The space environment has become highly congested due to the increasing space debris,
seriously threatening the safety of orbiting spacecraft. Space-based situational awareness …

FORMATION flying (FF) has received much attention recently because of the advantages it
offers in terms of mission cost, performance, and flexibility as compared with a monolithic …

This paper presents system design and on-orbit results from the Advanced Rendezvous
Demonstration using Global Positioning System and Optical Navigation (ARGON). ARGON …

Relative navigation is a key enabling technology for space missions such as on-orbit
servicing and space situational awareness. Given that there are several special advantages …

This paper presents ultimate design, implementation, and in-flight performance of the
spaceborne guidance, navigation, and control system that enabled the Autonomous Vision …

This paper addresses the design and validation of an accurate estimation architecture for
autonomous angles-only navigation in orbits of arbitrary eccentricity. The proposed filtering …

Self-organizing control for satellite clusters is a challenging and promising problem which
has drawn considerable attention in the recent past. The artificial potential function method …

This work presents the design of rendezvous and close proximity operations for an active
debris removal service for maintenance and disposal of a large constellation fleet. The …

This paper presents a new algorithm for autonomous multitarget tracking of resident space
objects using optical angles-only measurements from a spaceborne observer. To enable …

This paper addresses the development and verification of an estimation architecture for
autonomous relative navigation in multi-satellite systems using angles-only measurements …