EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This year marked  the 29th anniversary of the AAS Rocky Mountain Section's Guidance and Control Conference. It was held in Breckenridge, Colorado at the Beaver Run Resort on February 4-8, 2005. Includes a CD-ROM.

(Extracted from the Preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-FOREWORD.
-PREFACE.
-SECTION I:
-ADVANCES IN GUIDANCE AND CONTROL
-GOES-R Image Navigation and Registration Performance Trade with Assistance of Spacecraft At i ude Determination Systems (AAS 06-022) A. Dean Chacon, Peter C. Lai, Geoffrey W. Dolan, Scott Sawyer, Richard B. Sherwood and Stephen Staich.
-Momentum System Concepts and Trades for the New Class of Smaller Lower Cost Satellites (AAS 06-023) Porter Davis.
-Fuel Efficient Relative Orbit Control Strategies for Formation Flying and
Rendezvous within PRISMA (AAS 06-025) Robin Larsson, Sten Berge, Per Bodin and Ulf Jönsson.
-Modeling and Parameter Estimation of Spacecraft Fuel Slosh (AAS 06-027) Keith Schlee, Sathya Gangadharan, James Ristow, James Sudermann, Charles Walker and Carl Hubert.
-Modern Momentum Systems for Spacecraft Attitude Control (AAS 06-028) Brian Hamilton and Brian Underhill.
-The NRL Program in X-Ray Navigation (XNAV) (AAS 06-029) Kent S. Wood.
-SECTION II:
-ADVANCES IN GUIDANCE AND CONTROL PART 2: THE FUTURE STATE
-From Mars Express Flight Experience to Venus Express Inflight Validation (AAS 06-031) A. Winton, P. Sivac and F. Geerling.
-MCS Revolution (AAS 06-032) F. Brent Abbott, Brian Hamilton, Thom Kreider, Pietro Di Leonardo and Dennis Smith.
-Turn and Burn—Deep Impact Impactor Autonomous Delta-V Maneuver
Execution (AAS 06-033) Lewis Kendall.
-Non linear Consider Covariance Analysis Using a Sigma-Point Filter Formulation (AAS 06-035) Michael E. Lisano.
-Trinity, An Omnidirectional Robotic Demonstrator for Reconfigurable
Computing (AAS 06-036) Samuel A. Miller, Arthur T. Bradley, Nathanael A. Miller and Robert F. Hodson.
-SECTION III:
-GPS AND SATELLITE NAVIGATION
-GNSS for LEO, GEO, HEO and Beyond (AAS 06-041) Michael S. Braasch and Maarten Uijt de Haag.
-Near Real Time GPS Navigation in the Inertial Frame (AAS 06-042) Lee Barker, Art Dorsey, Dennis McCarthy and James O’Toole.
-Near Real-Time Submeter Orbit Determination of the QuickBird Imaging
Satellite (AAS 06-043) Doug Engelhardt, Robert Kanick and Shunping Lee.
-Navigation Performance in High Earth Orbits Using Navigator GPS Receiver (AAS 06-045) William Bamford, Bo Naasz and Michael E. Moreau.
-GOES-R Stationkeeping and Momentum Management (AAS 06-046) Donald Chu, Derrick Early, Douglas Freesland, Alexander Krimchansky,
Bo Naasz, Alan Reth, Kumar Tadikonda, John Tsui and Tim Walsh.
-Analysis of Relative Navigation in Eccentric Orbits (AAS 06-047) Christopher Lane and Penina Axelrad.
-SECTION IV:
-SPACE EXPLORATION INITIATIVES
-The Future of Lunar Landing Systems (AAS 06-071) Linda Robeck Fuhrman.
-Entry, Descent and Landing Challenges of Human Mars Ex ploration (AAS 06-072) G. Wells, J. Lafleur, A.Verges, K. Manyapu, J. Christian, C. Lewis and R. Braun.
-Deployment of the Pascal Lander Network on the Mars Surface (AAS 06-074) Scott Mitchell and Robert Haberle.
-An Onboard Navigation Technique to Enable a Martian Atmospheric Capture (AAS 06-076) Lynn S. Diamant.
-Titan Explorer Entry, Descent and Landing Trajectory Design (AAS 06-077) Jody L. Fisher, Robert E. Lindberg and Mary Kae Lock wood.
-SECTION V:
-RECENT EXPERIENCES IN GUIDANCE AND CONTROL
-Deep Impact Autonomous Navigation: The Trials of Targeting the Unknown (AAS 06-081) Daniel G. Kubitschek, Nickolaos Mastrodemos, Robert A. Werner, Brian M. Kennedy, Stephen P. Synnott, George W. Null, Shyam Bhaskaran, Joseph E. Riedel and Andrew T. Vaughan.
-Cassini Orbit Determination: The Only Targeted Hyperion Flyby of the Prime Mission (AAS 06-082) K. E. Criddle, P. G. Antreasian, J. J. Bordi, R. A. Ionasescu, R. A. Jacobson, R. A. Mackenzie, D. W. Parcher, F. J. Pelletier and J. R. Stauch.
-On-Orbit Performance of the Gravity Probe B Drag-Free Translation Control System (AAS 06-083) W. J. Bencze, D. B. DeBra, L. Herman, T. Holmes, M. Adams, G. M. Keiser and C. W. F. Everitt.
-Deep Impact Attitude Estimator Design and Flight Performance (AAS 06-084) Michael E. Hughes and Charles N. Schira.
-SMART-1 Flight Experience: The First European Interplanetary Mission
With Electric Propulsion System (AAS 06-085) Per Bodin and Luca Stagnaro.
-Messenger IMU Interface Timing Issues and In-Flight Calibration Results
(AAS 06-086) Daniel J. O’Shaughnessy, Robin M. Vaughan, Dave R. Haley and Hongxing S. Shapiro.
-Anomalistic Disturbance Torques During the Entry Phase of the Mars Exploration Rover Missions – A Telemetry and Mars-Surface Investigation (AAS 06-087) Robert H. Tolson, William H. Willcockson, Prasun N. Desai and Paige Thomas.
-SECTION VI:
-GUIDANCE AND CONTROL TECHNICAL EXHIBITS
-Technical Exhibits – Summary.
-Darwin Precursor Demonstration Mission: The ICC2 Study, From GNC Design to Real-Time Test Bench Validation (AAS 06-051) L. Pirson, C. Charbonnel, B. Udrea, M. Rennie, P. McGuinness and P. Palomo.
-Real-Time Test Bench With Control Moment Gyro in the Loop (AAS 06-052) E. Montfort, M. Kessab, M. Rennie, D. P. McGuinness, P. Palomo, T. Zwartbol and B. A. Oving.
-Momentum Control System and Line-of-Sight Testbed (AAS 06-053) Brian Underhill and Brian Hamilton.
-APPENDICES.
-Publications of the American Astronautical Society.
-Advances in the Astronautical Sciences.
-Science and Technology Series.
-AAS History Series.
-INDEX.
-Numerical Index.
-Author Index