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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume in three parts presents the proceedings of the 14th Annual AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting held in Maui, Hawaii, February 8-12, 2004. It includes a CD-ROM.

(Extracted from the Press Release).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword.

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Part I:
-SPECIAL SESSION: SOLAR SAILS
-Sailcraft Coordinate Systems and Format for Reporting Propulsive Performance (AAS 04-100) Billy Derbes, David “Leo” Lichodziejewski, Jordan Ellis and Daniel Scheeres.
-Cosmos 1: The World’s First Solar Sail Spacecraft (AAS 04-101) L. Friedman V. M. Gotlib, V. M. Linkin, and A. N. Lipatov, K. M. Pitchkhadze,
V. A. Kudryashov, J. Cantrell, G. Delory and Austin Chertkow.
-The Geostorm Warning Mission: Enhanced Opportunities Based on New Technology (AAS 04-102) John L. West.
-NASA’s Integrated Development of Solar Sail Propulsion Project (AAS 04-103) Gregory Garbe, Edward E. Montgomery IV, Andrew F. Heaton,
John T. Van Sant and Bruce A. Campbell.
-Progress and Plans for System Demonstration of a Scalable Square Solar Sail (AAS 04-105) David Murphy, T. Trautt, M. McEachen, M. Eskenazi, D. Messner, G. Laue and P. Gierow.
-Solar Sail Geostorm Warning Mission Design (AAS 04-107) Chen-wan L. Yen.
-ORBITAL MECHANICS I
-A-B-Cs of Sun-Synchronous Orbit Mission Design (AAS 04-108) Ronald J. Boain.
-The Use of X-Ray Pulsars for Spacecraft Navigation (AAS 04-109) Suneel I. Sheikh, Darryll J. Pines, Paul S. Ray, Kent S. Wood, Michael N. Lovellette and Michael T. Wolff.
-Optimal Continuous Coverage of the Northern Hemisphere with Elliptical
Satellite Constellations (AAS 04-110) François Dufour.
-Precise Specialised Orbit Insertion and Maintenance for Small Earth-Observation Satellites (AAS 04-111) Manop Aorpimai and Phil L. Palmer.
-Recent Developments in the Models Used for Orbiter Lifetime Analysis
(AAS 04-112) Mark A. Vincent.
-Optimal Constellation Design for Orbital Munitions Delivery System (AAS 04-113) Jason Anderson and Steven G. Tragesser.
-CALIPSO’s Mission Design: Sun-Glint Avoidance Strategies (AAS 04-114) Laurie M. Mailhe, Conrad Schiff and John H. Stadler.
-SPECIAL SESSION: ACS SENSOR ALIGNMENT AND CALIBRATION
-Unscented Kalman Filtering for Spacecraft Attitude State and Parameter
Estimation (AAS 04-115) Matthew C. VanDyke, Jana L. Schwartz and Christopher D. Hall.
-Attitude Determination and Calibration with Redundant Inertial Measurement Units (AAS 04-116) Mark E. Pittelkau.
-Generic Procedure for Modeling Skewed Multiple-Axis Gyros (AAS 04-117) Peter C. Lai.
-ICESAT/GLAS Precision Attitude Determination for Early Laser Operation (AAS 04-118) Sungkoo Bae, Lori Magruder, Randall Ricklefs, Charles Webb, Sungpil Yoon and Bob Schutz.
-Autonomous Focal Plane Calibration By An Intelligent Radial Basis Function Network (AAS 04-119) Puneet Singla, Kamesh Subbarao, D. Todd Griffith and John L. Junkins.
-Attitude and Interlock Angle Estimation for the GIFTS Mission (AAS 04-120) Puneet Singla, D. Todd Griffith and John L. Junkins.
-Star Tracker Calibration and Attitude Control System Validation for Demeter Satellite (AAS 04-121) Jean Mignot, Jean-Marc Julio and Michel Le Du.
