Symposium Program

20th International
Symposium

Symposium Program

24-28 September, 2007

Annapolis, Maryland, USA

Monday

(9/24)

Tuesday (9/25)

Wednesday (9/26)

(Main Auditorium)

Wednesday (9/26)

(Jonas Green Room)

Thursday (9/27)

Friday

(9/28)

Continental Breakfast in Atrium (7:00 – 9:00)

Registration

Greetings (9:00)

Session 1:

Navigation Techniques

Session 5:

Constellation & Formation Flying I

Session 9:

Guidance & Control II

Session 10:

Space Environment

Session 17:

Orbit Methods

Session 21:

Planetary & Solar Missions II

Morning Break (10:10 – 10:30)

Session 2: Guidance & Control I

Session 6:

Mission Operations

Session 11:

Orbit Control I

Session 12:

Attitude Determination

Session 18:

Orbit Control II

Session 22:

Constellation & Formation Flying III

Lunch Break (11:50 – 13:30)

Closing

Session 3:

Mars Missions

Session 7:

GPS Navigation

Session 13:

Constellation & Formation Flying II

Session 14:

Simulation Tools & Methods

Session 19:

Lunar Missions

Afternoon Break (15:10 – 15:30)

Session 4:

Orbit Determination

Session 8:

Planetary & Solar Missions I

Session 15:

Guidance & Control III

Session 16:

Mission Analysis & Design

Session 20:

Libration Point Missions

Reception Cruise

(17:30–19:00)

Symposium Dinner

(19:00-21:00)

Location: Historic Inns of Annapolis

Governor Calvert House Conference Center

58 State Circle, Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Phone 410.263.2641

Monday, September 24, Morning Sessions

Monday, Sept. 24, 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM

Greetings from Symposium Chairperson, Tom Stengle (NASA/GSFC)

Session 1 – Navigation Techniques

Monday, Sept. 24, 9:10 AM – 10:10 AM

Session Co-Chairs: Oliver Montenbruck & Philip Calhoun

James L. Carr (Carr Astronautics)

Measuring Image Navigation and Registration Performance at the 3-Sigma Level Using Platinum Quality Landmarks

Pier Luigi Righetti (EUMETSAT)

Flight Dynamics Performances of the MetOp A Satellite During the First Months of Operations

Roberto Alonso (Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CoNAE))

Visual Navigation - SARE Mission

Session 2 - Guidance & Control I

Monday, Sept. 24, 10:30 AM – 11:50 AM

Session Co-Chairs: James O’Donnell & Richard Harman

Melissa F. Vess (NASA/GSFC)

Determining a Method of Enabling and Disabling the Integral Torque in the SDO Science and Inertial Mode Controllers

Scott Starin (NASA/GSFC)

Guaranteeing Pointing Performance of the SDO Sun-Pointing Controllers in Light of Nonlinear Effects

Paul A. C. Mason (NASA/GSFC)

SDO Delta H Mode Design and Analysis

Phil Calhoun (NASA/GSFC)

Observing Mode Attitude Controller for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Monday, September 24, Afternoon Sessions

Session 3 - Mars Missions

Monday, Sept. 24, 1:30 PM – 3:10 PM

Session Co-Chairs: Tomas Martin-Mur & David Folta

Fernando Abilleira (JPL)

Broken-Plane Maneuver Applications for Earth to Mars Trajectories

Juan L. Cano (DEIMOS Space)

ExoMars Mission Analysis and Design - Launch, Cruise and Arrival Analyses

Stacia Long (JPL)

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Aerobraking Daily Operations and Collision Avoidance

Tung-Han You (JPL)

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Interplanetary Navigation

Victor Stepanyants (Russian Academy of Science/KIAM)

Motion Parameters Determination of the SC and Phobos in the Project Phobos-Grunt

Session 4 - Orbit Determination

Monday, Sept. 24, 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM

Session Co-Chairs: Bernard Kaufman & John Van Eepoel

Francisco M. Martínez Fadrique (GMV)

GRAS NRT Precise Orbit Determination: Operational Experience

Kyle T. Alfriend (Texas A&M University)

Orbit Determination of LEO Satellites For A Single Pass Through a Radar: Comparison of Methods

Yossi Elisha (Israel Aerospace Industries)

Orbit Determination System for Low Earth Orbit Satellites

Ryo Nakamura (JAXA)

Precise Orbit Determination For ALOS

Reception Cruise (5:30 PM – 7:00 PM)

