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Simone Fiori, Francesco Rachiglia, Luca Sabatini and Edoardo Sampaolesi
The aim of this research paper is to propose a framework to model, simulate and control the motion of a small spacecraft in the proximity of a space station. In particular, rendezvous in the presence of physical obstacles is tackled by a virtual potentia...
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Van Minh Nguyen, Emma Sandidge, Trupti Mahendrakar and Ryan T. White
The accelerating deployment of spacecraft in orbit has generated interest in on-orbit servicing (OOS), inspection of spacecraft, and active debris removal (ADR). Such missions require precise rendezvous and proximity operations in the vicinity of non-coo...
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Soobin Jeon, Sang-Young Park and Geuk-Nam Kim
CANYVAL-C is a formation-flying mission that demonstrates a coronagraph utilizing two CubeSats. The coronagraph is a space telescope that blocks sunlight to examine the overcast regions around the sun. It is composed of optical and occult segments. Two s...
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Marco Sabatini and Giovanni B. Palmerini
This paper investigates the performance of the forthcoming lunar navigation satellite systems for estimating not only the position of an onboard receiver in a lunar inertial reference frame but also, and with a consistent accuracy, the relative position ...
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David Zuehlke, Madhur Tiwari, Khalid Jebari and Krishna Bhavithavya Kidambi
As interest in Moon exploration grows, and efforts to establish an orbiting outpost intensify, accurate modeling of spacecraft dynamics in cislunar space is becoming increasingly important. Contrary to satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), where it takes ...
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Ahmed Mahfouz, Gabriella Gaias, D. M. K. K. Venkateswara Rao and Holger Voos
In this paper, the problem of autonomous optimal absolute orbit keeping for a satellite mission in Low Earth Orbit using electric propulsion is considered. The main peculiarity of the approach is to support small satellite missions in which the platform ...
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Yingxiao Li, Ping Ma and Ju Huo
In the final approach stage of rendezvous and docking of a spacecraft, the pose parameters of the target spacecraft need to meet docking or berthing capture conditions. Visible light visual measurement systems are increasingly employed in spacecraft grou...
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Davide Costigliola and Lorenzo Casalino
The development of autonomous guidance control and navigation systems for spacecraft would greatly benefit applications such as debris removals or on-orbit servicing, where human intervention is not practical. Within this context, inspired by Autonomous ...
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Pureum Kim and Sang-Young Park
This study investigates the preliminary trajectory design for high-thrust missions to near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), considering distance and phase angle constraints during the approaching phase to enable pre-rendezvous optical navigation and the scientifi...
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Ahmed Mehamed Oumer and Dae-Kwan Kim
Autonomous rendezvous and docking (RVD) fuel optimization with field-of-view and obstacle avoidance constraints is a nonlinear and nonconvex optimization problem, making it computationally intensive for onboard computation on CubeSats. This paper propose...
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