-System Identification of a Spherical Air-Bearing Spacecraft Simulator
(AAS 04-122) Jana L. Schwartz and Christopher D. Hall.
-SPECIAL SESSION: SPACE SURVEILLANCE PROCESSING
-AFSPC Astrodynamics Standard Software (AAS 04-124) Denise Kaya, Nancy Ericson and Major Donald Davis.
-DOD Laser Clearing House - Policy and Implementation (AAS 04-125)
Robert Morris and Steven Gabriel.
-Space Surveillance Network Automated Tasker (AAS 04-126) Beth L. Wilson.
-Tools and Databases Used to Maintain the Space Catalog at 1 SPCS With Historical Examples (AAS 04-127) Michael E. Stringer, Bob Teets and Robin Thurston.
-Space Surveillance Contributions to the STS 107 Accident Investigation
(AAS 04-128) T. S. Kelso, R. F. Morris, G. T. DeVere, J. C. Randolph, B. R. Bowman, R. A. Racca, N. L. Ericson and R. G. Thurston.
-INTERPLANETARY MISSIONS I
-Angle-of-Attack-Modulated Terminal Point Control for Neptune Aerocapture (AAS 04-129) Eric M. Queen.
-Design of Lunar Gravity-Assist for the BepiColombo Mission to Mercury
(AAS 04-130) Stefano Campagnola, Rüdiger Jehn and Carlos Corral Van Damme.
-Nozomi Earth Swingby Orbit Determination (AAS 04-131) Mark Ryne and Sumita Nandi.
-End-to-End Mission Analysis for a Low-Cost, Two-Spacecraft Mission to
Europa (AAS 04-132) Michael Khan, Stefano Campagnola and Michael Croon.
-Evaluation of an Energy-Cutoff Algorithm for the Saturn Orbit Insertion Burn of the Cassini-Huygens Mission (AAS 04-133) Troy Goodson.
-1-AU Calibration Activities for Stardust Earth Return (AAS 04-134) Brian M. Kennedy, Eric Carranza, and Kenneth E. Williams.
-Geometric Analysis of Visibility of Mission Support Infrastructure for Phobos and Deimos (AAS 04-135) William J. Chadwick III, David B. Spencer and Robert G. Melton.
-New Horizons Pluto Approach Navigation (AAS 04-136) James K. Miller, Dale R. Stanbridge and Bobby G. Williams.
-Options for Optimal Trajectory Design of a Mission to NEOs Using Low-Thrust Propulsion (AAS 04-137) Mauro Massari and Franco Bernelli-Zazzera.
-ATTITUDE DYNAMICS AND CONTROL I
-Time-Varying Potential Function Control for Constrained Attitude Tracking (AAS 04-138) Massimo Casasco and Gianmarco Radice.
-Attitude and Position Estimation from Vector Observations (AAS 04-140)
Daniele Mortari, J. Maurice Rojas and John L. Junkins.
-Spacecraft Attitude Estimation from Vector Observations Using a Fast
Particle Filter (AAS 04-141) Yaakov Oshman and Avishy Carmi.
-Flexible Space System States and Parameters Estimation (AAS 04-142)
Adriana Trigolo, Luiz Carlos Gadelha DeSouza and Helio Koiti Kuga.
-Spatial Structure of Attitude Uncertainty (AAS 04-143) Sergei Tanygin and Vincent Coppola.
-Attitude Determination and Control of a Nanosatellite Using the Geomagnetic Field Data and Sun Sensors (AAS 04-144) Phill-Sun Hur, Robert G. Melton and David B. Spencer.
-Equal-Chord Attitude Determination Method for Spinning Spacecraft
(AAS 04-145) Jozef C. van der Ha.
-OPTIMIZATION AND CONTROL I
-Global Search for Idealized Free-Return Earth-Mars Cyclers Using Minimax Optimization and Combinatorics (AAS 04-146) Ryan P. Russell and Cesar A. Ocampo.
