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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 II
-SESSION 9:
-SPACECRAFT GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION AND CONTROL - I
-Autonomous Lunar Orbit Navigation Using Optical Sensors (AAS 07-312). Sun Hur-Diaz, Bill Bamford and Dave Gaylor.
-Guidance and Navigation Linear Covariance Analysis for Lunar Powered
Descent (AAS 07-313). Travis J. Moesser and David K. Geller.
-Precision Descent Navigation for Landing at the Moon (AAS 07-314). Kyle J. DeMars and Rob ert H. Bishop.
-Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Primary Science Orbit Acquisition (AAS 07-315). Ramachandra S. Bhat, C. Allen Halsell, Tung-Han You, Stacia M. Long, Dolan E. Highsmith, Stuart W. Demcak, Eric J. Graat, Neil A. Mottinger and Earl S. Higa.
-State Estimation and Targeting for Autonomous Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (AAS 07-316). Scott C. Jenkins and David K. Geller.
-Optimal Formation Deployment Using Relative Constraints (AAS 07-318). Michael Volle.
-Reconstruction of the Voyager Uranus Encounter in the ICRF System
(AAS 07-319). Robert A. Jacobson and Brian P. Rush.
-SESSION 10:
-TRAJECTORY DESIGN AND PLANETARY MISSION STUDIES - II
-Analysis of Capture Trajectories to the Periodic Orbits in the Vicinity of
Libration Points (AAS 07-320). Masaki Nakamiya, Daniel J. Scheeres, Hiroshi Yamakawa and Makoto Yoshikawa.
-Numerical Parametrizations of Libration Point Trajectories and Their
Invariant Manifolds (AAS 07-321). Josep M. Mondelo, Esther Barrabés, Gerard Gómez and Mercè Ollé.
-Interplanetary Waveriders for Atmospheric Sample Return (AAS 07-324).
Daniel T. Lyons and Evgeniy Sklyanskiy.
-Optimization of Aerogravity-Assist Trajectories for Waveriders (AAS 07-325). Gregory A. Henning and James M. Longuski.
-Preliminary Speculation on Accretion Mechanism Associated with ‘Rubble Pile’ Celestial Objects (AAS 07-326). Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi, Akifumi Kitajima, Yuichi Miwa and Masatoshi Hiyabayashi.
-Applica tion of the Weierstrass Condition in Rocket Trajectory Optimization, (AAS 07-413). Da vid G. Hull.
-SESSION 11:
-SPECIAL SESSION - 50 YEARS OF SPACE DEVELOPMENT
-A Brief History of NRL’s Early Firsts in Space flight (AAS 07-327). Patrick W. Binning and Jay W. Middour.
-50 Years of Satellite Tracking and Cataloging in the US (AAS 07-328). Felix R. Hoots, Paul W. Schumacher and Taft DeVere.
-Apollo 13 Trajectory Reconstruction via State Transition Matrices, (AAS 07-330) Daniel R. Adamo.
-A History of Tethers in Space: Innovative Concepts, Technical Developments, and Missions (AAS 07-331). Paul A. Penzo and Arun K. Misra.
-Historical Development of the Transit Satellite Navigation Program (AAS 07-334). Thomas Thompson.
-SESSION 12:
-ATTITUDE DYNAMICS, DETERMINATION AND CONTROL - II
-Rotational Dynamics of a Comet Nucleus Subject to Outgassing Jets,
(AAS 07-335). Sharyl M. Byram and Daniel J. Scheeres.
-Spin Axis Estimation with RF Hardware - A Solar Sentinels Case Study,
(AAS 07-336). Wayne F. Dellinger and Dipak K. Srinivasan.
-Implementation of a Multiplicative Extended Kalman Filter (MEKF) for Spinning Spacecraft Attitude Determination in the Astrodynamics Environment (ADE) (AAS 07-337). Kenneth J. Ernandes, Benjamin E. Joseph and Paul J. Cefola.
-Zero Gyro Kalman Filtering in the Presence of a Reaction Wheel Failure,
(AAS 07-338). Sun Hur-Diaz, John Wirzburger, Dan Smith and Mike Myslinski
-Internal Disturbance Accommodation Filter of Control Moment Gyros with
Adaptive Observer (AAS 07-339). Masaki Takahashi, Seiichi Shimizu, Shigemune Taniwaki, Kazuo Yoshida and Yoshiaki Ohkami.
-Enhancements of Repetitive Control Using Specialized FIR Zero-Phase
Filter Designs (AAS 07-340). Jiangcheng Bao and Richard W. Longman.
-The Advantages and Disadvantages of Kalman Filtering in Repetitive Control (AAS 07-341). Benjamas Panomruttanarug and Richard W. Longman.
