29th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics

Darmstadt, Germany, 22 - 26 April, 2024

The 29th ISSFD was jointly organized by ESA/ESOC and EUMETSAT.

Author, Organisation

Title

FLIGHT DYNAMICS OPERATIONS (1) - Chairs: Pierluigi Righetti / EUMETSAT, Frank Budnik / ESOC

Ambra Flammini, Telespazio

Meteosat Third Generation (MTG-I1), LEOP preparation and challenging execution: expect the unexpected [paper]

Andre Vasconcelos, CGI Gmbh

AEOLUS Operations for Assisted Reentry [paper]

FLIGHT DYNAMICS OPERATIONS (2) - Chairs: Yanping Guo / APL, Isidro Munoz / ESOC

Cliff Helfrich, Jet Propulsion Lab

Navigating Chandrayaan-3 [paper]

Javier Hernando-Ayuso, Ispace

Flight Dynamics operations for the first ispace lunar lander mission M1 [paper]

Rami Houdroge, CLC Space GmbH @ EUMETSAT

Elevating Operations: Centralized Flight Dynamics Monitoring for EUMETSAT's Growing Fleet [paper]

James Logan, Omitron Inc.

James Webb Space Telescope Navigation Optimization Challenges [paper]

Pere Ramos Bosch, ESA/ESOC

GENEOS – The new ESOC Earth Observation Flight Dynamics Software based on GODOT – Design, Capabilities and Operational validation [paper]

Benoît Remy, Cnes

Enabling NewSpace innovation thanks to off-the-shelf flight dynamics systems [paper]

SPACE ENVIRONMENT, ORBITAL DEBRIS AND COLLISION RISK MITIGATION (1) - Chairs: Isidro Munoz / ESOC, Alain Lamy / CNES

Giuseppe Di Campli Bayard De Volo, German Aerospace Center DLR/GSOC

ASSET (AScent SafETy) – a new Flight Dynamics Service for the Safety of Ascent Trajectories and Injection Orbits [paper]

Dario Izzo, ESA

NeuralODEs for VLEO simulations: Introducing thermoNET for Thermosphere Modeling. [paper]

Ksenia Klionovska, German Aerospace Center DLR/GSOC

SIMULATION OF PASSIVELY SAFE INSPECTION TRAJECTORIES FOR NON-COOPERATIVE SPACE RENDEZVOUS [paper]

Jan Siminski, ESA

Upgrade of ESA's collision avoidance system at ESOC [paper]

Zahi Tarzi, NASA-JPL

Deep-space Conjunction Assessment: Recent Developments and Future Evolution [paper]

Andrea Zollo, German Aerospace Center DLR/GSOC

Long-term collision probability computation through high-order Taylor polynomials optimisation [paper]

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION - Chairs: Jose Maria de Juana / EUMETSAT, Ralph Kahle / DLR

Simone Andolfo, Sapienza University Of Rome

Spacecraft orbit determination through a joint processing of imaging and radio-tracking data [paper]

Sui Chen, Politecnico di Milano

Autonomous navigation using integrated X-pulsar and optical measurements [paper]

Edoardo Ciccarelli, University Of Surrey

Autonomous Navigation around Phobos: Applications to the Martian Moons eXploration mission. [paper]

Shunsuke Shimomura, The University Of Tokyo

Error evaluation in multi-rate sensor-based estimation systems including modeling errors and non-Gaussian noise for satellite formation flying. [paper]

FORMATION FLYING - Chairs: Pierluigi Righetti / EUMETSAT, Ralph Kahle / DLR

Fatima Alnaqbi, Technology Innovation Institute

Femto-Satellite Clusters Decentralized Control Strategy Based on Aerodynamic Forces [paper]

Takahiro Ito, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Compensation of Gravitational Perturbations for Precise Formation Flying in Low Earth Orbit [paper]

Irene Valenzuela Molina, Cnes

POC_ESSAIM: Close Formation-flying demonstration of 3 nanosatellites in LEO [paper]

CONSTELLATION DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE - Chairs: Frank Dreger / ESOC, Antonio Prado / INPE

Jaime Fernandez Sanchez, GMV Aerospace and Defence

MAORI – A NEW FLIGHT DYNAMICS AND GEODESY LIBRARY [paper]

Marco Lombardo, University of Bologna

GODOTflow: an actor-based toolkit to support near real-time flight dynamics operations [paper]

Romain Pinede, CNES

Methods for constellation design in projects in early phases, based on studies carried out at CNES in recent years [paper]

Antonio Prado, National Institute for Space Research

Design of Small Satellite Constellations for Data Communication [paper]

Zhe Xu, Zhuzhou Space Interstellar Satellite Technology Co., Ltd.

