Articles

1. Integrated attitude—orbit control of solar sail with single-axis gimbal mechanism

   • Toshihiro Chujo
   • Kei Watanabe
   • Yuki Takao

   Research Article Open access 24 May 2024

   

2. Optimal orbit transfer of single-tether E-sail with inertially fixed spin axis

   • Alessandro A. Quarta
   • Marco Bassetto
   • Giovanni Mengali

   Research Article Open access 13 May 2024

   

3. Dynamic analysis of tethered defunct satellites with solar panels

   • Rui Qi
   • Yang Zhang
   • Rui Zhong

   Research Article 13 May 2024

   

4. State-dependent trust region for successive convex programming for autonomous spacecraft

   • Nicolò Bernardini
   • Nicola Baresi
   • Roberto Armellin

   Research Article Open access 26 April 2024

   

5. Applications of knot theory to the detection of heteroclinic connections between quasi-periodic orbits

   • Danny Owen
   • Nicola Baresi

   Research Article Open access 15 April 2024

   

6. Precise orbit determination for low Earth orbit satellites using GNSS: Observations, models, and methods

   • Xinyuan Mao
   • Wenbing Wang
   • Yang Gao

   Review Article 11 April 2024

   

7. On-ground validation of orbital GNC: Visual navigation assessment in robotic testbed facility

   • Vivek Muralidharan
   • Mohatashem Reyaz Makhdoomi
   • Carol Martinez

   Research Article Open access 20 March 2024

   

8. The OPS-SAT case: A data-centric competition for onboard satellite image classification

   • Gabriele Meoni
   • Marcus Märtens
   • Dario Izzo

   Research Article Open access 16 March 2024

   

9. Spaceborne and ground-based sensor collaboration: Advancing resident space objects’ orbit determination for space sustainability

   • Niki Sajjad
   • Mehran Mirshams
   • Andreas Makoto Hein

   Review Article 14 March 2024

   

10. Evaluation of E-sail parameters on central spacecraft attitude stability using a high-fidelity rigid–flexible coupling model

    • Chonggang Du
    • Zheng H. Zhu
    • Tuanjie Li

    Research Article 13 March 2024

    

11. A comparative assessment of gravitational field modeling methods for binary asteroid landing

    • Tongge Wen
    • Xiangyuan Zeng
    • Yang Yu

    Research Article 13 March 2024

    

12. Lunar orbits for telecommunication and navigation services

    • Marco Cinelli
    • Emiliano Ortore
    • Christian Circi

    Research Article Open access 08 February 2024 Pages: 209 - 220

    

13. Air traffic monitoring using optimized ADS-B CubeSat constellation

    • Ghulam Jaffer
    • Rameez A. Malik
    • Guy A. E. Vandenbosch

    Research Article 08 February 2024 Pages: 189 - 208

    

14. Universal method for designing periodic orbits by homotopy classes in the elliptic restricted three-body problem

    • Yue Zheng
    • Min Zhao

    Research Article 08 February 2024 Pages: 175 - 188

    

15. Quasi-periodic orbits of small solar sails with time-varying attitude around Earth–Moon libration points

    • Toshihiro Chujo

    Research Article Open access 08 February 2024 Pages: 161 - 174

    

16. Attitude-adjusting dynamical behavior of cubic rover on low-gravity testbed

    • Bowen Jiang
    • Muhammad Talha Hussain
    • Xiangyuan Zeng

    Research Article 08 February 2024 Pages: 149 - 159

    

17. Characterization of Gauss–Markov stochastic sequences for mission analysis

    • Carmine Giordano

    Research Article Open access 08 February 2024 Pages: 135 - 148

    

18. How are multiple satellites seen from the ground? Relative apparent motion and formation stabilization

    • Kenta Nakajima
    • Yasuhiro Yoshimura
    • Toshiya Hanada

    Research Article 08 February 2024 Pages: 121 - 134

    

19. Regularizing fuel-optimal multi-impulse trajectories

    • Kenta Oshima

    Research Article 08 February 2024 Pages: 97 - 119

    

20. Parametric formation control of multiple nanosatellites for cooperative observation of China Space Station

    • Hao Zhou
    • Bohan Jiao
    • Jianping Yuan

    Research Article 08 February 2024 Pages: 77 - 95

    

21. A high-order target phase approach for the station-keeping of periodic orbits

    • Xiaoyu Fu
    • Nicola Baresi
    • Roberto Armellin

    Research Article Open access 08 February 2024 Pages: 61 - 75

    

22. Optimization of body configuration and joint-driven attitude stabilization for transformable spacecraft under solar radiation pressure

    • Yuki Kubo
    • Toshihiro Chujo

    Research Article 08 February 2024 Pages: 47 - 60

    

23. Direct-to-indirect mapping for optimal low-thrust trajectories

    • David Ottesen
    • Ryan P. Russell

    Research Article 08 February 2024 Pages: 27 - 46

    

24. Review of dynamics and active control of large-scale space membrane antenna

    • Xiang Liu
    • Guoping Cai

    Review Article 08 February 2024 Pages: 1 - 26

    

25. Adaptive neural dynamic-based hybrid control strategy for stable retrieval of tethered satellite systems

    • Zhixiong Ji
    • Gefei Shi

    Research Article 02 February 2024

    

26. Analytical libration control law for electrodynamic tether system with current constraint

    • Shidong Xu
    • Ti Chen
    • Dongping Jin

    Research Article 02 February 2024

    

