Detecting celestial bodies while in deep-space travel is a critical task for the correct
execution of space missions. Major bodies such as planets are bright and therefore easy to …

Abstract Hera represents the European Space Agency's inaugural planetary defense space
mission and plays a pivotal role in the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment …

Satellite constellations can provide communication and navigation services to support future
lunar missions, and are attracting growing interest from both the scientific community and …

Small bodies in the Solar System are appealing targets for scientific and technological
space missions, owing to their diversity in intrinsic and extrinsic properties, besides orbit and …

The Artemis program has gathered further attention due to the transfer trajectories to the
Moon and beyond. Trajectories such as weak stability boundary and ballistic lunar transfer …

Satellites with cryogenic instrumentation have great potential for military, commercial, and
scientific space missions due to the increased sensitivity of their sensors, even for Low Earth …

On November 16, 2022, the NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) has been launched for the
first time in the context of Artemis-1 mission where, together with the Orion Multi-Purpose …

On ground satellite operations represent a significant part of mission development, both in
terms of cost and time. This is particularly true for CubeSats, which are intended as low …

Abstract Autonomy in spacecraft Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) is an ever-
growing topic in both academic and industrial research, due to the vast possibilities that it …

This paper revises the state-of-the-art of Earth-Moon ballistic escape trajectories via multiple
lunar flybys. It presents a sensitivity analysis to navigation and propulsion errors of an …