ABSTRACT Space Traffic Management (STM) and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) are
actively researched and applied in the near-Earth region. However, space fairing, including …

The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation
Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission is an upcoming lunar flight demonstration, with a targeted …

Building on previous work in cislunar orbit determination at Advanced Space, this paper
demonstrates cislunar orbit determination via simulated optical measurements from another …

This paper presents an efficient approximation for the second-order extended Kalman filter
(SEKF) for nonlinear systems possessing a dominant direction of nonlinearity, which we call …

The renewed interest in Lunar exploration prompts a need to better understand the
dynamics of spacecraft in the vicinity of the Moon. Here, a detailed survey is conducted via a …

As tools are developed for operational orbit determination and navigation in NRHOs for both
Gateway and the upcoming CAPSTONE mission, there is interest in determining the …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0999. vid The characteristics of
Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits (NRHOs) that make them desirable for cislunar operations also …

As part of the sustained approach for the lunar Gateway and Artemis program as a whole,
NASA is extending the logistics supply chain beyond low Earth orbit and to the Moon. This …

Near rectilinear halo orbits (NRHOs) in the Earth-Moon system are an increasingly important
class of orbits as more missions are planning to operate in cislunar space. The highly …

The moon, as the Earth's sole natural satellite, holds significant importance in human space
exploration and serves as a fundamental platform for further deep space endeavors …