A Reliable Design Optimization Method for Precise Repeat-Track Orbit [paper]

FLIGHT DYNAMICS OPERATIONS (3) - Chairs: Frank Dreger / ESOC, Junichiro Kawaguchi/ANU

Javier Berzosa Molina, GMV Aerospace and Defence

BECKETT – A Flight Dynamics System based on GODOT [paper]

Mikel Catania, CLC Space GmbH at EUMETSAT

Accuracy of Sentinel-3 operational orbit predictions with increased solar activity [paper]

Anna Fontan, CS Group - Germany GmbH

A semi-analytical approach towards efficient ground-track control for Low Earth Orbits [paper]

Miguel Angel Martin Serrano, Eumetsat

MTG-I1 Flight Dynamics Commissioning Operational Experience [paper]

Sabine POL-MORENO, CS Group - Germany GmbH

Orbit control and FD operations optimisation for the repositioning of a satellite in the frame of formation flying [paper]

MANEUVER DESIGN - Chairs: Jose Maria de Juana / EUMETSAT, Yanping Guo / APL

Laurent Beauregard,

Breaking traditions: introducing a surrogate Primer Vector in non Keplerian dynamics [paper]

MISSION AND TRAJECTORY DESIGN (1) - Chairs: Vicente Companys / ESOC, Naoya Ozaki / JAXA

Shamil Biktimirov, Technology Innovation Institute

Impactor-Observer Asteroid Lander Mission Concept for Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) [paper]

Aurélien FELIN, CNES

Hera cubesats operational mission analysis and trajectory design around binary asteroid for small bodies characterization [paper]

Shanshan Pan, Kyushu University

Interplanetary Low-Thrust, Gravity-Assist Trajectory Design Using Resonant Orbits [paper]

Amedeo Rocchi, GMV @ ESOC

Trajectory design for a Ceres lander mission [paper]

Yang Wang, Nanjing University

Solution Space Studies of Optimal Low-Thrust Trajectories in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem [paper]

MISSION AND TRAJECTORY DESIGN (2) - Chairs: Frank Budnik/ ESOC, Brent Buffington / JPL

Daniel Aguilar Taboada, Eumetsat

EPS-Sterna and EPS-Aeolus Mission Analysis [paper]

Lorenzo Bucci, Deimos Space for ESA

Trajectory design of ERO alternative return towards a lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit [paper]

Edoardo Ciccarelli, University Of Surrey

Trajectory Design and Navigation Analysis of a PLAsma TOrch Rocket Propelled Space Tug [paper]

Isabel Ibanez Jimenez, German Aerospace Center DLR/GSOC

Modeling and Optimization of Earth-Moon Transfers [paper]

Tomas Martin-Mur, JPL

The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return Campaign [paper]

Amedeo Rocchi, GMV @ ESOC

Planetary Protection impact on the trajectory design of the MSR-ERO mission [paper]

MANEUVER DESIGN (1) - Chairs: Daniel Aguilar / EUMETSAT, Antonio Prado / INPE

Livio Carzana, Delft University Of Technology

Calibration Steering Laws to Estimate the Optical Properties of NASA’s ACS3 Solar Sail [paper]

Fernando Gámez Losada, Delft University of Technology

Fundamentals of solar-sail orbital transfers around Earth [paper]

Yanping Guo, JHUAPL

Parker Solar Probe Highly Constrained Maneuver Design via Vector Decomposition [paper]

Harry Holt, University Of Auckland

Reinforcement Learning enhanced LQR and Control Lyapunov Functions for Proximity Operations [paper]

Milan Klinc, WGS Workgroup Solutions GmbH at EUMTETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany

Combined Orbit Raising and Spin Rate Reduction During Meteosat-8 End of Life Re-orbiting [paper]

Xiaodong Lu, Politecnico di Milano

Analytical approach leveraging orbital perturbations for spacecraft end-of-life disposal design [paper]

