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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume in two parts presents the proceedings of the 16th Annual AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting held in Westin Innisbruck Golf Resort, Tampa, Florida, January 22-26, 2006. It includes a CD-ROM.

(Extracted from the Press Release).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword.

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Part I.
-ATTITUDE DYNAMICS AND CONTROL I
-A New Attitude Maneuver Using Kinematics and Dynamics of Non-Holonomic Turn (AAS 06-100) Osamu Mori and Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi.
-Three-Dimensional Attitude Dynamics of Satellites Orbiting Asteroids
(AAS 06-101) Yulia Panchenko and Arun K. Misra.
-Inflight Estimations of Cassini Spacecraft Inertia Tensor and Thruster Magnitude (AAS 06-102) Antonette Feldman and Allan Y. Lee.
-Three-Axis Magnetic Attitude Control Using Pseudospectral Control Law in Eccentric Orbits (AAS 06-103) Hui Yan and Kyle T. Alfriend.
-Direct Linearization of Continuous Dynamical Systems (AAS 06-104) Julie M. Jones, John E. Hurtado and Andrew J. Sinclair.
-Parametric Optimization of Closed-Loop Slew Control using Interpolation
Polynomials (AAS 06-105) Sergei Tanygin.
-ATTITUDE ESTIMATION
-Star Tracker Misalignment Calibration for the ICESat Mission (AAS 06-107) Sungkoo Bae, Charles E. Webb and Bob E. Schutz.
-Kalman Filter Design for JWST Spacecraft Attitude Determination System (AAS 06-108) Peter C. Lai, Sung K. Park and Frank C. Tung.
-Planet or Moon Image Processing for Spacecraft Attitude Estimation
(AAS 06-109) Keun Joo Park and Daniele Mortari.
-Advances in Attitude Determination With Redundant Inertial Measurement Units (AAS 06-110) Mark E. Pittelkau.
-Sensing Element Evaluation for the JIMO Sun Sensor (AAS 06-111) Sergei A. Jerebets.
-Structured Observability for Skewed Redundant IMU Filtering (AAS 06-112) Robert M. Rogers.
-Symplectic Attitude Estimation for Small Satellites (AAS 06-113) James M. Valpiani and Philip L. Palmer.
-MISSION ANALYSIS I
-Abort Options for Human Lunar Missions Between, Earth Orbit and Lunar
Vicinity (AAS 06-114) Gerald L. Condon, Juan S. Senent and Eduardo García Llama.
-Analysis of Manipulator Operations for Orbiter Tile Repair (AAS 06-115)
Elizabeth M. Bains, Rose M. Flores, Kwun Ki Siu, Billy G. Draeger and
Andrew J. Testa.
-Approximations of Distant Retrograde Orbits for Mission Design (AAS 06-116) Anil N. Hirani and Ryan P. Russell.
-Characterization of Feasibility, Methods, and Requirements for Lunar Mission Abort Trajectories (AAS 06-117) E. David Beksinski, Jr., Ryan P. Starkey and Mark J. Lewis.
-The Mars Telecommunications Orbiter: A Key Asset in the Mars Network
(AAS 06-118) Fernando Abilleira.
-FORMATION FLYING I
-Analysis and Control of Convenient Orbital Configuration for Formation Flying Missions (AAS 06-120) Marco Sabatini, Giovanni B. Palmerini and Dario Izzo.
-Autonomous Satellite Formation Flying for the PRISMA Technology Demonstration Mission (AAS 06-121) Eberhard Gill, Oliver Montenbruck, Simone D’Amico and Staffan Persson.
-Constraint Based Control Method for Precision Formation Flight of Spacecraft (AAS 06-122) Try Lam, Aaron Schutte and Firdaus E. Udwadia.
-Coulomb Spacecraft Voltage Study Due to Differential Orbital Perturbations (AAS 06-123) Christopher C. Romanelli, Arun Natarajan, Hanspeter Schaub, Gordon G. Parker and Lyon B. King.
-The Relative Position Control in Formation Flying Satellites Using Super-Conducting Magnets (AAS 06-124) Ryosuke Kaneda, Shin-ichiro Sakai, Tatsuaki Hashimoto and Hirobumi Saito.
-Stationkeeping for Leader-Follower Satellites, in an Elliptical Orbit (AAS 06-125) Daero Lee and John E. Cochran, Jr.
-Fusing Inertial and Relative Range Measurements for Inertial Navigation in the Presence of Large State Error Covariances (AAS 06-126) Paul J. Huxel and Robert H. Bishop.
-ORBIT MECHANICS I
-An Efficient Strategy for Targeting Ballistic Lunar Capture Trajectories
(AAS 06-129) Paul Ricord Griesemer and Cesar Ocampo.
-Spacecraft Formation-Keeping Using Closed-Form Orbit Propagator and
Optimization Technique (AAS 06-130) Tae Soo No, Jae Gye Lee and John E. Cochran, Jr.
-Finding Ballistic Captures Around Europa (AAS 06-131) K. Drescher, Z. Getachew, S. Lutz, L. To, M. W. Lo and B. F. Villac.
-Families of Low-Energy Lunar Halo Orbit Transfers (AAS 06-132) Jeffrey S. Parker.
-Very Low-Thrust Optimal Transfers From GTO to GEO (AAS 06-133)
Jesús Gil-Fernandez, Lorenzo Tarabini and Mariella Graziano.
-Implementation Issues Surrounding the New IAU Reference Systems for
Astrodynamics (AAS 06-134) David A. Vallado, John H. Seago and P. Kenneth Seidelmann.
-ORBIT DETERMINATION
-A Nonlinearity Measure for Estimation Systems (AAS 06-135) Andrew J. Sinclair, John E. Hurtado and John L. Junkins.
