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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume in three parts presents the proceeding of the 13th Annual AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting held in San Antonio, Texas, February 9-13, 2003. It includes a CD-ROM.

(Extracted from the Press Release).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword.

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Part II:
-ATTITUDE DETERMINATION AND CONTROL – MISSIONS.
-Messenger Spacecraft Pointing Options (AAS 03-149), Daniel J. O’Shaughnessy and Robin M. Vaughan.
-CONTOUR Phasing Orbits: Attitude Determination and Control Concepts and Flight Results (AAS 03-150), Jozef van der Ha, Gabe Rogers, Wayne Dellinger and James Stratton.
-Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing of Bifocal Relay Mirror Spacecraft (AAS 03-151), Brij N. Agrawal.
-In-Flight Performance and Calibration of the Autonomous Minisatellite PROBA (AAS 03-152), Jean de Lafontaine, Jean-Roch Lafleur, Isabelle Jean, Pieter Van den Braembussche and Pierrik Vuilleumier.
-Attitude Sensor Alignment and Calibration for the Timed Spacecraft (AAS 03-153), Mark E. Pittelkau and Wayne F. Dellinger.
-Modeling and Analysis for Nutation Time Constant Determination of On-Axis Diaphragm Tanks on Spinners: Application to the Deep Space One Spacecraft (AAS 03-155), Marco B. Quadrelli.
-Modeling of MARSIS Segmented Booms and Prediction of In-Flight Dynamics of the Mars Express Spacecraft (AAS 03-156), Edward Mettler and Marco B. Quadrelli.
-NAVIGATION AND CONTROL.
-Numerical Solution to the Small-Body Hovering Problem (AAS 03-157), S. Broschart and D. J. Scheeres.
-Development of Spacecraft Orbit Determination and Navigation Using Solar Doppler Shift (AAS 03-159), Andrew J. Sinclair, Troy A. Henderson, John E. Hurtado and John L. Junkins.
-Mutibody Parachute Flight Simulations for Planetary Entry Trajectories Using "Equilibrium Points" (AAS 03-163), Ben Raiszadeh.
-ORBIT DETERMINATION.
-Real-Time Estimation of Local Atmospheric Density (AAS 03-164), James R. Wright.
-Comparison of MSIS and Jacchia Atmospheric Density Models for Orbit Determination and Propagation (AAS 03-165), Keith A. Akins, Liam M. Healy, Shannon L. Coffey and J. Michael Picone.
-Implementing the MSIS Atmospheric Density Model in OCEAN (AAS 03-166), Lisa A. Policastri and Joseph M. Simons.
-A Validation of Atmospheric Density Determination From LORAAS Ultraviolet Spectra By Comparison With HASDM Satellite Drag Measurements (AAS 03-167), S. H. Knowles, A. C. Nicholas, S. E. Thonnard, J. M. Picone, K. F. Dymond and S. McCoy.
-Brightness Loss of GPS Block II and IIA Satellites on Orbit (AAS 03-169), Frederick J. Vrba, Henry F. Fliegel and Lori F. Warner.
-Comparison of Accuracy Assessment Techniques for Numerical Integration (AAS 03-171), Matthew M. Berry and Liam M. Healy.
-SPACE-BASED INTERFEROMETRY.
-Formation Path Planning for Optimal Fuel and Image Quality for a Class of Interferometric Imaging Missions (AAS 03-172), I. I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres, D. C. Hyland.
-Worst Case and Mean Squared Performance of Imaging Systems: A Feature-Based Approach (AAS 03-173), Suman Chakravorty, Pierre T. Kabamba and David C. Hyland.
-Interferometric Observatories in Earth Orbit (AAS 03-174), I. I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres, D. C. Hyland.
-Design of Spacecraft Formation Orbits Relative to a Stabilized Trajectory (AAS 03-175), F. Y. Hsiao and D. J. Scheeres.
-Optimal Coordination of Mobile Agents: Application to Space-Based Interferometers (AAS 03-176), Venkatesh G. Rao and Pierre T. Kabamba.
