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Spacecraft Transfer Optimization with Releasing the Additional Fuel Tank and the Booster to the Earth Atmosphere
AbstractThis paper considers the idea of reducing the debris of near-Earth space by releasing the spent parts of a spacecraft on orbits touching the...
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A Population Dynamics Approach to the Distribution of Space Debris in Low Earth Orbit
The presence of the debris in the Earth’s orbit poses a significant risk to human activity in outer space. This debris population continues to grow...
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Study of collision probability considering a non-uniform cloud of space debris
The present paper aims to study the cumulative collision probability of a target that crosses a cloud of particles that has the orbital parameters of...
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Software System for Modeling Nanosatellites Motion Control Algorithms Using a Planar Air-Bearing Testbed
AbstractThis article describes a software system for algorithms modeling nanosatellite motion control on a laboratory facility with an aerodynamic...
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Differential Pursuit-Evasion Games and Space Economy: New Research Perspectives
In this article, we consider a research topic in the field of game theory: the pursuit-evasion differential games. With the evolution of the world...
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Old perturbative methods for a new problem in Celestial Mechanics: the space debris dynamics
Perturbative methods have been developed and widely used in the XVIII and XIX century to study the behavior of N -body problems in Celestial...
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Stochastic satellite tracking with constrained budget via structured-chromosome genetic algorithms
This paper focuses on the scheduling under uncertainty of satellite tracking from a heterogeneous network of ground stations taking into account...
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Attitude and Orbit Optimal Control of Combined Spacecraft via a Fully-Actuated System Approach
This paper investigates the attitude and orbit control for the combined spacecraft formed after a target spacecraft without the autonomous control...
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Data collection in the Saarland test areas
This chapter deals with the collection of the data that were gravimetrically and/or magnetometrically required for the application of the multiscale...
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Volume Applications
This chapter specially considers the German Saarland area for methodological tests, and new important fields of application are opened, in particular...
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Sequential Wald Test Employing a Constrained Filter Bank: Application to Spacecraft Conjunctions
A binary Wald sequential probability ratio test that uses the residuals of two norm-inequality-constrained Kalman filters for its likelihood ratio is...
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Space Debris: From LEO to GEO
The paper focuses on the dynamics of space debris in the Earth environment, with a celestial mechanics and theoretical point of view, and not with an...
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Probabilistic Safety Analysis of the Collision Between a Space Debris and a Satellite with an Island Particle Algorithm
Collision between satellites and space debris seldom happens, but the loss of a satellite by collision may have catastrophic consequences both for...
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Exploring the Solar System
Chapter 2 provides an overview of the information that today’s spacecraft have returned from the near and far corners of the solar system. The...
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The Magic Ring in Action: Individuals
Part 1 presented the theory of control systems. A control system can be thought of as a Ring that rotates several times to guide the variables [Y],...
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From Kepler to Newton to a Picture of the Universe
Chapter 1 is a historical essay that provides the context and sets the stage for all that follows. It recalls humanity’s efforts to understand the...
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Practical Uncertainty Quantification in Orbital Mechanics
The chapter provides an overview of methods to quantify uncertainty in orbital mechanics. It also provides an initial classification of these methods...
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Orbital effects in a cloud of space debris making a close approach with the earth
The present paper has the goal of studying the changes of the orbital parameters of each individual element of a cloud of particles that makes a...
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Rigorous Global Optimization for Collision Risk Assessment on Perturbed Orbits
In this chapter, a method to assess the occurrence of impacts between objects (either spacecraft or space debris) orbiting around the Earth is...
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Space Engineering Modeling and Optimization with Case Studies
This book presents a selection of advanced case studies that cover a substantial range of issues and real-world challenges and applications in space...