EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The 23nd Annual AAS Rocky Mountain Section Guidance and Control Conference was held in Breckenridge, Colorado at the Beaver Run Resort February 2-6, 2000. This book contains the papers presented there.

(Extracted from the Preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Foreword. Robert D. Culp.

-Preface. Eileen M. Dukes.

-Section I: Advances in Guidance and Control.

-Enhanced Fault-Tolerant Attitude Control for Lockheed Martin's A2100 Spacecraft.
-The Two-Step Optimal Estimator and Example Applications.
-Test Results for the Automated Rendezvous and Capture System.
-Lost-in-Space: A Star Pattern Recognition and Attitude Estimation Approach for the case of No Prior Attitude Information.
-Design, Implementation, and Flight Results for All-Stellar Attitude Determination.
-Attitude Dynamics of the Genesis Spacecraft.
-Fire Control Design for High Energy (Laser Systems).

-Section II: Formation Flying and Constellations.

-A Projection Approach to Spacecraft Formation Attitude Control.
-Gravitational Perturbations, Nonlinearity and Circular Orbit Assumption.
-Nonlinear Dynamics, Trajectory Generation, and Adaptive Control of Multiple Spacecraft in Periodic Relative Orbits.
-Validating a Formation Flying Control System Design: the GRACE Project Experience.
-A Tethered Formation Flying Concept for the SPECS Mission.
-Project Orion: Carrier Differential GPS Navigation for Formation Flying.
-Mode and Logic-Based Switching for the Formation Flying Control of Multiple Spacecraft.

-Section III: Guidance and Control Issues for the International Space Station.

-Evolution of International Space Station GN&C System Across ISS Assembly Stages.
-International Space Station Assembly and Operation Control Challenges.
-Studies on the Attitude Control System Design for the Crew Return Vehicle.
-Thermal Radiator Pointing for International Space Station.
-Command Level Maneuver Optimization for the International Space Station.

-Section IV: Guidance and Control Storyboard Displays.

-Adaptation of a Spaceborne Geolocation System to Airborne Experiments.
-Nanosol - A Next Generation Sun Sensor.
-The TERMA Star Tracker for the NEMO Satellite.
-A Cost Effective, High Reliable RWA Solution to a Commercial Market Demand.
-Redundant Launch Vehicle Guidance.
-Radiation Hardened Power PC 603e Space Processor.
-ARU Architectural Solutions for Long Life Satellite Missions.
-Turbo-Charged Torqwheels.
-Progress of Fiber Optic Gyroscope Development for Space Applications.
-SOHO: Loss and Recovery 1998, Gyroless 1999.
-A Novel New GEO Earth Sensor Provides High Accuracy.
-The Design and Operation of the COTS Space GPS Receiver.
-Rocket Sounding Balloon Experimental Section 2000.
-In Flight Performance of the ZARM Magnetic Torquers MT80-1/MT140-2 Flown on the ABRIXAS Mission.

-Section V: GNC Technology for Micro/Nano Spacecraft.

-Formation Flying and Relative Navigation - A Nanosatellite Research Mission.
-MEMS Rate Sensors for Space.
-Dynamics and Control of Nanosatellite ASUSat1.
-Attitude Control - An Afterthought: The MightySat I Experience.
-MEMS-Based GN&C Sensors and Actuators for Micro/Nano Satellites.
-Digital Reaction Wheel Assembly RSI 01-5 for Small and Low-Cost Spacecraft.
-An Attitude Control System for an ASAP5-Launched Interplanetary Spacecraft.

-Section VI: Recent Experiences in Guidance and Control.

-Autonomous Orbit Control: Initial Flight Results From UoSAT-12.
-Fuel Optimization During Mars Global Surveyor Aerobraking.
-QuikSCAT Attitude Control System Initialization and Early On-Orbit Operations.
-Chandra X-Ray Observatory Pointing Control System Performance During Transfer Orbit and Initial On-Orbit Operations.
-The Recovery of TOMS-EP.
-Operational Experiences With Globalstar Constellation Control and Stationkeeping Using Solar Radiation Pressure.

-APPENDICES.

Publications of the American Astronautical Society.

-INDEX.

-Numerical Index.
-Author Index.