EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This year marked the 25th anniversary of the AAS Rocky Mountains Section's Guidance and Control Conference. It was held in Breckenridge, Colorado at the Beaver Run Resort on Febrary 6-10, 2002.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword.

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Section I: Advances in Guidance and Control.

-Prototype Maneuver Decomposition Algorithm for Genesis.
-Satellite Attitude Estimation Using a Two-Step Optimal Estimator.
-Momentum Bias for Spacecraft Attitude.
-Preliminary Results of the GPS Flight Experiment on the High Earth Orbit AMSAT-OSCAR 40 Spacecraft.
-Preliminary Optimal Orbit Design for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.
-Improved Pointing Techniques for Modern Geosynchronous Spacecraft.

-Section II: Fault Tolerance and Safing Approaches in Guidance and Control.

-Aerobraking Safing Approach for 2001 Mars Odyssey.
-Deep Impact: ACS Fault Tolerance in a Comet Critical Encounter.
-Harnessing a SPIDER: Fault Protection, Software Reuse, and the Genesis Spacecraft.
-Fault Detection Design and Experience for NMP Earth Observing 1.
-Angular Momentum-Based Safing Attitude Control: An Approach and Experiences of ISAS' Spacecraft.

-Section III: Image Processing for Guidance and Control.

-Determination of Landmark Topography from Imaging Data.
-Image-Based Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Muses-C Sample and Return Spacecraft.
-Descent-Speed Testing of a Hazard Detection Sysem for Safe Landing on Mars.
-Image Processing Approach for Comet Nucleus Tracking by CONTOUR's CRISP Instrument.

-Section IV: Guidance and Control Storyboard Displays.

-A Sounding Rocket Active Stabilization Control Experiment.
-Performance Characteristics of the Multi-Mission Earth Sensor for Challenging, High-Radiation Environments.
-Northrop Grumann's Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit: Innovations Reduced to Practice.
-Credibility of GP-B's Gyroscope Test of General Relativity.
-The Gyrowheel Testing and Flight Qualification Program.
-Attitude Determination and Control for the Kepler Spacecraft.
-The A-STR Ready to Fly.
-The APS Based Smart Sun Sensor.

-Section V: Multipurpose G&C Hardware Innovations.

-A Dual Function Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Device for Angular Motion Measurement and Control.
-A Multi-Function Guidance, Navigation and Control System for Future Earth and Space Science Missions.
-Energy Storage Flywheels on Spacecraft.
-A Shaftless Magnetically Levitated Flywheel for Spacecraft Multifunctional Energy Storage and Attitude Control Subsystem Applications.

-Section VI: Recent Experiences in Guidance and Control.

-International Space Station GN&C: First Year Surprises.
-Deep Space 1 Flight Experience: Adventures on an Ion Drive.
-X-38 Vehicle 131R Free Flights 1, 2 & 3: FCS and Aerodynamics Lessions Learned.
-Microwave Anisotropy Probe Launch and Early Operation.
-Performance of the SR-XM-1 Flight Control System.
-Performance of the NEAR G&C System During Cruise, Eros Orbit, and Controlled Descent.