-SESSION 13: LOW THRUST MISSION AND TRAJECTORY DESIGN
-Low-Thrust Transfers in the Earth-Moon System Including Applications to
Libration Point Orbits (AAS 07-343). K. C. Howell and M. T. Ozimek.
-Reduction of Low Thrust Continuous Controls for Trajectory Dynamics,
(AAS 07-345). Jennifer S. Hudson and Daniel J. Scheeres.
-Station Keeping Close to Unstable Equilibrium Points with a Solar Sail,
(AAS 07-347). Ariadna Farrés and Àngel Jorba.
-Design Space Pruning Techniques for Low-Thrust, Multiple Asteroid
Rendezvous Trajectory Design (AAS 07-348). Kristina Alemany and Robert D. Braun.
-PHOIBOS Mission Analysis - A Low Thrust Trajectory Towards the Sun
Corona (AAS 07-349). Régis Bertrand, Jean-Yves Prado and Emmanuel Hinglais.
-SESSION 14:
-AT TI TUDE DY NAM ICS, DE TER MI NA TION AND CON TROL - III
-Corresponding Point Detection by Harris Corner Detector and RANSAC, and Attitude Variation Estima tion by the Eight-Point Algorithm (AAS 07-350). Hirohisa Kojima, Keitarou Kimoto and Yutaka Usuda.
-Addressing Problems of Instability in Intersample Error in Iterative Learning Con trol (AAS 07-352). Yao Li and Rich ard W. Longman.
-Design of Repetitive Controllers in the Frequency Domain for Multi-Input
Multi-Output Sys tems (AAS 07-353). Richard W. Longman, Kevin Xu and Minh Q. Phan.
-On Closed-Loop Spacecraft Attitude Maneuvers (AAS 07-354). Pooya Sekhavat and I. Mi chael Ross.
-Minimum-Time Maneuvering of CMG-Driven Spacecraft (AAS 07-355). Andrew Fleming and I. Michael Ross.
-Receding Horizon Control on Steering of Control Moment Gyro for Fast
Attitude Maneuver (AAS 07-356). Kohei Takada and Hirohisa Kojima.
-Relative Equilibria of a Tetrahedral Structure with Rigid and Tethered Elements (AAS 07-357). Alexander A. Burov, Anna D. Guerman and Revaz S. Sulikashvili.
-SESSION 15: ORBIT DETERMINATION AND TRACKING - II
-A Preliminary Analysis of State Vector Prediction Accuracy (AAS 07-358). Da vid A. Vallado.
-Artificial Damping for Stable Long-Term Orbital Covariance Propagation
(AAS 07-359). J. Russell Carpenter and Kevin Berry.
-Radiometric Tracking Benefits of Using a Coherent Transceiver System With Flexible Turnaround Ratios (AAS 07-360). Karl B. Fielhauer, Gene A. Heyler, Christopher B. Haskins, Dipak K. Srinivasan and Christopher J. Krupiarz.
-Singular Value Decomposition and Least Squares Orbit Determination
(AAS 07-362). Vladimir F. Boikov, Zakhary N. Khutorovsky and Kyle T. Alfriend.
-Optimal Measurement Filtering and Motion Prediction Taking into Account the Atmospheric Perturbations (AAS 07-363). Andrey I. Nazarenko, Vasiliy S. Yurasov, Kyle T. Alfriend and Paul J. Cefola.
-Precise Orbit Determination of Satellite Using a Batch Filter Based on the
Unscented Transformation (AAS 07-364). Eun-Seo Park, Sang-Young Park, Kyoung-Min Roh and Kyu-Hong Choi.
-GOCE Precise Emulator for ESOC Flight Dynamics Operations Preparation, (AAS 07-365). Livio Tucci, Stefano M. Pessina, Susanne Kasten-Coors and Michael L. Flegel.
-SESSION 16:
-DYNAMICS AND CONTROL OF LARGE SPACE STRUCTURES
-Electrodynamic Tether Shape Estimation with Square-Root Unscented Filter (AAS 07-367). Paul Williams.
-Libration Control of Electrodynamic Tethers Using Model Predictive Control With Time-Delayed Feed back (AAS 07-368). Paul Williams.
-On the Control of a Permanent Tethered Observatory at Jupiter (AAS 07-369). J. Peláez and D. J. Scheeres.
-Quick Deployment of Bare Tape Tether and Overview of the Sounding
Rocket Experiment (AAS 07-370). Takeo Watanabe, Hironori A. Fujii and Hirohisa Kojima.
-On-Orbit Jitter Measurement and sis of Precision Pointing Spacecraft
and their Instruments (AAS 07-371). John Sudey, Jr., Nick Stamatakos, Paul Kirchman, Scott Miller and Ken Yienger.
-Robustified Repetitive Controllers with Monotonic Convergence for
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Systems (AAS 07-372). Hunter M. Brown, Minh Q. Phan, Soo Cheol Lee and Rich ard W. Longman.