SPACE ENVIRONMENT, ORBITAL DEBRIS AND COLLISION RISK MITIGATION (2) - Chairs: Stefano Pessina / EUMETSAT, Ralph Kahle / DLR

Matthew Hejduk, Aerospace Corporation

Setting the Bar for the Replacement of the Probability of Collision Metric [paper]

Sung Wook Paek, City University Of London

Analysis of trends in momentum multiplication factor predictions and uncertainties in the DART mission [paper]

Martina Rusconi, Politecnico Di Milano

Active feedback control on post-mission disposal compliance to limit the space debris proliferation [paper]

TRACKING AND ORBIT DETERMINATION (1) - Chairs: Pere Ramos-Bosch / ESOC, Antonio Prado / INPE

Ignacio Acedo, GMV

Optical Navigation Analyses for Hera Proximity Operations [paper]

Gabriele Bellei, Deimos Space at ESA-ESOC

Bepi Colombo Orbit Determination during Extended Electric Propulsion Manoeuvres [paper]

Igor Gai, University of Bologna

Precise orbit determination of the LICIACube deep space CubeSat [paper]

Gerhard Kruizinga, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mars Sample Return Direct Earth Approach Navigation Analysis [paper]

Zubin Olikara, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Target detection and orbit determination for Mars Sample Return [paper]

ORBIT THEORY - Chairs: Miguel Serrano / EUMETSAT, Yanping Guo / APL

Giacomo Acciarini, Esa, University Of Surrey

Humans vs Machines: Computing Low-Thrust Transfers in the Asteroid Belt, a Comparison Between Astrodynamical Manipulations and a Machine Learning Approach [paper]

Giacomo Acciarini, Esa, University Of Surrey

Stochastic Continuation of Trajectories in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem via the Algebra of Truncated Polynomials [paper]

Davide Amato, Imperial College London

Fast Parallelizable Galerkin Method for Initial and Boundary Value Problems [paper]

Martin Lara, University of La Rioja

Improving accuracy of ideal-element propagation by manifold correction [paper]

Kenta Oshima, Hiroshima Institute of Technology

Patched Zero-Velocity-Bouncing Trajectories: A Low-Energy Path Planning Strategy [paper]

Javier Sanchez, ESA

An Altitude Control Strategy for Biomass [paper]

TRACKING AND ORBIT DETERMINATION (2) - Chairs: Stefano Pessina / EUMETSAT, Junichiro Kawaguchi / ANU

Felix Stechowsky, GMV

Catalog maintenance with non-cooperative maneuvering space objects [paper]

Piyush Kumar Gaurav, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

Aditya-L1: Reference Attitude design and analysis [paper]

Moeko Hidaka, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

An Integrity Assessment Method of Angles-Only Navigation Solutions in Non-Cooperative Rendezvous Operations [paper]

Junichiro Kawaguchi, Australian National University (anu)

An Innovative Step-by-Step Construction of Navigation Network around/on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies [paper]

Han Liu, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Maneuver prediction for constellation satellites based on the Informer model [paper]

GN&C MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS - Chairs: Frank Dreger / ESOC, NAoya Ozaki / JAXA

Anthony Aborizk, University of Florida

An On-Line Global Search Approach to Underactuated Docking Operations Via Model Predictive Control and the Cross-Entropy Method [paper]

Sergio Cuevas Del Valle, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Integral berthing with non-cooperative targets through a pseudospectral, shape-based solver and MPC [paper]

Yuki Matsumoto, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

GNC Design and Fuel Consumption Analysis in MMX Approach and Vertical Descent Phase [paper]

Chuncheng Zhao, Politecnico Di Milano

Energy-optimal low-thrust control of constrained relative motion for long-term spacecraft hovering [paper]

MISSION AND TRAJECTORY DESIGN (3) - Chairs: Frank Budnik / ESOC, Alain Lamy / CNES

Marion Burnichon, European Space Agency - ESTEC

Using intermediate NRHOs for phasing with the Lunar Gateway in future lunar exploration missions. [paper]

Jeremy Knittel, University Of Colorado

Automated Optimization of Weak Stability Boundary Lunar Transfers for the LunaH-Map Mission [paper]

Alessandro Martinelli, Politecnico Di Milano

Design and Optimization of Weak Stability Boundary Transfers to Unstable Libration-Point Orbits: an Application to the LUMIO CubeSat [paper]

Sebastien Origer, European Space Agency - European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)

Closing the gap: Optimizing Guidance and Control Networks through Neural ODEs. [paper]

MISSION AND TRAJECTORY DESIGN (4) - Chairs: Vicente Companys / ESOC, Alain Lamy / CNES

Javier Hernando-Ayuso, Ispace

Ballistic Lunar Transfer design with constraints on the arrival orbital plane [paper]

Harry Holt, University Of Auckland

Extremely low-altitude lunar station keeping using eccentricity vector control [paper]

Junji Kikuchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (jaxa)

Off-Nominal Trajectory Design of NRHO Transfer for Crewed Mission to Gateway [paper]

Pablo Muńoz, ESA

Hera Trajectory Design: from Launch to Arrival at the Didymos Binary Asteroid [paper]

Andrea Sesta, University of Rome La Sapienza

Nonlinear guidance for a transfer orbit to the Moon [paper]

Flavio Tagliaferri, Sapienza University of Rome

Global Optimization for Trajectory Design via Invariant Manifolds in the Earth-Moon Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem [paper]

MISSION AND TRAJECTORY DESIGN (5) - Chairs: Brent Buffington / JPL, Pierluigi Righetti / EUMETSAT

Jared Blanchard, Stanford University

Analysis of Invariant Funnels in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem [paper]

Spencer Boone, ISAE-SUPAERO

Catalog and characterization of science orbit configurations for an Enceladus orbiter [paper]

Stefano Campagnola, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Europa Clipper Mission Analysis: Design of the 21F31 Reference Trajectory [paper]

José Carlos García Mateas, ISAE-SUPAERO

Multi-Objective Dynamic Programming for Saturn Moon Tours Design [paper]

Danny Owen, University Of Surrey

Transfer Trajectory Design in the Jupiter-Io-Europa-Ganymede Tri-circular Problem [paper]

POSTER SESSION

José Carlos García Mateas, ISAE-SUPAERO

Automated Design of Pseudo-Orbiter Phases for Ocean World's Global Mapping [paper]

Jonas Hener, Uni Bern

JUICE: In-mission synergy of science and navigation ephemeris products - Application to potential benefits for statistical Delta-V expenditure. [paper]

Johannes Herzog, German Aerospace Center DLR/GSOC

A Novel Approach for Tracklet-Object Association Using a Pseudo-Probability Metric [paper]

Yuki Ishihara, Teikyo University

Quaternion Representation of Rotation from the Aspect of Group Theory [paper]

Christophe Koppel, Kopoos Consulting Ind.

On the use of the Oberth effect [paper]

Pau Lahoz Gaitx, Isae-Supaero/CNES

Analysis of Distant Retrograde Orbits in the Earth-Moon system [paper]

Miguel Leiva, University Carlos III of Madrid

Deep Learning Optical Navigation for Efficient Active Debris Removal [paper]

Sabine POL-MORENO, CS Group - Germany GmbH

Criticality of the fuel consumption estimation towards the End Of Life of a satellite [paper]

Antonio Prado, National Institute for Space Research

Analytical Modeling of Gravitational Potential of Irregularly Shaped Celestial Bodies: Application to (101955) Bennu [paper]

Jesús Robles, GMV Aerospace and Defence, SAU

Leader-follower: a formation flying strategy for Earth observation missions. [paper]

Juan Félix San-juan, University Of La Rioja

A PARAMETRIC STUDY OF ORBITAL LIFETIME BASED ON SEMI-ANALYTICAL INTEGRATION—THE CASE OF INTEGRAL [paper]

Romain Serra, Exotrail

Impulsive, high-fidelity station keeping using semi-infinite programming: application to the geosynchronous case [paper]

Lorenz Veithen, Delft University of Technology @ Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

Feasibility Analysis of Small-Size Space Debris Removal in Low-Earth Orbit by Space-Based Laser Ablation [paper]

Lorenz Veithen, Delft University of Technology @ Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

Predictor-Controller Approach for Q-Law 6th Element Targeting in Low-Thrust Trajectory Design [paper]

Davide Amato, Imperial College London

Revisiting Filtering of Two-Line Element Sets for Higher Precision Ephemerides [paper]