27. Perturbed initial orbit determination

    • Alberto Fossà
    • Matteo Losacco
    • Roberto Armellin

    Research Article 02 February 2024

    

28. Collision-avoidance strategy for a spinning electrodynamic tether system

    • Linxiao Li
    • Aijun Li
    • Yong Guo

    Research Article 02 February 2024

    

29. Autonomous navigation of an asteroid orbiter enhanced by a beacon satellite in a high-altitude orbit

    • Weidong Yin
    • Yu Shi
    • Yang Gao

    Research Article 01 February 2024

    

30. Prediction and experimental verification of tether net entanglement for space debris capture

    • Kaito Kosuge
    • Hirohisa Kojima

    Research Article 01 February 2024

    

31. Determining origins of satellite breakup events in LEO region

    • Yongjie Liu
    • Yu Jiang
    • Hongchao Wang

    Engineering Note 26 October 2023 Pages: 465 - 476

    

32. Debris falling forecast method for spacecraft disintegrating separation

    • Dun Li
    • Zhi-Hui Li
    • Yu Jiang

    Engineering Note 26 October 2023 Pages: 455 - 463

    

33. Message from the Guest Editors of the Special Issue on Space Traffic Management

    • Yu Jiang
    • Roberto Armellin
    • Zhihui Li

    Editorial 26 October 2023 Pages: 381 - 381

34. Astrometric calibration and source characterisation of the latest generation neuromorphic event-based cameras for space imaging

    • Nicholas Owen Ralph
    • Alexandre Marcireau
    • Gregory Cohen

    Research Article Open access 24 August 2023 Pages: 415 - 443

    

35. Self-induced collision risk of the Starlink constellation based on long-term orbital evolution analysis

    • Wei Zhang
    • Xiuhong Wang
    • Sirui Chen

    Research Article 10 August 2023 Pages: 445 - 453

    

36. Safe-event pruning in spacecraft conjunction management

    • Sébastien Henry
    • Roberto Armellin
    • Thibault Gateau

    Research Article 15 July 2023 Pages: 401 - 413

    

37. Covariance analysis of periodic and quasi-periodic orbits around Phobos with applications to the Martian Moons eXploration mission

    • Edoardo Ciccarelli
    • Nicola Baresi

    Research Article Open access 05 July 2023 Pages: 363 - 379

    

38. Attitude maneuvers avoiding forbidden directions

    • David Ailabouni
    • Andreas Meister
    • Karlheinz Spindler

    Research Article Open access 16 June 2023 Pages: 351 - 362

    

39. Optimal interplanetary trajectories for Sun-facing ideal diffractive sails

    • Alessandro A. Quarta
    • Giovanni Mengali
    • Lorenzo Niccolai

    Research Article Open access 16 June 2023 Pages: 285 - 299

    

40. Orbital radius keeping of floating partial space elevator in cargo transposition

    • Gefei Shi
    • Zheng H. Zhu

    Research Article 16 June 2023 Pages: 259 - 269

    

41. Midcourse correction of Earth-Moon distant retrograde orbit transfer trajectories based on high-order state transition tensors

    • Yongchen Yin
    • Ming Wang
    • Hao Zhang

    Research Article 15 June 2023 Pages: 335 - 349

    

42. Reconstructing the cruise-phase trajectory of deep-space probes in a general relativistic framework: An application to the Cassini gravitational wave experiment

    • Joseph O’Leary
    • Jean-Pierre Barriot

    Research Article Open access 15 April 2023 Pages: 301 - 314

    

43. Capacity of Sun-driven lunar swingby sequences and their application in asteroid retrieval

    • Hongru Chen

    Research Article 11 April 2023 Pages: 315 - 334

    

44. Design and guidance of a multi-active debris removal mission

    • Minduli C. Wijayatunga
    • Roberto Armellin
    • Aleksander A. Lidtke

    Research Article Open access 23 February 2023 Pages: 383 - 399

    

45. Analytical configuration uncertainty propagation of geocentric interferometric detection constellation

    • Dong Qiao
    • Xingyu Zhou
    • Xiangyu Li

    Research Article 16 January 2023 Pages: 271 - 284

    

46. Application of homotopy perturbation method to the radial thrust problem

    • Lorenzo Niccolai
    • Alessandro A. Quarta
    • Giovanni Mengali

    Engineering Note Open access 23 November 2022 Pages: 251 - 258

    

47. Natural coupled orbit—attitude periodic motions in the perturbed-CRTBP including radiated primary and oblate secondary

    • Majid Bakhtiari
    • Ehsan Abbasali
    • Amirreza Kosari

    Research Article 23 November 2022 Pages: 229 - 249

    

48. Closed-loop deep neural network optimal control algorithm and error analysis for powered landing under uncertainties

    • Wenbo Li
    • Yu Song
    • Shengping Gong

    Research Article 23 November 2022 Pages: 211 - 228

    

49. Adaptive connected hierarchical optimization algorithm for minimum energy spacecraft attitude maneuver path planning

    • Hanqing He
    • Peng Shi
    • Yushan Zhao

    Research Article 23 November 2022 Pages: 197 - 209

    

50. Feasibility analysis of angles-only navigation algorithm with multisensor data fusion for spacecraft noncooperative rendezvous

    • Ronghua Du
    • Wenhe Liao
    • Xiang Zhang

    Research Article 23 November 2022 Pages: 179 - 196