This paper presents innovative approaches for guidance of spacecraft formations during
reconfiguration, developed under the paradigms of cluster autonomy and safe …

Since the successful rendezvous of the Gemini VI and VII spacecraft in 1965, spacecraft
formation flying has attracted the interest of many researchers in the field. Yet, existing …

Numerical methods have proven to be reliable tools in generating long-term bounded
relative trajectories in nontrivial dynamical environments. Yet, none of the existing …

Searching for naturally bounded relative orbits in a zonal gravitational field is a crucial and
challenging task in astrodynamics. In this work, a semi-analytical approach based on high …

This work establishes a general-purpose method for designing passive spacecraft
formations by characterizing the vehicles' motion on quasi-periodic tori. First, a torus-centric …

A new non-simplified model of formation flying is derived in the presence of an oblate main-
body and third-body perturbation. In the proposed model, considering the perturbation of the …

abstract This study addresses the boundary and fluctuation of invariant relative orbits for
spacecraft formation flying in a high-order gravitational field. The invariant relative condition …

Finding relative orbits for satellite formations flying around the Earth, which are long-term
bounded under various perturbations, has been a vibrant field of study. However, much less …

Periodic orbits are the most commonly exploited dynamical structure in the preliminary
spacecraft trajectory design stages. Recent advancements now enable the efficient …

IN RECENT years the studies on distributing the functionality of large spacecraft into a group
of smaller and cooperating ones keep constantly emerging due to its successful application …