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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 II.
-DEEP IMPACT SPECIAL SESSION
-An Overview of Deep Impact Navigation with Lessons Learned (AAS 06-173) Raymond B. Frauenholz.
-Ground-Based Orbit Determination for Deep Impact (AAS 06-174) Mark Ryne, David Jefferson, Diane Craig, Earl Higa, George Lewis and Prem Menon.
-Deep Impact Ground Navigation Maneuver Design and Performance (AAS 06-175) Ramachandra S. Bhat, Paul W. Stumpf and Raymond B. Frauenholz.
-Optical Navigation for Deep Impact (AAS 06-176) William M. Owen, Jr., Nickolaos Mastrodemos, Brian P. Rush, Tseng-Chang M. Wang, Stephen D. Gillam and Shyam Bhaskaran.
-Autonomous Navigation for Deep Impact (AAS 06-177) Nickolaos Mastrodemos, Daniel G. Kubitschek, Robert A. Werner, Brian M. Kennedy, Stephen P. Synnott, George W. Null, Joseph E. Riedel, Shyam Bhaskaran, and Andrew T. Vaughan.
-Comet 9P/Tempel 1 Ephemeris Development for the Deep Impact Mission (AAS 06-178) Steven R. Chesley and Donald K. Yeomans.
-MISSION ANALYSIS II
-Multi-Body Orbit Architectures for Lunar South Pole Coverage (AAS 06-179) D. J. Grebow, M. T. Ozimek, K. C. Howell and D. C. Folta.
-Computing Low-Thrust Orbit-Raising and Lunar Transfers (AAS 06-180)
Craig A. Kluever and J. Monheiser.
-Study of Subcycles for Repeat Orbits and Application to the ICESat, ENVISAT and CryoSat Missions (AAS 06-181) Nadège Pie and Bob E. Schutz.
-MOI to TEI: A Mars Sample Return Strategy (AAS 06-182) Chad W. Smith and Robert W. Maddock.
-Guidance and Navigation Operation for Rehearsals and Touch-Downs
in Hayabusa (AAS 06-183) Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi, Shinji Hagino and Takeshi Ohshima.
-Optimal Eccentricity Vector for Geosynchronous Satellite Disposal (AAS 06-184) Glenn E. Peterson.
-JIMO SPECIAL SESSION
-Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Mission Design Overview (AAS 06-185) Jon A. Sims.
-The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Reference Trajectory (AAS 06-186) Gregory J. Whiffen and Try Lam.
-Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Interplanetary Injection Period Analysis (AAS 06-187) Theresa D. Kowalkowski, Julie A. Kangas and Daniel W. Parcher.
-Characteristics of Transfers to and Captures at Europa (AAS 06-188) Try Lam, Anil N. Hirani and Julie A. Kangas.
-Designing Capture Trajectories to Unstable Periodic Orbits Around Europa (AAS 06-189) Ryan P. Russell and Try Lam.
-The Role of Invariant Manifolds in Low Thrust Trajectory Design (Part III)
(AAS 06-190) Martin W. Lo, Rodney L. Anderson, Try Lam and Gregory J. Whiffen.
-A Toolbox For Designing Long Lifetime Orbits About Planetary Satellites:
Application to JIMO at Europa (AAS 06-191) Marci E. Paskowitz and Daniel J. Scheeres.
-Orbit Determination Studies for a Low-Altitude Europa Orbiter (AAS 06-192) Paul F. Thompson, Sumita Nandi and Mau C. Wong.
-OPTIMIZATION II
-A Suborbital Spaceship for Short Space Duration and Micro Satellite Launch (AAS 06-193) Yunjun Xu, Jangho Yoon and Pat Bahn.
-Autonomous Rendezvous Guidance and Navigation for Orbital Express and Beyond (AAS 06-194) Joseph W. Evans, Elfego Piñon III and Tom A. Mulder.
-Development of a Simple Analytic Model for Optimum Specific Impulse
Interplanetary Low Thrust Trajectories (AAS 06-195) David Y. Oh.
-Multi-Objective Parallel Genetic Algorithms Applied to the Primer Vector
Control Law (AAS 06-196) Seungwon Lee and Ryan P. Russell.
-Optimal Space Trajectory Design: A Heuristic-Based Approach (AAS 06-197) Christopher R. Bessette and David B. Spencer.
-Optimizing Trajectories for Suborbital Human Spaceflight (AAS 06-199) Ryan L. Kobrick and David B. Spencer.
-The Computation of Optimal Rendezvous Trajectories Using the Sequential Gradient Restoration Algorithm (AAS 06-200) Michael W. Weeks and Angelo Miele.
-FORMATION FLYING III
-Dual-Compatible Flower Constellations (AAS 06-202) Daniele Mortari and Matthew Paul Wilkins.
-Uni-Flower: A Novel Proposal for University-Built Nanosatellites in Flower
Constellation (AAS 06-204) Troy Henderson and Daniele Mortari.
-Online Relative Range Determination and Clock Synchronization Algorithm for Formation Flying Spacecraft (AAS 06-205) Yuichi Tsuda, Yoshifumi Saito and Tomoaki Toda.
-Periodic Relative Motion of Formation Flying Satellites (AAS 06-206) Marco Sabatini, Riccardo Bevilacqua, Mauro Pantaleoni and Dario Izzo.
