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Spacecraft
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Devices, manned and unmanned, which are designed to be placed into an orbit about the Earth or into a trajectory to another celestial body. (NASA…
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Review
2007
Review
2007
Survey of nonlinear attitude estimation methods
J. Crassidis
,
F. Landis
,
Markley
,
Yang Cheng
,
P. Υυ
2007
Corpus ID: 14135042
This paper provides a survey of modern nonlinear filtering methods for attitude estimation. Early applications relied mostly on…
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Distributed attitude alignment in spacecraft formation flying
W. Ren
2007
Corpus ID: 9589245
In this paper, we consider a distributed attitude alignment problem for a team of deep space formation flying spacecraft through…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Organics Captured from Comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Stardust Spacecraft
S. Sandford
,
J. Aléon
,
+52 authors
M. Zolensky
Science
2006
Corpus ID: 2727481
Organics found in comet 81P/Wild 2 samples show a heterogeneous and unequilibrated distribution in abundance and composition…
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Review
2004
Review
2004
A survey of spacecraft formation flying guidance and control. Part II: control
D. Scharf
,
F. Hadaegh
,
S. Ploen
Proceedings of the American Control Conference
2004
Corpus ID: 8866056
Formation flying is defined as a set of more than one spacecraft whose states are coupled through a common control law. This…
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Review
2003
Review
2003
Historical review of air-bearing spacecraft simulators
J. Schwartz
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M. Peck
,
C. Hall
2003
Corpus ID: 10670470
An overview of air-bearing spacecraft simulators is provided. Air bearings have been used for satellite attitude determination…
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Spacecraft trajectory planning with avoidance constraints using mixed-integer linear programming
Arthur G. Richards
,
Tom Schouwenaars
,
J. How
,
E. Feron
2002
Corpus ID: 27380395
A method for finding fuel-optimal trajectories for spacecraft subjected to avoidance requirements is introduced. These include…
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Relative Dynamics and Control of Spacecraft Formations in Eccentric Orbits
G. Inalhan
,
Michael Tillerson
,
J. How
2000
Corpus ID: 12156487
Formation eying is a key technology for both deep-space and orbital applications that involve multiple spacecraft. Many future…
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Ablation and Thermal Response Program for Spacecraft Heatshield Analysis
Y.-K. Chen
,
F. Milos
1999
Corpus ID: 121218905
An implicit ablation and thermal response program is presented for simulation of one-dimensional transient thermal energy…
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Analysis methods for multi-spacecraft data
G. Paschmann
,
P. Daly
1998
Corpus ID: 67764189
Large amounts of data, like one or more time series from some spacecraft carried instruments, have to be reduced and presented in…
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Discovery of Ganymede's magnetic field by the Galileo spacecraft
M. Kivelson
,
K. Khurana
,
+7 authors
Gerald Schubert
Nature
1996
Corpus ID: 4246607
THE Galileo spacecraft has now passed close to Jupiter's largest moon—Ganymede—on two occasions, the first at an altitude of 838…
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