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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The 27th annual AAS Guidance and Control Conference was held in Breckenridge, Colorado on February 4-8, 2004. Includes a CD-ROM.

(Extracted from the Preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-FOREWORD.
-PREFACE.
-SECTION I:
-ADVANCES IN GUIDANCE AND CONTROL
-Reconfigurable Topologies for Decentralized Control of Spacecraft
Formations in Deep Space (AAS 04-001) Roy S. Smith and Fred Y. Hadaegh.
-A Miniaturised Star Tracker for Harsh Environments (AAS 04-004) S. P. Airey, L. Giulicchi, D. Procopio and D. Uwaerts.
-One Fixed Observatory; One Spinner; One Agile Observatory; One
Common ACMS Subsystem (AAS 04-005) Ian H. Rasmussen, David Guichon, Andrea Bacchetta, Marc Oort, Salvador Llorente and David Dungate.
-Formation Flight System Via Robust Control (AAS 04-006) Yunjun Xu and Norman Fitz-Coy.
-Compass Star Tracker for GPS Applications (AAS 04-007) Malak A. Samaan, Daniele Mortari and John L. Junkins.
-SECTION II:
-UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE GUIDANCE AND CONTROL
-Intelligent Guidance and Control for Unmanned Air Vehicles (AAS 04-011) James Lowrie, Omead Amidi and Laura Mills.
-Intelligent Control Systems and Vision Based Navigation to Enable
Autonomous Aerial Refueling of UAVs (AAS 04-012) John Valasek and John L. Junkins.
-Flight Testing the Automatic Air Collision Avoidance System (Auto ACAS) (AAS 04-013) James L. Less and Jefferson Chen.
-Coordination and Control Experiments for UAV Teams (AAS 04-014) Ellis King, Yoshiaki Kuwata, Mehdi Alighanbari and Jonathan How.
-A Comparison of Mars Airplane Guidance and Navigation Strategies
(AAS 04-015) Henry Wright and Robert Braun.
-Autonomous Flight Tests of a Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(AAS 04-016) Mark A. Motter and Michael J. Logan.
-The MarsFlyer Autonomous UAV (AAS 04-017) John S. Langford, Jean-Charles Ledé, Bob Parks, David Vos and Mark Croom.
-SECTION III:
-ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRECISION POINTING SPACECRAFT
-Nonlinear Observers for Gyro Calibration Coupled With a Nonlinear
Control Algorithm (AAS 04-021) Julie Thienel and Robert M. Sanner.
-Stability Analysis, Control Design, and Closed-Loop Dynamic Simulation of a Two-Spacecraft Electromagnetic Formation Flying Array (AAS 04-022) Laila Mireille Elias and David W. Miller.
-Practicable Gyroelastic Technology (AAS 04-023) Mason A. Peck and Andrew R. Cavender.
-Orbit Design for Phase I And II of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
(AAS 04-024) Steven P. Hughes.
-New Results From the Spacecraft Momentum Control and Line-of-Sight
Testbed (AAS 04-025) Mason A. Peck and Susan C. Kim.
-Precision Star Tracker for the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) (AAS 04-027) Takanori Iwata, Koshi Sato, Ryoichi Kashikawa, Hoshiko Takayasu and Makoto Yamamoto.
-Control Design for a Spacecraft With a Six Degree of Freedon Lorentz
Force Payload Isolator (AAS 04-028) Jay A. St. Pierre and Dale A. Lawrence.
-SECTION IV:
-GUIDANCE AND CONTROL STORYBOARD DISPLAYS
-MACS2 – The Magnetic Attitude Control Sub-System (AAS 04-032) Stephan Theil, Oliver Matthews, Thomas Morphopoulos, Kieran Carroll, Peter Offterdinger and Paul Graven.
-New Attitude Controller of Artemis Orbit Raising Phase and Operational
Phase (AAS 04-033) M. Surauer, R. Keeve and N. Ertongur.
-Behavior of Reaction Wheels Near Zero Speed (AAS 04-035) Eric Stromswold and Bill Bialke.
-Blueprint for an Integrated Vehicle Health Management System
(AAS 04-038) Gordon B. Aaseng.
-Attitude Measurement Sensor for Present and Future Spacecraft
(AAS 04-039) Marc Pochard, Carole Moussu, Dider Vilaire, Ludovic Blarre, Dominique Guillon, Benoit Gelin, Nicolas Perrimon, Philippe Jacob, Sylvain Thomas, C. W. de Boom, N. van der Heiden, Paul Da Cunha and Stein Strandmoe.
-SECTION V:
-BACK TO THE MOON
-The Saturn Launch Vehicle and its Guidance and Control (G&C) System
(AAS 04-061) Sherman M. Seltzer.
-Surveyor Spacecraft Automatic Landing System (AAS 04-062) Sam W. Thurman.
-Apollo Rendezvous Navigation (AAS 04-063) Richard Phillips and Peter Kachmar.
-Tales From the Lunar Module Guidance Computer (AAS 04-064) Don Eyles.
-Surfing the Lunar Prospector Gravity Gradient Wave (AAS 04-065)
Daniel Swanson.
-Lunar Orbit vs. Libration Point and Lunar Surface Rendezvous Methodologies for Human Lunar Missions (AAS 04-066) Gerald L. Condon and Sam W. Wilson.
-Europe En Route to the Moon: SMART-1 Mission Description and Early
Flight Data (AAS 04-067) G. D. Racca and L. Stagnaro.
-SECTION VI:
-RECENT EXPERIENCES IN GUIDANCE AND CONTROL
-Advances in Precision Pointing Control for NASA’s Spitzer Space
Telescope (AAS 04-071) David S. Bayard.
-PROTEUS Platform: JASON1 Flight Results, Design Evolution for Future
Missions, Next Applications (AAS 04-073) J. L. Beaupellet, D. Brethé, O. Faure, F. Raissiguier, P. Y. Renaud, O. Rouat, M. Sghedoni, M. Tello and Ph. Landiech.
-Terra Spacecraft Deep Space Calibration Maneuver Design and Execution (AAS 04-075) Jean Pierre Chamoun, Christopher Connor, Michael Paul Hughes, Robert P. Kozon, Eric Moyer and Richard E. Quinn.
-Gyroless Attitude Control for the SORCE Spacecraft (AAS 04-076) Grace C. Baird and Joseph E. Groszkiewicz.
-Laser Pointing Determination System for the Geoscience Laser Altimeter on ICESat. Initial In-Flight Performance Assessment (AAS 04-077) J. Marcos Sirota, Pamela S. Millar, Christopher T. Field, David K. Mostofi, Eleanor Ketchum, Claudia Carabajal and Scott Luthcke.
-Design and Flight Performance of a System for Rapid Attitude Maneuvers
by a Spinning Vehicle (AAS 04-078) Carl Hubert, Carlos Martinez and Jesus Martinez.
-APPENDICES.
-Publications of the American Astronautical Society.
-Advances in the Astronautical Sciences.
-Science and Technology Series.
-AAS History Series.
-INDEX.
-Numerical Index.
-Author Index