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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume in two parts presents the proceeding of the 10th Annual AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting held in Clearwater, Florida, January 23-26, 2000.

(Extracted from the Press Release).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Part II:

-Orbit Dynamics and Stability.

-Parallel Numerical Integration Methods for Orbital Motion.
-MEO Disposal Orbit Stability and Direct Reentry Strategy.
-Spacecraft Motion About Slowly Rotating Asteroids.
-Stability Analysis of the Europa Orbiter.
-Temporary Satellite Capture of Short-Period Jupiter Family Comets from the Perspective of Dynamical Systems.
-On Periodic Orbits Around Geostationary Positions.
-Focal-Type Elements Based on Quasi-Keplerian Systems. An Application to Satellite Motion.

-Mission Analysis for Earth Observing Satellites.

-An Improved Strategy for Maintaining Repeat Ground Tracks at High Latitudes.
-Risk Mitigation Using Monte Carlo.
-Earth Observing-1 (OE-1) Ascent Strategy.
-Landsat-7 Ascent Planning.
-GRACE Mission Design: Impact of Uncertainties in Disturbance Environment and Satellite Force Models.
-Mission Planning for the Twin GRACE Satellites (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment).

-Interplanetary Missions.

-Altimeter Range Processing Analysis for Spacecraft Navigation About Small Bodies.
-Shoot the Moon.
-Cassini Maneuver Experience: Finishing Inner Cruise.
-Cassini Orbit Determination From First Venus Flyby to Earth Flyby.
-Aeroassist Technology Planning for Exploration.
-A Light-Weight Hypersonic Inflatable Drag Device for a Neptune Orbiter.
-Development of a Target Marker for Landing on Asteroids.
-Trajectory Design for Low-Cost Main-Belt Asteroid Sample Return Mission.

-Orbit Transfers: Lunar and Libration Points.

-Optimal Trajectories for Secondary Payloads from Geosynchronous Transfer Orbits to the Moon.
-The Efficient Computation of Transfer Trajectories Between Earth Orbit and L1 Halo Orbit Within the Framework of the Sun-Earth Restricted Circular Three Body Problem.
-Moon Assisted Out of the Plane Maneuvers of Earth Spacecraft.
-Some Zero Cost Transfers Between Libration Point Orbits.

-Mission Analysis Tools.

-Near-Real Time Atmospheric Density Correction Using NAVSPASUR Fence Observations.
-Precision of a Multi-Satellite Trajectory Database Estimated from Satellite Laser Ranging.
-Effect of Atmospheric Density Uncertainty on Collision Probability.
-A General Method for Calculating Satellite Collision Probability.
-Accuracy Asessment of the Naval Space Command Special Perturbations Cataloging System.

-Tethers and Space Structures.

-Nonplanar Deployment Dynamics of the ASTOR Tethered Satellite System.
-A Two Bar Model for the Dynamics and Stability of Electrodynamic Tethers.
-Effect of Electromagnetic Forces on the Orbital Dynamics of Tethered Satellites.
-A New Kind of Dynamic Instability in Electrodynamic Tethers.
-Preliminary Orbit Determination of a Tethered Satellite.
-The Space Anchor: A Tethered Drag Device to Enhance Orbit Capture.
-Use of Tethered Satellite Estimation Methods in Identifying Re-Entering Objects.
-The Motion of a Flexible Beam Supporting a Moving Rigid Body.

-Interplanetary Missions: Mars.

-Mission Design for a Wright Brothers' Centennial Mars Airplane Mission in 2003.
-Evaluation of Mars Entry Reconstructed Trajectories Based on Hypothetical "Quick-Look" Entry Navigation Data.
-Mars Global Surveyor Azimuth Gimbal Anomaly: The Analysis of the Problem and Solution, and the Implementation.
-Aerobraking Trajectory Options for the First Mars Micro-Mission Telecom Orbiter.
-Earth Return Aerocapture of the Transhab Vehicle for a Manned Mars Mission.
-Mars Polar Lander Apporach Navigation.

-Control Applications.

-Structured Adaptive Model Inversion Applied to Tracing Spacecraft Maneuvers.
-Optimal Reorientation of a Multibody Spacecraft Through Joint Motion Using Averaging Theory.
-Potential Uses of Solar Radiation Pressure in Satellite Formation Flight.
-Accuracy and Optimality of Direct Transcription Methods.
-Control Laws for Minimum Orbital Changes - The Satellite Retrieval Problem.
-Mitigating Multi-Path Error by Neural Network.

-Appendices.

-Index.