Boarding begins at 5:15 PM at the City Dock

Tuesday, September 25, Morning Sessions

Session 5 - Constellation & Formation Flying I

Tuesday, Sept. 25, 8:30 AM – 10:10 AM

Session Co-Chairs: Oliver Montenbruck & Russell Carpenter

Philippe Cayeux (Astrium Satellites)

Anti-Collision Design And Performance Of The FFIORD Formation Flying Experiment On-Board Prisma Mission

Jean-Claude Berges (CNES)

CNES Approaching Guidance Experiment Within FFIORD Onboard PRISMA Mission

Michael Volle (a.i. solutions)

Maneuver Recovery Analysis for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

Philippe Gamet (CNES)

SIMBOL-X: A Formation Flying Mission on HEO for Exploring the Universe

Jean-Sébastien Ardaens (DLR/GSOC)

Spaceborne Autonomous and Ground Based Relative Orbit Control for the TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X Formation

Session 6 – Mission Operations

Tuesday, Sept. 25, 10:30 AM – 11:50 AM

Session Co-Chairs: Lauri Newman & Michael Mesarch

Ralph Kahle (DLR/GSOC)

First In-orbit Experience of TerraSAR-X Flight Dynamics Operations

Richard R. Harman (NASA/GSFC)

Space Technology (ST)-5 Post-Launch Ground Attitude Estimation Experience

John Van Eepoel (NASA/GSFC)

Standardizing Navigation Data: A Status Update

Mark Poole (Boeing Satellite Development Center)

Boeing Low-Thrust Geosynchronous Transfer Mission Experience

Tuesday, September 25, Afternoon Sessions

Session 7 - GPS Navigation

Tuesday, Sept. 25, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Session Co-Chairs: Tomas Martin-Mur & Cheryl Gramling

Roberto Lopes (INPE)

Autonomous Fault Detection On A Low Cost GPS-Aided Attitude Determination System

Tom Van Helleputte (Delft University of Technology)

GPS-Based Reduced Dynamic Orbit Determination Using Accelerometer Data

Oliver Montenbruck (DLR/GSOC)

GPS-Based Precision Baseline Reconstruction for the TanDEM-X SAR-Formation

OPEN TIME SLOT

Session 8 – Planetary & Solar Missions I

Tuesday, Sept. 25, 3:00 PM – 4:40 PM

Session Co-Chairs: Jurgen Fertig & Conrad Schiff

Shane Ross (Virginia Polytechnic Institute)

Fuel-Optimal Trajectories in a Planet-Moon Environment Using Multiple Gravity Assists

Ruediger Cramm (ESOC)

Gaining Confidence in Navigating Rosetta at Mars Swing-By

Greg Marr (NASA/GSFC)

Mission Design for NASA's Inner Heliospheric Sentinels and ESA's Solar Orbiter Missions

Frank Budnik (ESA)

Rosetta Navigation at its Mars Swing-By

Luciano Iess (Universita’ La Sapienza)

The Determination of Titan's Gravity Field from Doppler Tracking of the Cassini Spacecraft

Wednesday, September 26, Morning Sessions

Session 9 - Guidance & Control II

Main Auditorium

Wednesday, Sept. 26, 8:30 AM – 10:10 AM

Session Co-Chairs: Oscar Hsu & Melissa Vess

Jun'ichiro Kawaguchi (JAXA)

Attitude Control Flight Experience: Coping with Solar Radiation and Ion Engines Leak Thrust in Hayabusa (MUSES-C)

Jesus Gil Fernandez (GMV Aerospace and Defence)

Autonomous GNC Algorithms for NEO Impactor Missions

Joachim Keil (ESOC)

Contingency Operations During Failure of Inertial Attitude Acquisition Due to Star Tracker Blinding for Three-Axes-Stabilized Interplanetary Spacecraft

Mathias Lauer (ESOC)

Operational Experience with Autonomous Star Trackers on ESA Interplanetary Spacecraft

Joseph Hashmall (a.i. solutions)

Solar Dynamics Observatory High Gain Antenna Handover Planning

Session 10 - Space Environment

Jonas Green Room

Wednesday, Sept. 26, 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM

Session Co-Chairs: Yuri Kolyuka & Neerav Shah

Kenneth Schatten (a.i. solutions)

Solar Cycle #24 and The Solar Dynamo

Laurent Peret (ATOS ORIGIN/CNES)

Detection of Orbital Debris Collision Risks for the Automated Transfer Vehicle

Trevor Morley (ESA)

Effects on Spacecraft Radiometric Data at Superior Solar Conjunction

Luciano Anselmo (ISTI/CNR)

