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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume in two parts presents the proceedings of the 15th Annual AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting held in Copper Mountain, Colorado, January 23-27, 2005. It includes a CD-ROM.

(Extracted from the Press Release).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword.

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Part I.
-FORMATION FLYING I.
-Optimal Low-Thrust Reconfiguration for Satellites in Formation (AAS 05-101) Christopher J. Scott and David B. Spencer.
-Application of a Relative Motion Guidance Algorithm to Formation Reassignment (AAS 05-102) Johnathan F. Berryman and T. Alan Lovell.
-Optimal Configuration of Spacecraft Formations Via a Gauss Pseudospectral Method (AAS 05-103) Geoffrey T. Huntington and Anil V. Rao.
-Static Equilibrium Configurations in GEO Coulomb Spacecraft Formations (AAS 05-104) John Berryman and Hanspeter Schaub.
-ATTITUDE I.
-Observability and Calibration of a Redundant Inertial Measurement Unit (RIMU) (AAS 05-105) Mark E. Pittelkau.
-Autonomous Generation of Guidance Profiles for Constrained, Minimum-Time, Large-Angle Attitude Manoeuvres (AAS 05-106) Jean de Lafontaine and Catherine Le Peuvédic.
-Ground Based Satellite Attitude Estimator (AAS 05-107) Narendra Gollu and Yuri Kim.
-High Frequency Attitude Motion of ICESat (AAS 05-108) SungPil Yoon, Sungkoo Bae, and Bob E. Schutz.
-INTERPLANETARY I.
-Exploration of Distant Retrograde Orbits Around Europa (AAS 05-110) Try Lam and Gregory J. Whiffen.
-Low Energy Interplanetary Transfers Using Halo Orbit Hopping Method with STK/Astrogator (AAS 05-111) Tapan R. Kulkarni and Daniele Mortari.
-Venus and Mars Gravity-Assist Trajectories to Jupiter Using Nuclear Electric Propulsion (AAS 05-112) Daniel W. Parcher and Jon A. Sims.
-Orbit Determination Results for the Cassini Titan-A Flyby (AAS 05-113) Ian M. Roundhill, Peter G. Antreasian, Kevin E. Criddle, Rodica Ionasescu,
M. Cameron Meek and Jason R. Stauch.
-Thrust Vector Control of the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Spacecraft (AAS 05-114) Marco B. Quadrelli, Edward Mettler, Jerry K. Langmaier and Konstantin Gromov.
-A Novel Approach to Planetary Precision Landing Using Parafoils (AAS 05-115) Marco B. Quadrelli.
-GENESIS I.
-Genesis Earth Return: Refined Strategies and Flight Experience (AAS 05-116) Kenneth E. Williams, George D. Lewis, Roby S. Wilson, Clifford E. Helfrich and Christopher L. Potts.
-Genesis Orbit Determination for Earth Return and Atmospheric Entry (AAS 05-117) Geoffrey Wawrzyniak, Dongsuk Han, George Lewis, Eric Graat, Darren Baird and Diane Craig.
-Entry, Descent, and Landing Operations Analysis for the Genesis Re-Entry Capsule (AAS 05-121) Prasun N. Desai and Dan T. Lyons.
-SPACE SURVEILLANCE.
-Comparison of Collision Risk from COLA and Kinetic Gas Theory for Sun-Synchronous Orbits (AAS 05-123) Glenn E. Peterson.
-Satellite Orbital Conjunction Reports Assessing Threatening Encounters in Space (SOCRATES) (AAS 05-124) T. S. Kelso and Salvatore Alfano.
-Cataloging with an Upgraded Space Surveillance Fence (AAS 05-125) Felix R. Hoots, Geoffrey S. Pierce, Lester Ford and Hugh Hadley.
-The Validation of SimFence - A Simulation of the Air Force Space Surveillance System (AAS 05-126) Shannon Coffey, Keith Akins, Michael Zedd, Bernie Kelm, Byron Summers, Alan Segerman, Felix Hoots, Geoff Pierce, Timothy Cox and Hugh Hadley.
-Estimating the Error Variance of Space Surveillance Sensors (AAS 05-127) John H. Seago, Mark A. Davis and Walter Reed Smith IV.
-OPTIMIZATION I.
-A Comparison of Differentiation and Integration Based Direct Transcription Methods (AAS 05-128) Paul Williams.
-A Robust Algorithm for Solving Unconstrained Two-Point Boundary Value
Problems (AAS 05-129) C. F. Minter and T. J. Fuller-Rowell.
-A Shape Based Approach to Spacecraft Trajectories: Analysis and Optimization (AAS 05-130) Prashant Patel, Daniel Scheeres and Thomas Zurbuchen.
-Hermite-Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto Direct Transcription Methods in Trajectory Optimization (AAS 05-131) Paul Williams.
-Incorporating Observability into Trajectory Optimization (AAS 05-132) Scott Zimmer, Cesar Ocampo and Robert Bishop.
-Kinematics of N-Dimensional Principal Rotations (AAS 05-133) Andrew J. Sinclair, John E. Hurtado and John L. Junkins.
-ORBIT DETERMINATION.
-Geosynchronous Orbit Determination Using High Accuracy Angular Observations (AAS 05-135) Benjamin Visser, Chris Sabol and Scott R. Dahlke.