-Probabilistic Controller Analysis and Synthesis: The Method of HPD Inscription (AAS 03-177), Hiroaki Fukuzawa and Pierre T. Kabamba.
-CONSTELLATIONS.
-Walker Constellations to Minimize Revisit Time in Low Earth Orbit (AAS 03-178), Thomas J. Lang.
-Daily Repeat-Groundtrack Mars Orbits (AAS 03-179), Gary Noreen, Stuart Kerridge, Roger Diehl, Joseph Neelon, Todd Ely and Andrew E. Turner.
-Single Satellite Orbital Figure-of-Merit (AAS 03-180), John L. Young III, David W. Carter, John E. Draim and Paul J. Cefola.
-Drag and Stability of a Low Perigee Satellite (AAS 03-182), Joseph R. Schultz and Mark J. Lewis.
-ORBITAL DEBRIS.
-Improved Analytical Expressions for Computing Spacecraft Collision Probabilities (AAS 03-184), Ken Chan.
-Risk of Collision for the Navigation Constellations: The Case of the Forthcoming Galileo (AAS 03-185), A. Rossi, G. B. Valsecchi and E. Perozzi.
-The 2002 Italian Optical Observations of the Geosynchronous Region (AAS 03-186), Manfredi Porfilio, Fabrizio Piergentili and Filippo Graziani.
-A Geometrical Approach to Determine Blackout Windows at Launch (AAS 03-187), V. Rabaud and B. Deguine.
-Orbital Debris Analysis of Timed Spacecraft Mission (AAS 03-188), S. S. Badesha, S. K. Dion and R. E. O’Hara.
-ATTITUDE DETERMINATION AND DYNAMICS.
-Conformal Mapping Among Orthogonal, Symmetric, and Skew-Symmetric Matrices (AAS 03-190), Daniele Mortari.
-Spacecraft Angular Rate Estimation Algorithms for Star Tracker-Based Attitude Determination (AAS 03-191), Puneet Singla, John L. Crassidis and John L. Junkins.
-Autonomous Artificial Neural Network Star Tracker for Spacecraft Attitude Determination (AAS 03-192), Aaron J. Trask and Victoria L. Coverstone.
-An Analysis of the Quaternion Attitude Determination Filter (AAS 03-194), Mark E. Pittelkau.
-Attitude Interpolation (AAS 03-197), Sergei Tanygin.
-NAVIGATION AND ORBIT DETERMINATION – OPERATIONS I.
-Reconstruction of the Voyager Saturn Encounter Orbits in the ICRF System (AAS 03-198), Robert A. Jacobson.
-Satellite Ephemerides Update Schedule for the Cassini Mission (AAS 03-199), Ian Roundhill and Duane Roth.
-Cassini Navigation During Solar Conjunctions Via Removal of Solar Plasma Noise (AAS 03-200), P. Tortora, L. Iess, J. J. Bordi, J. E. Ekelund and D. Roth.
-Interplanetary Navigation During ESA’s BepiColombo Mission to Mercury (AAS 03-201), Rüdiger Jehn, Juan L. Cano, Carlos Corral and Miguel Belló-Mora.
-Genesis Trajectory and Maneuver Design Strategies During Early Flight (AAS 03-202), Roby S. Wilson and Kenneth E. Williams.
-Orbit Determination Support for the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) (AAS 03-203), Son H. Truong, Osvaldo O. Cuevas and Steven Slojkowski.
-Navigating CONTOUR Using the Noncoherent Transceiver Technique (AAS 03-204), Eric Carranza, Anthony H. Taylor, Dongsuk Han, Cliff E. Helfrich, Ramachand Bhat and Jamin S. Greenbaum.
-Estimating General Relativity Parameters From Radiometric Tracking of Heliocentric Trajectories (AAS 03-205), Ryan S. Park, Daniel J. Scheeres, Giacomo Giampieri, James M. Longuski and Ephraim Fischback.