-Uncertainty Control Utilizing Natural Dynamics in Hamiltonian Systems
(AAS 06-136) F. Y. Hsiao and D. J. Scheeres.
-Angles-Only Orbit Updates for Low Earth Satellites (AAS 06-137) Kyle T. Alfriend and David Wiese.
-Determination of Clustered Satellite Maneuvers Via Relative Motion
(AAS 06-138) Jill Tombasco, Doug Presley, Chris Sabol and Tara Storch.
-In-Orbit Identification of Drag-Free Satellite Dynamics (AAS 06-140)
Waldemar de Castro Leite Filho, Stephan Theil and Michel Silas Guilherme.
-Atmospheric Drag Model for Cassini Orbit Determination During Low Altitude Titan Flybys (AAS 06-141) F. J. Pelletier, P. G. Antreasian, J. J. Bordi, K. E. Criddle, R. Ionasescu, R. A. Jacobson, R. A. Mackenzie, D. W. Parcher and J. R. Stauch.
-Long Arc Analysis of GPS Orbits (AAS 06-142) Laurent Froideval and Bob E. Schutz.
-ATTITUDE DYNAMICS AND CONTROL II
-Converting Repetitive Control into Stable Learning Control by Iterative
Adjustment of Initial State (AAS 06-143) Benjamas Panomruttanarug and Richard W. Longman.
-Tuning and Performance of Robust Multiple-Period Repetitive Control
(AAS 06-144) Richard W. Longman, Joe W. Yeol and Yeong S. Ryu.
-Analysis and Demonstration: A Proof-of-Concept Compass Star Tracker
(AAS 06-145) Michael J. Swanzy, Daniele Mortari, John E. Hurtado and John L. Junkins.
-Localization on Small Body Surface by Radio Ranging (AAS 06-148)
Sayaka Higo, Tetsuo Yoshimitsu and Ichiro Nakatani.
-Performance Analysis of Control Algorithms for FalconSat-3 (AAS 06-149) Paul C. Tisa and Paul Vergez
-OPTIMIZATION I
-A Simple Technique for Low-Thrust High-Accuracy Trajectory Optimization (AAS 06-150) I. Michael Ross, Qi Gong and Pooya Sekhavat.
-Autonomous Pseudospectral Knotting Methods for Space Mission Optimization (AAS 06-151) Qi Gong and I. Michael Ross.
-Automating Trade Studies for Optimal Interplanetary Electric Propulsion Missions (AAS 06-152) Prashant Patel, Daniel Scheeres, Alec Gallimore and Thomas Zurbuchen.
-Constrained Trajectory Optimization for Lunar Landing (AAS 06-153) Alisa M. Hawkins, Thomas J. Fill, Ronald J. Proulx and Eric M. J. Feron.
-Interplanetary Mission Design Using Differential Evolution (AAS 06-155)
Aaron D. Olds, Craig A. Kluever and Michael L. Cupples.
-Primer Vector Theory Applied to Global Low-Thrust Trade Studies (AAS 06-156) Ryan P. Russell.
-FORMATION FLYING II
-A Study on Formation Control with Relative Information and Information
Propagation Structure of System (AAS 06-157) Takanao Saiki and Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi.
-Decentralized, Low-Communication State Estimation and Optimal Guidance of Formation Flying Spacecraft (AAS 06-158) Dan Dumitriu, Sónia Marques Pedro U. Lima and Bogdan Udrea.
-LQR Control Schemes to Satisfy the Separation Distance Constraints for the NASA Benchmark Tetrahedron Constellations (AAS 06-159) Pedro A. Capó-Lugo, and Peter M. Bainum.
-Robust Stationkeeping Control for Libration Point Orbits (AAS 06-160)
Yunjun Xu and Shankar Suman.
-Formation Design and Geometry for Keplerian Elliptic Orbits With Arbitrary Eccentricity (AAS 06-161) Prasenjit Sengupta and Srinivas R. Vadali.
-Periodic Relative Motion Near a Keplerian Elliptic Orbit With Nonlinear
Differential Gravity (AAS 06-162) Prasenjit Sengupta and Srinivas R. Vadali.
-Numerical Searches and Optimal Control of J2 Invariant Orbits (AAS 06-163) Hui Yan and Kyle T. Alfriend.
-Fuel Optimal Spiral Maneuvers for Multi-Spacecraft Interferometric Imaging Systems in Deep Space (AAS 06-164) Jaime L. Ramirez and Suman Chakravorty.
-ORBIT MECHANICS II
-Hamilton’s Principal Function for the Two-Body Problem Solution (AAS 06-165) Oier Peñagaricano Muñoa and Daniel J. Scheeres.
-Autonomous Regulation of Spacecraft Motion About Unstable Periodic Orbits Using Impulsive Maneuvers (AAS 06-166) Hiroaki Fukuzawa.
-Analysis of the Guidance Error Incurred by Various Autonomous Satellite
Rendezvous Maneuvers (AAS 06-167) Denise L. Brown, T. Alan Lovell and Mark V. Tollefson.
-On the Design of a Science Orbit About Europa (AAS 06-168) Martin Lara and Ryan Russell.
-Periodic Orbits in the Full Two-Body Problem (AAS 06-169) Julie Bellerose and Daniel J. Scheeres.
-Practical Challenges in Implementing Atmospheric Density Corrections to the NRLMSISE-00 Model (AAS 06-170) Matthew P. Wilkins, Chris A. Sabol, Paul J. Cefola and Kyle T. Alfriend.
-Unmanned Orbiter Undocking: Method for Disposal of a Damaged Space Shuttle Orbiter (AAS 06-171) Ray A. Bigonesse and William R. Summa.