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

Rendezvous orbital dynamics and control (RODC) is a key technology for operating space
rendezvous and docking missions. This paper surveys the studies on RODC. Firstly, the …

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 …

Autonomous close proximity operations are an arduous and attractive problem in space
mission design. In particular, the estimation of pose, motion and inertia properties of an …

The objective of this paper is to find periodic solutions of the circular Sitnikov problem by the
multiple scales method which is used to remove the secular terms and find the periodic …

MODELING relative spacecraft motion is of prime importance for formation-flying satellites
and distributed spacecraft systems, which constitute a significant share of planned future …

The well-known Hill–Clohessy–Wiltshire equations that are used for the design of formation
flight relative orbits are based on a circular reference orbit. Classical solutions such as the …

The recent addition of autonomous formation flying spacecraft to the world's satellite fleet
provides new motivation to study feedback control techniques. In this thesis, we develop …

This paper develops a tensor and its inverse, for the analytical propagation of the position
and velocity of a satellite, with respect to another, in an eccentric orbit. The tensor is useful …

The relative motion of an outline of the rendezvous problem has been studied by assuming
that the chief satellite is in circular symmetric orbits. The legitimacy of perturbation …