Technological progress has facilitated an increase in investigations of multi-spacecraft
solutions for science and commercial applications. Future space missions will require that …

This paper develops new tools for close-proximity spacecraft relative motion guidance in
slowly varying or quasi-periodic orbits in highly perturbed environments. The task of …

Small-body investigations by spacecraft are one of the most scientifically important space
exploration missions. Due to the strong uncertainty of the dynamics around the body …

In this paper, a novel approach is developed for the orbital design and control of a touch-and-
go sampling maneuver on a tumbling asteroid, utilizing a small spacecraft launched from a …