Evolution of the Debris Cloud Generated by the Fengyun-1C Fragmentation Event

OPEN TIME SLOT

Session 11 - Orbit Control I

Main Auditorium

Wednesday, Sept. 26, 10:30 AM – 11:50 AM

Session Co-Chairs: Jacques Foliard & Mark Beckman

Dirk Kuijper (ESOC)

Analysis of Envisat Orbit Maintenance Strategies to Improve/Increase Envisat ASAR Interferometry Opportunities

David P. McKinley (a.i. solutions)

Long Term Mean Local Time of the Ascending Node Prediction

Sara Scarritt (Washington University in St. Louis)

Proximity Navigation of Highly Constrained Spacecraft

Emanuele Di Sotto (DEIMOS ENGENHARIA)

Guidance Algorithms for Non-Drifting Trajectory Generation and Control in RendezVous Missions into Elliptical Orbits

Session 12 – Attitude Determination

Jonas Green Room

Wednesday, Sept. 26, 10:30 AM – 11:50 AM

Session Co-Chairs: Jurgen Fertig & Alice Liu

Dan O’Shaughnessy (JHU/APL)

Attitude Sensor and Gyro Calibration for Messenger

Mark E. Pittelkau (Aerospace Control Systems Engineering and Research)

Autonomous On-Board Calibration of Attitude Sensors and Gyros

Michael E. Lisano (JPL)

Comparing Consider-Covariance Analysis with Sigma-Point Consider Filter and Extended Sequential Filter Formulations

Dan O'Shaughnessy (JHU/APL)

Impacts Of Center Of Mass Shifts On Messenger Spacecraft Operations

Wednesday, September 26, Afternoon Sessions

Session 13 - Constellation & Formation Flying II

Main Auditorium

Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1:30 PM – 3:10 PM

Session Co-Chairs: Jacques Foliard & Marco Concha

Alain Lamy (CNES)

Four-Formation In-Track Configuration Maintenance Strategy

Stefania Cornara (DEIMOS Space)

Design and Analysis of a Formation Flying System for the Cross-Scale Mission Concept

Yuichi Tsuda (JAXA)

Formation Design Strategy for SCOPE High-Elliptic Formation Flying Mission

Christophe P. Mandy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Implementation of Satellite Formation Flight Algorithms Using SPHERES Aboard the International Space Station

Jordi Fontdecaba i Baig (Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur)

Topology Of Relative Motion For Circular And Eccentric Reference Orbit

Session 14 - Simulation Tools & Methods

Jonas Green Room

Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Session Co-Chairs: Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi & Mark Woodard

Neerav Shah (NASA/GSFC)

A Multibody Slosh Analysis for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Takashi Hiramatsu (University of Florida)

Game Theoretic Approach to Post-Docked Satellite Control

Martin Lara (Real Observatorio De La Armada)

Hill Problem Analytical Theory to the Order Four: Application to Science Orbits Around Planetary Satellites

OPEN TIME SLOT

Session 15 – Guidance & Control III

Main Auditorium

Wednesday, Sept. 26, 3:30 PM – 5:10 PM

Session Co-Chairs: Richard Harman & Dean Tsai

Kuo-Chia (Alice) Liu (NASA/GSFC)

Jitter Test Program and On-Orbit Mitigation Strategies for Solar Dynamic Observatory

Kristin L. Bourkland (NASA/GSFC)

A Jitter-Mitigating High Gain Antenna Pointing Algorithm for the Solar Dynamics Observatory

Takanori Iwata (JAXA)

Modeling and Flight Data Analysis of Spacecraft Dynamics with a Large Solar Array Paddle

Nazareth Bedrossian (The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory)

Zero Propellant Maneuver Flight Results For 180 Degree ISS Rotation

Georges Aoude (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Two-Stage Path Planning Approach for Designing Multiple Spacecraft Reconfiguration Maneuvers

Session 16 - Mission Analysis & Design

Jonas Green Room

Wednesday, Sept. 26, 3:30 PM – 5:10 PM

Session Co-Chairs: Yuichi Tsuda & Edwin Dove

Detlef Sieg (EDS Operations Services GmbH)

Analysis Method for Non-Nominal First Acquisition

Rainer Bauske (TERMA/ESOC)

A Contingency in the Rosetta Reaction Control System: Alternative Cruise Trajectory Strategies to Cope with Degraded Delta-V Resources

Juan L. Cano (DEIMOS Space)

Mission Analysis for the Don Quijote Phase A Study

Manuel Carranza (GMV/ESA/ESOC)

Optimisation of the Future Routine Orbit for Mars Express

Nathan Harl (University of Missouri-Rolla)

