Recent advances in space technology provide an opportunity for small satellites to be
launched in cislunar space. However, tracking these small satellites still depends on ground …

The Iris software radio has been updated to collect one-way Doppler and range data for
potential use with deep space autonomous navigation. One-way radiometric data have …

As tools are developed for operational orbit determination and navigation in NRHOs for both
Gateway and the upcoming CAPSTONE mission, there is interest in determining the …

Abstract The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is heavily relied on for the
navigation of Earth satellites. For satellites in cislunar space and beyond, GNSS is not …

When ground station tracking or Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are not
readily available, orbit determination can be challenging. For these situations, a …

Launched on June 28th, 2022, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology
Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission is a highly capable 12U …

The ability of a deep space spacecraft to estimate its position, velocity, and clock errors
without external clock error estimation is investigated. A novel approach to onboard …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-1504. vid Operations in cislunar
space are expected to greatly increase over the next decade, which will place a heightened …

The Moon is the closest celestial body to the Earth. The examination and discovery of this
planet have always played an important role in the history of humanity. Since the beginning …

Over the next decade, there will be an expected increase in human activity around the lunar
sphere of influence, referred to throughout this paper as Cislunar space. This growth is …