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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume presents the proceedings of The Richard H. Battin Astrodynamics Symposium which was held March 20-21, 2000, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Session topics included orbital maneuvers, interplanetary mission design, formation flying, spacecraft applications, control applications and attitude determination.

(Extracted from the Press Release).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Keynote Lecture:

-A Scrapbook of Beautiful Equations and Great Ideas (Richard H. Battin).

-Orbital Maneuvers.

-A Class of Optimal Two-Impulse Rendezvous Using Multiple-Revolution Lambert Solutions.
-On the Existence of Almost Periodic Orbits in Low Radial Thrust Spacecraft Motion.
-Transfer Trajectories From Low Earth Orbit to a Large L1-Centered Class I Halo Orbit in the Sun-Earth Circular Problem

-Interplanetary Mission Design.

-Sailing to the Sun.
-Optimal Free-Return Trajectories for Moon Missions and Mars Missions.
-Earth-Mars Transportation Opportunities: Promising Options for Interplanetary Transportation.
-Paul Bunyan's Brachistochrone and Tautochrone.
-Adaptive Interplanetary Navigation Using Genetic Algorithms.

-Formation Flying.

-Optimal Configurations for Rotating Spacecraft Formations.
-Hill's Equations, Mean Orbital Elements, and Formation Flying of Satellites.
-Dynamics and Control of Spacecraft Formations: Challenges and Some Solutions.

-Spacecraft Applications.

-A Review of Techniques Used in the Design of Control Systems for a Class of Flexible Expendable Launch Vehicles.
-Space Applications of the Global Positioning and Timing Service (GPtS).
-Using Spectroscopy to Characterize Orbiting Space Debris.

-Control Applications.

-Adaptation and Cooperation in Control of Multiple Robot Manipulators.
-Control of Spacecraft Subject to Actuator Failures: State-of-the-Art and Open Problems.
-A Spectral Patching Method For Direct Trajectory Optimization.

-Attitude Determination.

-New Developments in Quaternion Estimation From Vector Observations.
-A Most Visionary Paper on the Focal-Plane Representation of Rotations.
-Optimal Attitude and Position Determination From Line-of-Sight Measurements.
-An Analytical Theory for Orbit Determination.
-Recursive Attitude Prediction.

-Appendices.
-Index