern Connecticut State University
• AAS 97-186 -- BEST FORMS OF SOLUTION OF THE TSCHAUNER-HEMPEL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS , T. E. Carter, Eastern Connecticut State University

SESSION 14 ORBIT DETERMINATION AND FILTERING THEORY

1:30 PM Wednesday, February 12 Pathfinder

Chair: MR. JAY MIDDOUR, Naval Research Laboratory

• AAS 97-192 -- PERFORMANCE OF TOPEX/POSEIDON "QUICK-LOOK" PRECISION ORBIT DETERMINATION IN THE EXTENDED MISSI, A. Salama, B. Kennedy, J. Guinn and B. G. Williams, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• AAS 97-194 -- FEEDBACK TIME-OPTIMAL CONTROL SYNTHESIS FOR FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES WITH DAMPING , B. A. AL-Bassam and D. J. Mook, State University of New York at Buffalo
• AAS 97-195 -- POSSIBILITY OF ILL-CONDITIONED COVARIANCE PROPAGATION IN THE TWO-STEP ESTIMATOR , J. L. Garrison and P. Axelrad, University of Colorado
• AAS 97-196 -- A MODIFIED DETECTION FILTER FOR SENSOR FAULTS , A. F. de Mello, Acos Especiais Itabira S. A.-ACESITA, Brazil; M. L. O. Souza, INPE-Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil