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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Technical Sessions</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="ffffff"> <h2> 1997 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Conference</h2> <dt><h3> SESSION 1 TETHER DYNAMICS </h3> <h4>8:30 AM Monday, August 4 </h4> <h4> Chair: ARUN MISRA, McGill University </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-600.html"><b>AAS 97-600</b></a> -- <b>TiPS: RESULTS OF A TETHERED SATELLITE EXPERIMENT ,</b> W. Purdy, S. Coffey, and B. Kelm - Naval Research Laboratory, W.J. Barnds - Swales Aerospace, and M.A. Davis - Allied Signal <li><a href="abstracts/97-601.html"><b>AAS 97-601</b></a> -- <b>EXPERIMENTS IN TETHER DYNAMICS PLANNED FOR ATEX'S FLIGHT ,</b> M.F. Zedd - Naval Research Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-602.html"><b>AAS 97-602</b></a> -- <b>DYNAMICS AND CONTROL OF A FLEXIBLE ATMOSPHERIC TETHER WITH A LIFTING PROBE ,</b> B.L. Biswell and J. Puig-Suari - Arizona State University <li><a href="abstracts/97-603.html"><b>AAS 97-603</b></a> -- <b>ORBITAL DYNAMICS OF TETHERED SATELLITE SYSTEMS ,</b> Y-M Cheng, S. Cho and J. E. Cochran Jr. - Auburn University <li><a href="abstracts/97-604.html"><b>AAS 97-604</b></a> -- <b> TETHER SLING SHOT ASSIST ,</b> E.L-M. Lanoix and A.K. Misra - McGill University <li><a href="abstracts/97-605.html"><b>AAS 97-605</b></a> -- <b> DYNAMICS OF A TETHER SLING ,</b> S.N. Kuchnicki, S.G. Tragesser, J.M. Longuski - Purdue University </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 2 GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION, AND ACCURACY </h3> <h4> 8:30 AM Monday, August 4 </h4> <h4> Chair: Dave Schmidt, University of Maryland </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-606.html"><b>AAS 97-606</b></a> -- <b>ON COORDINATE SELECTION AND COVARIANCE ESTIMATION IN ORBIT DETERMINATION ,</b> J.L. Junkins, M.R. Akella and K.T. Alfriend - Texas A&M University <li><a href="abstracts/97-607.html"><b>AAS 97-607</b></a> -- <b>A DYNAMIC ALGORITHM FOR PROCESSING UNCORRELATED TRACKS,</b> K.T. Alfriend - Texas A&M University <li><a href="abstracts/97-609.html"><b>AAS 97-609</b></a> -- <b>SATELLITE POSITION DILUTION OF PRECISION (SPDOP) ,</b> K.C. Carlton-Wippern - University of Colorado at Colorado Springs <li><a href="abstracts/97-610.html"><b>AAS 97-610</b></a> -- <b>IMPACT ERROR SCALING METHODS FOR MISSILE ACCURACY STUDIES ,</b> D. Hitzl and T. Merz - retired K. Last and J. Nakanishi - deceased, B. Marshall - Lockheed Martin <li><a href="abstracts/97-611.html"><b>AAS 97-611</b></a> -- <b> RANGE LIMITS OF ATTITUDE DETERMINATION ACCURACY ,</b> D. Mortari - Universita degli Studi "La Sapienaz" di Roma, Italy <li><a href="abstracts/97-612.html"><b>AAS 97-612</b></a> -- <b> A FRAMEWORK FOR THE COMPARISON OF STRUCTURALLY CONNECTED AND SEPARATED SPACECRAFT INTERFEROMET,</b> D.M. Surka and E.F. Crawley - Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc. </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 3 MISSION DESIGN 1 </h3> <h4> 8:30 AM Monday, August 4 </h4> <h4> Chair: CALINA SEYBOLD, The University of Texas </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-613.html"><b>AAS 97-613</b></a> -- <b>EARTH-JUPITER-EARTH TRAJECTORIES AND THE EUROPA ICE CLIPPER MISSION ,</b> D.F. Bender - Jet Propulsion Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-614.html"><b>AAS 97-614</b></a> -- <b>GALILEO EUROPA MISSION (GEM) TOUR DESIGN ,</b> J.L. Bell, J.R. Johannesen - Jet Propulsion Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-615.html"><b>AAS 97-615</b></a> -- <b>OPTIONS FOR A TITAN ORBITER AND MULTI-PROBE MISSION ,</b> P.A. Penzo - Jet Propulsion Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-616.html"><b>AAS 97-616</b></a> -- <b>GUIDANCE MARGIN AUGMENTATION IN LOW-THRUST TRAJECTORY DESIGN ,</b> J. Kawaguchi - ISAS, Japan <li><a href="abstracts/97-617.html"><b>AAS 97-617</b></a> -- <b> RECENT EVOLUTION OF THE MARS REFERENCE MISSION ,</b> B.K. Joosten - NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, S.J. Hoffman - Science Applications International Corporation <li><a href="abstracts/97-618.html"><b>AAS 