-Orbit Determination During High Thrust and Low Thrust Maneuvers (AAS 05-136) Richard S. Hujsak.
-Using HANDS to Augment AFSCN Tracking (AAS 05-137) Megan J. Quick, Michael J. Gabor and Chris Sabol.
-ICESat Precision Orbit Determination Over Solar Storm Period (AAS 05-138) Hyung-Jin Rim, Sung-Pil Yoon, Yuchan Kim and Bob E. Schutz.
-Low Earth Orbit Prediction Accuracy Assessment Using Optical Data
(AAS 05-139) David Wiese and Chris Sabol.
-NEO AND LUNAR MISSIONS.
-On the Deflection of Potentially Hazardous Objects (AAS 05-141) Dario Izzo.
-Analysis and Identification of Three-Asteroid (NEO) Rendezvous Missions
(AAS 05-142) Scott Mitchell.
-Trajectory Design for a Lunar Mission to Map, and Return Samples From,
the South Pole - Aitken Basin (AAS 05-143) David W. Dunham and Daniel P. Muhonen.
-Landing Uncontrolled Probes on Airless Bodies (AAS 05-144) Jeffrey Van Cleve and Scott Mitchell.
- Laboratory Demonstration of Fuel Optimal, Hazard Avoidance Techniques for Autonomous Planetary Landing (AAS 05-145) Karina Lebel, David Neveu, Charles-Étienne Lemay , Jean de Lafontaine and Charles-Antoine Brunet.
-Augmentations to the Polyhedral Gravity Model to Facilitate Small Body
Navigation (AAS 05-146) L. Alberto Cangahuala.
-Strategies for Near Earth Object Impact Hazard Mitigation (AAS 05-147)
Dario Izzo, Cristina de Negueruela, Franco Ongaro and Roger Walker.
-CONSTELLATIONS.
-Satellite Constellation Design for Earth Observation (AAS 05-148) Ossama Abdelkhalik and Daniele Mortari.
-Optimization of Hybrid Satellite and Constellation Design to Achieve GEOBelt Space Situational Awareness Using Genetic Algorithms (AAS 05-149) Eugene G. Fahnestock and R. Scott Erwin.
-A Distributed Global Optimiser Applied to the Design of a Constellation
Performing Radio-Occultation Measurements (AAS 05-150) Dario Izzo, Mihály Csaba Markót and Isabelle Nann.
-Synodic and Relative Flower Constellations with Applications to Planetary
Explorations (AAS 05-151) Daniele Mortari, Ossama Abdelkhalik and Christian Bruccoleri.
-Satellite Stationkeeping of the ORBCOMM Constellation Via Active Control of Atmospheric Drag: Operations, Constraints, and Performance (AAS 05-152) Timothy D. Maclay and Christopher Tuttle.
-Strategy for Satisfying Distance Constraints for the NASA Benchmark
Tetrahedron Constellation (AAS 05-153) Pedro A. Capó-Lugo and Peter M. Bainum.
-Streets of Coverage Constellations to Minimize Revisit Time in Low Earth Orbit (AAS 05-154) Thomas J. Lang.
-Formation Flying II.
-A Comparison of Relative Motion Models for Close Proximity Satellite Missions (AAS 05-155) Rebecca Lynne Johnson and Thomas Alan Lovell.
-Formation Flying Concept for Close Remote Sensing Satellites (AAS 05-156) Simone D’Amico, Oliver Montenbruck, Christian Arbinger and Hauke Fiedler.
-On-Orbit Satellite Rendezvous Inspection: A Concept Study and Design
(AAS 05-157) David Woffinden, David Geller, Todd Mosher and Jeff Kwong.
-A Direct Method for Fuel Optimal Maneuvers of Distributed Spacecraft in
Multiple Flight Regimes (AAS 05-158) Steven P. Hughes, D. S. Cooley and Jose J. Guzman.
-On the Fuel Optimality of Maneuvers for Multi-Spacecraft Interferometric
Imaging Systems (AAS 05-159) Suman Chakravorty.
-Optimal Formation Control for Imaging and Fuel Usage (AAS 05-160) Islam I. Hussein, Daniel J. Scheeres and David C. Hyland.
-IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROLS.
-Modeling and Control of Interferometric Formations in the Vicinity of the
Collinear Libration Points (AAS 05-161) Prasenjit Sengupta and Srinivas R. Vadali.
-Refinements to the Q-Law for Low-Thrust Orbit Transfers (AAS 05-162)
Anastassios E. Petropoulos.
-A Robust Nonlinear System Identification Algorithm Using Orthogonal
Polynomial Network (AAS 05-163) Puneet Singla, Troy Henderson, John L. Junkins and John E. Hurtado.
-Experiment Design Using Iterative Learning Control for Improved Identification of Linear Systems (AAS 05-164) Richard W. Longman and Minh Q. Phan.
-Inverse Dynamics Approach for Real-Time Optimal Control of Robots
(AAS 05-165) Jie Zhao, Richard W. Longman, Hans Georg Bock and Moritz Diehl.
-Results of Generating Classical Compensators Via Linear Quadratic Design with a Minimum Realization of the Compensator (AAS 05-166) Donald L. Mackison.