-HAYABUSA AND NEO MISSIONS SPECIAL SESSION
-Ion Engines Cruise of Hayabusa to Itokawa - Trajectory Synthesis and Results (AAS 06-209) Masatoshi Matsuoka, Takashi Kominato and Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi.
-Optical Hybrid Navigation in Hayabusa - Approach, Station Keeping and
Hovering (AAS 06-210) Takashi Kominato, Masatoshi Matsuoka, Masashi Uo, Tatsuaki Hashimoto and Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi.
-Mission Analysis of Near Earth Asteroid Exploration by Miniature Asteroid
Interceptors (AAS 06-212) Yasuhiro Kawakatsu, Osamu Mori, Yuichi Tsuda, Kota Tarao and Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi.
-A Survey of Rendezvous and Impact Ballistic Trajectories to NEOs (AAS 06-213) Carlos Corral van Damme, Raúl Cadenas and Mariella Graziano.
-Hayabusa’s Touching-Down to Itokawa - Autonomous Guidance and Navigation (AAS 06-214) Masashi Uo, Ken’ichi Shirakawa, Tatsuaki Hashimoto, Takashi Kubota and Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi.
-Accurate Landmark Tracking for Navigating Hayabusa Prior to Final Descent (AAS 06-215) Ken’ichi Shirakawa, Hideo Morita, Masashi Uo, Tatsuaki Hashimoto, Takashi Kubota and Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi.
-Use of Laser and Optical Sensors in Terrain Alignment and Touchdowns
(AAS 06-216) Takashi Kubota, Tatsuaki Hashimoto, Masashi Uo, Katsuhiko Tsuno and Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi.
-NAVIGATION
-Outgassing Acceleration of a Spacecraft (AAS 06-217) James K. Miller and Connie J. Weeks.
-Planet and Time Estimation Using Star Trackers (AAS 06-218) Daniele Mortari.
-Cassini-Huygens Maneuver Automation for Navigation (AAS 06-219) Troy D. Goodson, Amy Attiyah, Brent Buffington, Yungsun Hahn, Joan Pojman, Bob Stavert, Nathan Strange, Paul Stumpf, Sean Wagner, Peter Wolff and Mau Wong.
-Launch Navigation Support for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (AAS 06-220) Neil A. Mottinger, Tung-Han You, C. A. Halsell, Stacia Long, Stuart Demcak, Eric Graat, Earl Higa, Dolan Highsmith, Moriba Jah and Ramachandra Bhat.
-Liaison Navigation in the Sun-Earth-Moon Four-Body Problem (AAS 06-221) Keric Hill, Martin W. Lo and George H. Born.
-The JPL Roadmap for Deep Space Navigation (AAS 06-223) Tomas J. Martin-Mur, Douglas S. Abraham, David Berry, Shyam Bhaskaran, Robert J. Cesarone and Lincoln J. Wood.
-SOLAR SAILS AND TETHERS
-Structural Dynamics of a Spin-Stabilized, Mast-Free Solar Sail Design
(AAS 06-224) Thierry Botter, Victoria L. Coverstone and Rodney L. Burton.
-Solar Sail Navigation: Estimation of Force, Moments, and Optical Parameters (AAS 06-225) Leonel Rios-Reyes and Daniel J. Scheeres.
-Sensitivity Studies of the Deployment of a Square Inflatable Solar Sail With Vanes (AAS 06-226) Marco B. Quadrelli and John West.
-Effects of the Space Elevator Dynamics on the Orbit of a Launched Satellite (AAS 06-227) Stephen S. Cohen and Arun K. Misra.
-Invariant Shape Solutions of Spinning Three Craft Coulomb Tether Problem (AAS 06-228) Islam I. Hussein and Hanspeter Schaub.
-Reconfiguration of a 2-Craft Coulomb Tether (AAS 06-229) Arun Natarajan, Hanspeter Schaub and Gordon G. Parker.
-SURVEILLANCE AND SPACE DEBRIS
-Constellations Using Entry Pupil Processing for High Resolution Imaging of Geosynchronous Objects (AAS 06-230) David C. Hyland.
-Space Surveillance Using Star Trackers. Part I: Simulations (AAS 06-231)
Iohan Ettouati, Daniele Mortari and Thomas Pollock.
-Space Surveillance Using Star Trackers: Orbit Estimation (AAS 06-232)
Ossama Abdelkhalik, Daniele Mortari and John L. Junkins.
-Covariance as a Metric for Catalog Maintenance Error (AAS 06-233) A. M. Segerman and K. A. Akins.
-Progress in International Space and Astrodynamics Standards (AAS 06-234) David Finkleman and Daniel Oltrogge.
-Space Vehicle Conflict Avoidance Analysis (AAS 06-235) Russell P. Patera.
-The Efficient Analytic Computation of Fractional Reentering Debris from an Idealized Isotropic Explosion in General Elliptic Orbit (AAS 06-236) Jean A. Kéchichian and Marlon E. Sorge.
-Improvements in Modeling Thermospheric Densities Using New EUV and
FUV Solar Indices (AAS 06-237) Bruce R. Bowman and W. Kent Tobiska.
-AAS DIRK BROUWER AWARD LECTURE
-Humble Problems (AAS 06-238) F. Landis Markley.