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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume in three parts presents the proceedings of the 2007 Astrodynamics Specialist Conference held in Mackinac Island, Michigan, August 19-23, 2007. It includes a CD-ROM.

(Extracted from the Foreword).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-CONTENTS.
-PREFACE.
-FOREWORD.
-Part I
-SESSION 1: SPECIAL SESSION - CASSINI
-Optical Navigation for the Cassini/Huygens Mission (AAS 07-252). S. D. Gillam, W. M. Owen Jr., A. T. Vaughan, T.-C. M. Wang, J. D. Costello,
R. A. Jacobson, D. Bluhm, J. L. Pojman and R. Ionasescu.
-Cassini Orbit Determination Performance During Saturn Satellite Tour:
August 2005 – January 2006 (AAS 07-253). P. G. Antreasian, J. J. Bordi, K. E. Criddle, R. Ionasescu, R. A. Jacobson, J. B. Jones, R. A. MacKenzie, D. W. Parcher, F. J. Pelletier, D. C. Roth and J. R. Stauch.
-Cassini-Huygens Maneuver Experience: Third Year of Saturn Tour (AAS 07-254). Powtawche N. Williams, Emily M. Gist, Troy D. Goodson, Yungsun Hahn, Paul W. Stumpf and Sean V. Wagner.
-Re-Aiming Cassini’s Iapetus Flyby (AAS 07-255). Frederic Pelletier, Brent B. Buffington, Nathan Strange and Tilmann Denk.
-500-Year Eccentric Orbits for the Cassini Spacecraft within the Saturn System (AAS 07-256). Chris Patterson, Masaki Kakoi, Kathleen C. Howell, Chit Hong Yam and James M. Longuski.
-Saturn Impact Trajectories for Cassini End-of-Life (AAS 07-257). Chit Hong Yam, Diane Craig Davis, James M. Longuski and Kathleen C. Howell.
-Cassini End-of-Life Escape Trajectories to the Outer Planets (AAS 07-258). Masataka Okutsu, Chit Hong Yam, James M. Longuski and Nathan J. Strange.
-SESSION 2: ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY ANALYSIS
-Determination of Drag Coefficient Values for CHAMP and GRACE Satellites Using Orbit Drag Analysis (AAS 07-259). Bruce R. Bowman, Frank A. Marcos, Kenneth Moe and Mildred M. Moe.
-Neutral Density Determined from CHAMP Precision Orbits (AAS 07-260). Craig A. McLaughlin and Ben S. Bieber.
-Standardized Approaches for Estimating Orbit Lifetime after End-of-Life
(AAS 07-261). Daniel L. Oltrogge and Chia-Chun Chao.
-Drag Coefficient Variability at 100-300 km from the Orbit Decay Analyses
of Rocket Bodies (AAS 07-262). Bruce R. Bowman and Stan Hrncir.
-Orbit Decay Prediction Sensitivity to Solar Flux Variations (AAS 07-264). Bo J. Naasz, Kevin Berry and Kenneth Schatten.
-Preliminary Results from the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment Risk Reduction Mission (AAS 07-265). A. C. Nicholas, J. M. Picone, J. Emmert, J. DeYoung, L. Healy, L. Wasiczko, M. Da vis and C. Cox.
-SESSION 3:
-SATELLITE CON STELLATIONS AND FORMATION FLYING - I