Low-Thrust Control of a Lunar Mapping Orbit

Thursday, September 27, Morning Sessions

Session 17 – Orbit Methods

Thursday, Sept. 27, 8:30 AM – 10:10 AM

Session Co-Chairs: Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi & Cheryl Gramling

Douglas T. Ward (a.i. solutions)

Tracking And Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) Orbit Estimation Using An Extended Kalman Filter

Andy Dykes (a.i. solutions)

Contingency Support Simulation for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS)

Siegmar Pallaschke (ESA)

Cluster: Mission Overview and End-of-Life Analysis

Nikolai M. Ivanov (Mission Control Center)

Coronas-F Orbit Monitoring And Re-Entry Prediction

Rodrigo Haya Ramos (DEIMOS Space)

Flight Mechanics of the Entry, Descent and Landing of the Exomars Mission

Session 18 - Orbit Control II

Thursday, Sept. 27, 10:30 AM – 11:50 AM

Session Co-Chairs: Yuri Kolyuka & Michael Mesarch

Nicolas Faber (SES Astra/University of Strasbourg)

A General Approach To The Geostationary Transfer Orbit Mission Recovery

Antonio Pérez-Cambriles (GMV Aerospace and Defence)

GALILEO Station Keeping Strategy

Rivers Lamb (NASA/GSFC)

Stationkeeping for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

Klaus Merz (ESOC)

The METOP-A Orbit Acquisition Strategy and its LEOP

Thursday, September 27, Afternoon Sessions

Session 19 – Lunar Missions

Thursday, Sept. 27, 1:30 PM – 3:10 PM

Session Co-Chairs: Bernard Kaufman & David Folta

David Folta (NASA/GSFC)

Establishing a Near Term Lunar Farside Gravity Model Via Inexpensive Add-on Navigation Payload

Yusuke Shibasaki (University of Tokyo)

Optimization of Return Trajectories for Orbital Transfer Vehicle Between Earth and Moon

Yasuhiro Kawakatsu (JAXA)

SELENE Translunar Trajectory Reconfiguration Plan Provided for the Case of Main Engine Anomaly

Ralf Rigger (GMV/EDS/ESOC)

Smart-1 Moon Impact Operations

Steve Cooley (NASA/GSFC)

Trajectory Design and Orbit Determination for the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)

Session 20 - Libration Point Missions

Thursday, Sept. 27, 3:30 PM – 5:10 PM

Session Co-Chairs: Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi & Conrad Schiff

Masaki Nakamiya (Graduate University for Advanced Studies)

Analysis of Capture Trajectories to the Vicinity of Libration Points

Michihiro Matsumoto (JAXA)

Deep Space Transportation System Using the Sun-Earth L2 Point

Matthew S. Bitzer (Virginia Polytechnic Institute)

Optimal Electrodynamic Tether Phasing Maneuvers

Xiyun Hou (Nanjing University)

Transfer to the Collinear Libration Point L3 in the Sun-Earth+Moon System

Patrick Morinelli (HTSI)

Orbit Determination and Navigation of the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms (THEMIS)

Symposium Dinner (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM)

Phillips Restaurant - located at 12 Dock Street, Annapolis Harbor

Friday, September 28, Morning Sessions

Session 21 – Planetary & Solar Missions II

Friday, Sept. 28, 8:30 AM – 10:10 AM

Session Co-Chairs: Mark Woodard & Steven Hughes

Karlheinz Spindler (Fachhochschule Wiesbaden)

Estimation of Cometary Rotation Parameters Based on Camera Images

Daniel J. Scheeres (University of Michigan)

Orbit Mechanics About Small Asteroids

David W. Dunham (JHU/APL)

STEREO Mission Design

Jose J. Guzman (JHU/APL)

STEREO Mission Design Implementation

Michael Mesarch (NASA/GSFC)

Orbit Determination and Navigation of the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO)

Session 22 - Constellation & Formation Flying III

Friday, Sept. 28, 10:30 AM – 11:50 AM

Session Co-Chairs: Tom Stengle & Leigh Janes

Hui-Ling (Vicky) Lu (Optimal Synthesis Inc.)

Control of Formation-Flying Multi-Element Space Interferometers with Direct Interferometer-Output Feedback

Matthew Jeffrey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Multi-Objective Online Initialization of Spacecraft Formations

Jason W. Mitchell (Emergent Space Technologies)

Expanding Hardware-in-the-Loop Formation Navigation and Control with Radio Frequency Crosslink Ranging

Jun'ichiro Kawaguchi (JAXA)

Time-Varying Expression of the Formation Flying along Circular Trajectories

Symposium Closing (11:50 AM)

Symposium Chairperson, Tom Stengle (NASA/GSFC)