The Oblate Lambert problem: geometric formulation and solution of an unperturbed, generalized Lambert problem governed by Vinti's potential

AD Biria - The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Numerous methods exist for solving the Lambert problem, the two-point boundary value
problem (BVP) governed by two-body dynamics. Many applications would benefit from a …

Tasking and Estimation for Minimum-Time Space Object Search and Recovery

SJ Fedeler, MJ Holzinger, WW Whitacre - The Journal of the Astronautical …, 2022 - Springer
A critical challenge in Space Domain Awareness (SDA) is gaining custody of newly detected
or maneuvering objects. The dynamically feasible location of one such object may be …

Optical Sensor Tasking using Monte Carlo Tree Search

SJ Fedeler - 2023 - search.proquest.com
As space object populations in the near-Earth and cislunar regimes exponentially grow,
increased supervision of the near-Earth environment is critical to space sustainability …

Cubesat cluster deployment track initiation via a radar admissible region birth model

JA Gaebler, P Axelrad… - Journal of Guidance …, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
TRACKING a CubeSat cluster deployment is a challenging endeavor. Technology
miniaturization is motivating a growing interest in CubeSats, which in turn creates a market …

[PDF][PDF] 天基光学监测空间碎片初始轨道确定

郭玲玲, 汪少林, 代海山, 吴泽鹏, 刘波, 周军… - Acta Optica …, 2024 - researching.cn
摘要天基光学监测可以有效弥补地基设备监测空间碎片频次低的问题. 为了提升天基光学监测下
初始轨道确定的收敛性与计算效率, 构建一种扩展目标函数模型, 提出在距离 …

Tracklet Association for Geosynchronous Space Objects Taking Impulse Maneuver

J Zhang, Y Jiang, H Cai, Y Yang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the continuous increase in the number of space objects and limitations imposed by
observation conditions, a significant number of short-arc observations, namely tracklets, are …

Mean-shift clustering approach to the tracklets association with angular measurements of resident space objects

T Zhu, X Wang, J Zhang, S Yu, I Molotov - Astronomy and Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
Hundreds of too-short tracklets of angular measurements, which cannot be correlated to
known catalogue objects, are usually obtained by an operation optical network every night …

Geometric Solution to Probabilistic Admissible Region (PAR)

U Mishra, S Chakravorty, W Faber, I Hussein… - The Journal of the …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract In the Initial Orbit Determination (IOD) context, Admissible Regions are subsets of
parameter space of orbital elements that are reckoned as functions of the tracking …

[PDF][PDF] Single-/Multiple-Revolution Lambert's Problem Constraints for Optical Track-to-Track Association

Y Yang, Z Li, H Cai, H Zhang - Advances in the Astronautical …, 2021 - researchgate.net
In optical tracking scenarios for Resident Space Objects (RSOs), the observing arcs are
usually sparse and short, resulting in failure of initial orbit determination using single tracks …

[PDF][PDF] Spooky Coordinated Tasking and Estimation on Uninformative Priors

S Fedeler, M Holzinger, W Whitacre - 2021 - amostech.com
For a variety of mission-critical objectives in Space Domain Awareness (SDA), it is relevant
to maintain estimates over large regions of state space using highly non-Gaussian …