EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The 24nd Annual AAS Rocky Mountain Guidance and Control Conference was held in Breckenridge, Colorado at the Beaver Run Resort January 1 - February 4, 2001. This book contains the papers presented there.

(Extracted from the Preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Foreword. Robert D. Culp.

-Preface. Charlie Schira.

-Section I: Advances in Guidance and Control.

-Enabling Technology for NASA's Europa Orbiter Mission.
-A LEO Satellite Navigation Algorithm Based on GPS and Magnetometer Data.
-System to Attain Accurate Pointing Knowledge of the Geoscience Laser Altimeter.
-Lost-in-Space Pyramid Algorithm for Robust Star Pattern Recognition.
-Ascent Load Management Using Wind Look-Ahead Sensors.
-Geostationary GPS Based Navigation Using Pseudorange Fractional Part Measurements.
-Dynamic Hysteresis Model Application to Stiction Type Problems.
-Attitude Determination for the STEX Spacecraft Using Virtual Gyros.

-Section II: Autonomous and Remotely Piloted Terrestrial Landing.

-Testing the Primary X-33 Navigation System.
-X-33 Entry Flight Control Design by Trajectory Linerization-A Singular Perturbation Approach.
-X-34 Auto-Landing Guidance, Navigation and Control.
-New Methodologies for Assessing the Robustness of the X-34 Autolanding Trajectories.
-RADX34-A Future-X Demonstration of Autonomous Robust Abort Technologies on the X-34.
-X-38 Application of Dynamic Inversion Flight Control.
-The X-40A as a Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technology Demonstrator and Validation Tool.
-Design Challenges for Small Reusable Space Vehicles: The X-37 Experience.

-Section III: Landing On Planetary Bodies.

-Mars Exploration Rover Entry, Descent, and Landing System.
-Deep Impact: 19 Gigajoules Can Make Quite an Impression.
-Entry System Design Considerations for Mars Landers.
-Derivation of Hazard Testing of a Prototype Terrain-Relative Navigation System.

-Section IV: Guidance and Control Storyboard Displays.

-The Gyrowheel Development and Flight Qualification Program.
-Noise in Digital Simulations.
-Development of the HRG Based Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit for Long-Life Moderate and Precision Pointing Spacecraft.
-LN100S - Common Optical Payload and Bus Gyro Reference Assembly.
-Fuse Reaction Wheel Torque Anomaly Resolution.
-Star Tracker/IRU Attitude Determination Filters.
-Design of Radiation Tolerant Active Pixels in 0.35 picom CMOS Standard Process.

-Section V: Optical Control.

-Common Path/Common Mode Design Approach for the Airborne Laser System.
-Survey of Terrestrial Planet Finder Telescope Options.
-Modern Control Design of Thin Facesheet Adaptive Optics.
-In-Flight Calibration of an Airborne Wavefront Control Subsystem.
-Strategies for Fast Target Acquisition Handoffs.
-Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing of a Dynamic Target Using Compensated Beacons.

-Section VI: Recent Experiences in Guidance and Control.

-Sirius Satellite Design: The Challenges of the Tundra Orbit in Commercial Spacecraft Design.
-NEAR Shoemaker: Major Anomaly Survival, Delayed Rendezvous and Mission Success.
-Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 3A Rendezvous Operations.
-The Failures of the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander: A Perspective from the People Involved.
-Trajectory Design and Control for the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Re-Entry.
-XMM-Newton: In-Orbit Performance of the AOCS.
-On-Orbit ACDS Performance of the Landsat-7 Spacecraft.

-APPENDICES.

Publications of the American Astronautical Society.

-INDEX.

-Numerical Index.
-Author Index.