-1-D Constrained Coulomb Structure Stabilization With Charge Saturation,
(AAS 07-267). Shuquan Wang and Hanspeter Schaub.
-Analytic Solutions for Equal Mass 4-Craft Static Coulomb Formation
(AAS 07-268). Harsch Vasavada and Hanspeter Schaub.
-Stability and Control of Relative Equilibria for the Three-Spacecraft Coulomb Tether Problem (AAS 07-269). Islam I. Hussein and Hanspeter Schaub.
-Modeling and Properties of a Flux-Pinned Network of Satellites (AAS 07-270). Michael Norman and Mason A. Peck .
-A General Methodology for Minimum-Fuel Hovering Satel lite Formations,
(AAS 07-271). David J. Irvin Jr., Richard G. Cobb and T. Alan Lovell.
-Neighbouring Optimum Feedback Control Law for Earth-Orbiting Formation Flying Spacecraft (AAS 07-273). Jean-Francois Hamel and Jean de Lafontaine.
-Time-Varying Expression of the Formation Flying Along Circular Trajectories (AAS 07-274). Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi and Ryu Funase.
-SESSION 4:
-TRAJEC TORY DESIGN AND PLANETARY MISSION STUDIES - I
-Solar Gravity Perturbations to Facilitate Long-Term Orbits: Application to
Cassini (AAS 07-275). Diane Craig Davis, Chris Patterson and Kathleen Howell.
-Patched-Integrated Gravity-Assist Trajectory Design (AAS 07-276). Brent Buffington and Nathan Strange.
-Mapping the V-Infinity Globe (AAS 07-277). Nathan Strange, Ryan Russell and Brent Buffington.
-Optimal Trajectories for Soft Landing on Asteroids (AAS 07-280). Gregory Lantoine and Robert D. Braun.
-Comparison Between Patched Conic and Perturbed Orbit for Mars Mission, (AAS 07-281). B. P. Dakshayani and N. S. Gopinath.
-SESSION 5: ORBIT DETERMINATION AND TRACKING - I
-A Non-Iterative Solution for Kepler’s Equation (AAS 07-282). James D. Turner.
-Assessment of the Solar Radiation Model for GRACE Orbit Determination, (AAS 07-283). Minkang Cheng, John C. Ries and Byron D. Tapley.
-CARTOSAT-1 Orbit Determination System and Achieved Accuracy During Early Phase (AAS 07-284). Naryanasetti Venkata Vighnesam, Anatta Sonney, Pramod Kumar Soni and B. P. Dakshayani.
-GEO Maneuver Detection for Space Situational Awareness (AAS 07-285). Zachary J. Folcik, Paul J. Cefola and Richard I. Abbot.
-Global Positioning System Upper Stage Disposal and Collision Risk Analysis: Part 2 (AAS 07-286). Alan B. Jenkin and John P. McVey.
-Radar-Optical Observation Mix (AAS 07-287). Fe lix R. Hoots.
-Special Perturbations Uncorrelated Track Processing (AAS 07-288). James G. Miller.
-SESSION 6:
-ATTI TUDE DYNAMICS, DETERMINATION AND CONTROL - I
-Attitude Dynamics and Control of a Compound Solar Sail (AAS 07-290). Anna D. Guerman, Gueorgiy Smirnov and M. C. Pereira.
-Autonomous Line-of-Sight Estimation Architectural Design for Next
Generation GEO IR Payload (AAS 07-293). Peter C. Lai and Edward Fiorelli.
-Parameters Estimation of a Satellite Attitude Control Simulator (AAS 07-294). Luiz Carlos Gadelha DeSouza.
-Survey of Calibration Algorithms for Spacecraft Attitude Sensors and Gyros (AAS 07-295). Mark E. Pittelkau.
-SESSION 7:
-SATELLITE CON STELLATIONS AND FORMATION FLYING - II
-A Methodology Unifying Bang-Bang Controls and Low-Thrust Trajectories
for the Reconfiguration of Spacecraft Formations (AAS 07-296). Laura Garcia-Taberner and Josep J. Masdemont.
-Perturbations of Gravity Field on a Flight Formation for an Eccentric
Reference Frame (AAS 07-297). Jordi Fontdecaba Baig, Gilles Métris, F. Deleflie and Pierre Exertier.
-Development and Control Scheme Solution for the Perturbed Motion of a
Constellation in an Elliptical Orbit (AAS 07-298). Pedro A. Capó-Lugo and Peter M. Bainum.
-Fuel-Equivalent Relative Orbit Element Space (AAS 07-300). Jean-Francois Hamel and Jean de Lafontaine.
-Linearized Dynamics of Formation Flying Spacecraft on a J2-Perturbed
Elliptical Orbit (AAS 07-301). Jean-Francois Hamel and Jean de Lafontaine.
-Optimal Interferometric Image Acquisition via Multi-Spacecraft Formation
Maneuvering – Special Cases of Optimality (AAS 07-302). Haithem A. Al-Twaijry and David C. Hyland.
-Efficient, Passively Orbiting Constel la tions for High Resolution Imaging of Geosynchronous Objects (AAS 07-303). Da vid C. Hyland.
-SESSION 8: ATMOSPHERIC RE-ENTRY GUIDANCE AND CONTROL
-3 -D Trajectory Optimization Satisfy ing Waypoints and No-Fly Zone
Constraints (AAS 07-304). Timothy R. Jorris and Richard G. Cobb.

-Six-Degree-of-Freedom Trajectory Optimization for Reusable Launch
Vehicle Footprint Determination (AAS 07-305). Kevin P. Bollino, I. Michael Ross and David B. Doman.
-Optimal Trajectories for Maneuvering Re -entry Vehicles (AAS 07-306). Aditya Undurti, Ronald J. Proulx, James A. Shearer and Roy H. Setturlund.
-Trajectory and Aerothermodynamic Analysis of Towed-Ballute Aerocapture Using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (AAS 07-307). Kristin L. Gates Medlock, Alina A. Alexeenko and James M. Longuski.
-Analytical Atmospheric Guidance for Aerocapture (AAS 07-308). Jordi Casoliva and Kenneth D. Mease.
-Entry Trajectory Planning for Higher Elevation Landing (AAS 07-309). J. Benito and K. D. Mease.
-Mars Pinpoint Landing Systems Trades (AAS 07-310). Aron Wolf, Evgeniy Sklyanskiy, Jeffrey Tooley and Brian Rush
-Precision Entry Navigation Dead-Reckoning Error Analysis: Theoretical
Foundations of the Discrete-Time Case (AAS 07-311). Renato Zanetti and Robert H. Bishop.