-A Quadrature Discretization Method for Solving Optimal Control Problems (AAS 04-147) Paul Williams.
-An Embedded Function Tool for Modeling and Simulating Estimation
Problems in Aerospace Engineering (AAS 04-148) D. Todd Griffith, James D. Turner and John L. Junkins.
-A Study on the Guidance Correcting Law for the Aerodynamic Ascent Flight (AAS 04-149) Takayuki Yamamoto and Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi.
-Optimization of Stationkeeping for a Libration Point Mission (AAS 04-150) Samantha Infeld and Walter Murray.
-Adaptive Pulse Width Modulation (AAS 04-151) Fabio Curti, L. Ascani and Maurizio Parisse.
-Design of an Optimal Combination of Feedback and Iterative Learning
Controllers (AAS 04-153) Kanji Takanishi, Minh Q. Phan and Richard W. Longman.
-Dynamic Output Feedback Predictive Controllers for Vibration Suppression and Periodic Disturbance Rejection (AAS 04-154) Richard S. Darling and Minh Q. Phan.
-Dynamic Response of a System Driven by Thermal Actuation (AAS 04-155) Maurizio Parisse, Fabio Curti and Diego De Rosa.
-FORMATION FLYING I
-Aspherical Formations Near the Libration Points in the Sun-Earth/Moon
Ephemeris System (AAS 04-157) B. G. Marchand and K. C. Howell.
-Dynamics of Satellite Formations on Eccentric Orbits (AAS 04-158) Edwin Wnuk and Justyna Golebiewska.
-Characterization of the Relative Motion of Rendezvous Between Vehicles in Proximate, Highly Elliptic Orbits (AAS 04-159) Carrie Dumas Olsen and Wallace Fowler.
-Design and Control of Libration Point Satellite Formations (AAS 04-161)
S. R. Vadali, H.-W. Bae and K. T. Alfriend.
-The Development of High Fidelity Linearized J2 Models for Satellite
Formation Flying Control (AAS 04-162) Jennifer A. Roberts and Peter C. E. Roberts.
-Development of a State Transition Matrix for Relative Motion Using the
Unit Sphere Approach (AAS 04-163) Hui Yan, Prasenjit Sengupta, Srinivas R. Vadali and Kyle T. Alfriend.
-Criteria for Best Configuration and Sub-Optimal Reconfiguration for MMS
Mission (AAS 04-152) Dong-Woo Gim and Kyle T. Alfriend.
-TETHER SATELLITE SYSTEMS
-Probability of Detecting a Tethered Satellite System (AAS 04-164) Nammi Jo Choe, John E. Cochran, Jr. and Jung Hyun Jo.
-Identification of a Tethered Satellite Using a Kalman Filter (AAS 04-165) D. A. Cicci, E. J. Volovecky and C. Qualls.
Command Generation for Tether Retrieval (AAS 04-166) Michael Robertson and William Singhose.
-Equilibrium to Equilibrium Maneuvers of Electrodynamic Tethers (AAS 04-167) Kalyan K. Mankala, Sunil K. Agrawal and Peter Hagedorn.
-A Low-Cost Mission for Testing In-Orbit a Passive Electrodynamic Tether
De-Orbiting System (AAS 04-168) P. Tortora, L. Somenzi, L. Iess and R. Licata.
-Guidance and Control of Tethered Satellite Systems Using Pseudospectral Methods (AAS 04-169) Paul Williams.
-Dynamical Effects of Solar Radiation Pressure on a Spinning Tether System for Interferometry (AAS 04-170) Claudio Bombardelli, Enrico C. Lorenzini and Marco B. Quadrelli. Space Tethers as Testbeds for Spacecraft Formation-Flying (AAS 04-171) Mario L. Cosmo, Enrico C. Lorenzini and Claudio Bombardelli.
Effect of Damping on Planar Spin-Up Dynamics of Artificial-Gravity-Generating Tethered Satellite System (AAS 04-172) Andre P. Mazzoleni and John H. Hoffman.