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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume of the Advances in the Astronautical Sciences contains papers presented at the AAS Malcom D. Shuster Astronautics Symposium held June 13-15, 2005 at the Holiday Conference Center in Grand Island, New York. Includes a CD-ROM.

(Extracted from the Preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-FOREWORD.
-MALCOLM D. SHUSTER: BIOGRAPHY.
-MALCOLM D. SHUSTER: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY IN ASTRONAUTICS.
-SESSION 1: THEORY
-Sherman’s Theorem: Solutions to the Multidimensional Nonlinear Real-Time Problems (AAS 05-451) James R. Wright.
-A Simple, Globally Convergent, Three Axis Attitude Observer Using Rate Data and Single Vector Observations (AAS 05-452) Reid Reynolds.
-Differential Games: A Pole Placement Approach (AAS 05-453) Jiann-Woei Jang and Norman Fitz-Coy.
-SESSION 2: ATTITUDE DYNAMICS
-Satellite Electricity on Orbital Time Scales (AAS 05-454) Peter J. Melvin.
-Reconfiguration of a Rolling Sphere: A Problem in Evolute-Involute Geometry (AAS 05-455) Tuhin Das and Ranjan Mukherjee.
-Gyrostats in Free Motion as a Test Bench on Integrability and Chaos (AAS 05-456) A. Elipe, M. Iñarrea, V. Lanchares and M. Arribas.
-On the Use of Chaos Indicators in Rigid Body Motion (AAS 05-457) R. Barrio, F. Blesa and A. Elipe.
-Attitude Dynamics of Satellites Orbiting Asteroids (AAS 05-458) Arun K. Misra and Yulia Panchenko.
-SESSION 3: ATTITUDE DETERMINATION I
-Single-Point Optimal Attitude Determination Using Modified Rodrigues
Parameters (AAS 05-459) Christian Bruccoleri, Deok-Jin Lee and Daniele Mortari.
-Attitude Filtering on SO(3) (AAS 05-460) F. Landis Markley.
-Estimation Using Quaternion Probability Densities on the Unit Hypersphere (AAS 05-461) Mark L. Psiaki.
-Attitude Estimation for Large Field-of-View Sensors (AAS 05-462) Yang Cheng, John L. Crassidis and F. Landis Markley.
-Planet Detection Algorithms for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (AAS 05-463) N. Jeremy Kasdin and Isabel Braems.
-Adaptive Estimation of Spacecraft Attitude from Vector Observations Using a Quaternion Particle Filter (AAS 05-464) Yaakov Oshman and Avishy Carmi.
-SESSION 4: KEYNOTE LECTURE
-Beyond Estimation (AAS 05-465) Malcolm D. Shuster.
-SESSION 5: ATTITUDE DETERMINATION II
-Cascaded and Decoupled RIMU Calibration Filters (AAS 05-466) Mark E. Pittelkau.
-Three-Axis Attitude Propagation from Digital Images (AAS 05-467) Roberto V. F. Lopes, Adenilson R. Silva and Hélio K. Kuga.
-Attitude and Orbit Error in n-Dimensional Spaces (AAS 05-468) Daniele Mortari, Sante R. Scuro and Christian Bruccoleri.
-Closed-Form Velocity Solutions in Lost-in-Space Attitude and Position
Determination (AAS 05-469) Sergei Tanygin.
-SESSION 6: ORBIT THEORY
-Optimal Altitude - Constrained Low-Thrust Transfer Between Inclined Circular Orbits (AAS 05-470) Jean A. Kéchichian.
-Fundamental Limits on Spacecraft Orbit Uncertainty and Distribution Propagation (AAS 05-471) D. J. Scheeres, F.-Y. Hsiao, R. S. Park, B. F. Villac and J. M. Maruskin.
-Necessary Conditions for Circularly-Restricted Static Coulomb Formations (AAS 05-472) Hanspeter Schaub, Christopher D. Hall and John Berryman.
-Nuclear Electric Sundiving (AAS 05-473) Dave Sonnabend.
-SESSION 7: ORBIT AND ATTITUDE THEORY
-Asynchronous Optimal Mixed P2P Satellite Refueling Strategies (AAS 05-474) Atri Dutta and Panagiotis Tsiotras.
-Effects of the Eccentricity on the Primaries in the Gravitational Capture
Phenomenon (AAS 05-475) Ernesto Vieira Neto and Antônio Fernando Bertachini de Almeida Prado.
-Analysis of Trajectories to Neptune Using Gravity Assists (AAS 05-476)
Carlos Renato Huaura Solórzano, Alexander Alexandrovich Sukhanov
and Antônio Fernando Bertachini de Almeida Prado.
-A Batch Algorithm for GPS Attitude Determination and Integer Ambiguity
Resolution (AAS 05-477) Mark L. Psiaki.
-A Survey of Attitude Estimation with GPS-Like Measurements (AAS 05-478) Luc Fraiture.
-SESSION 8: GENERAL
-The Brazilian Satellite Program – A Survey (AAS 05-479) Ijar M. Fonseca and Peter M. Bainum.
-The QUEST for Brazilian Space Research (AAS 05-480) Hélio Koita Kuga, Roberto Vieira de Fonseca Lopes, Valcir Orlando and Maria Cecília F. P. S. Zanardi.
-Nonlinearity Index of the Cayley Form (AAS 05-481) Andrew J. Sinclair, John E. Hurtado, and John L. Junkins.
-AFTERWORD
-APPENDICES.
-Publications of the American Astronautical Society.
-Advances in the Astronautical Sciences.
-Science and Technology Series.
-AAS History Series.
-INDEX.
-Numerical Index.
-Author Index