The confirmation of gravitational waves in recent years has set off a new upsurge of
exploring the extreme interactions critical to the origin and evolution of stars, galaxies, and …

Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems by Hanspeter Schaub and John Junkins is a
comprehensive treatment of a stimulating and challenging subject that is both old and new …

Space agencies are now realizing that much of what has previously been achieved using
hugely complex and costly single platform projects—large unmanned and manned satellites …

Formation flying is defined as a set of more than one spacecraft whose states are coupled
through a common control law. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of spacecraft …

AUTONOMOUS formation ying of satellite clusters has been identified as an enabling
technology for many future NASA and US Air Force missions. 1¡ 4 The use of eets of smaller …

This survey deals with the problem of the group motion of spacecraft, which is rapidly
develo** and relevant for many applications, in terms of develo** the onboard control …

Formation flying is commonly identified as the collective usage of two or more cooperative
spacecraft to exercise the function of a single monolithic virtual instrument. The distribution …

In this paper a novel approach is developed for relative state estimation of spacecraft flying
in formation. The approach uses information from an optical sensor to provide multiple line …

The capture of a free-floating tumbling object using an autonomous vehicle is a key
technology for many future orbital missions. Spacecraft proximity operations will play an …

Time-delay systems have received much attention during the past several decades because
they have very wide applications in engineering practice such as chemical process control …