97-618</b></a> -- <b> MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR: AEROBRAKING WITH A BROKEN WING ,</b> D.T. Lyons - Jet Propulsion Laboratory </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 4 CONSTELLATION ANALYSIS AND STATIONKEEPING </h3> <h4> 1:00 PM Monday, August 4 </h4> <h4> Chair: KATHLEEN HOWELL, Purdue University </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-619.html"><b>AAS 97-619</b></a> -- <b>A NUMERICAL STUDY OF FROZEN POLAR ORBITS ABOUT ELLIPSOIDAL SHAPED BODIES ,</b> H.J. Pernicka and T. Becker - San Jose State University <li><a href="abstracts/97-620.html"><b>AAS 97-620</b></a> -- <b>AN ANALYTIC APPROACH TO CALCULATING EARTH COVERAGE ,</b> B. Kantsiper and S. Weiss - MIT <li><a href="abstracts/97-621.html"><b>AAS 97-621</b></a> -- <b>OPTIMIZATION OF SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS FOR DISCONTINUOUS GLOBAL COVERAGE VIA GENETIC ALGORITH,</b> Capt. E. George - USAF, SMC/AD <li><a href="abstracts/97-622.html"><b>AAS 97-622</b></a> -- <b>UPH CONSTELLATIONS FOR CONTINUOUS REGIONAL COVERAGE ,</b> C. Ulivieri, G. Laneve, S.M. Hejazi M. - University of Rome, Rome, Italy <li><a href="abstracts/97-623.html"><b>AAS 97-623</b></a> -- <b>AUTOMATED STATIONKEEPING FOR SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS ,</b> N.H. Shah, R.J. Proulx, P.J. Cefola, and J. Draim - The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-624.html"><b>AAS 97-624</b></a> -- <b>A FEEDBACK CONTROL LAW FOR STATIONKEEPING WITH ON-OFF THRUSTERS ,</b> C.A. Kluever, G.S. Tanck - University of Missouri-Columbia </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 5 TRACKING AND NAVIGATION </h3> <h4> 1:00 PM Monday, August 4 </h4> <h4> Chair: CRAIG KLUEVER, University of Missouri - Columbia </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-625.html"><b>AAS 97-625</b></a> -- <b>CALIBRATING THE RECEIVERS IN THE NAVAL SPACE SURVEILLANCE "FENCE" USING SATELLITE LASER RANGING,</b> G. Charmaine Gilbreath - Naval Research Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-626.html"><b>AAS 97-626</b></a> -- <b>LASER RANGING TARGET CONSIDERATIONS FOR LEO SPACECRAFT ,</b> G. Charmaine Gilbreath, P.B. Rolsma, R.A. Kessel and J.A. Georges - Naval Research Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-627.html"><b>AAS 97-627</b></a> -- <b>RELATIVE NAVIGATION FOR AUTONOMOUS FORMATION FLYING OF SPACECRAFT ,</b> C. Gramling - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center <li><a href="abstracts/97-628.html"><b>AAS 97-628</b></a> -- <b>AUTONOMOUS NUCLEUS TRACKING FOR COMET/ASTEROID ENCOUNTERS: THE STARDUST EXAMPLE ,</b> S. Bhaskaran, J.E. Riedel, and S.P. Synnott - Jet Propulsion Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-629.html"><b>AAS 97-629</b></a> -- <b>AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION WITH LIDAR ALTIMETRY ,</b> Dr. C.J. Weeks, A. Girardi and J. Lynch - Loyola Marymount University <li><a href="abstracts/97-630.html"><b>AAS 97-630</b></a> -- <b>IMAGE BASED RELATIVE MOTION ESTIMATION AROUND A CELESTIAL BODY ,</b> T. Nakamura, H. Ohsawa, S. Sawai, J. Kawaguchi, and H. Matsuo - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 6 ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY </h3> <h4> 1:00 PM Monday, August 4 </h4> <h4> Chair: FRANK MARCOS, Phillips Laboratory </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-631.html"><b>AAS 97-631</b></a> -- <b>PRECISION ORBIT DETERMINATION USING ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY CALIBRATION ,</b> F.A. Marcos - PL/GPI, J.N. Bass - Radex, Inc., D.Larson - SAIC, and J.J. Liu - AFSWC <li><a href="abstracts/97-632.html"><b>AAS 97-632</b></a> -- <b>NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY PROGRAM ON EMPIRICAL MODELS OF THE THERMOSPHERE ,</b> J.M. Picone, A.E. Hedin, S. Coffey, J. Lean, D. Drob, H. Neal, D. Melendez-Alvira, R. Meier, and J. Mariska - Naval Research Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-633.html"><b>AAS 97-633</b></a> -- <b>TOOLS FOR MODELING THE THERMOSPHERE AND IONOSPHERE ,</b> A.G. Burns, T.L. Killeen, and W. Wang - The University of Michigan <li><a href="abstracts/97-634.html"><b>AAS 97-634</b></a> -- <b>NEUTRAL AND ION DRAG EFFECTS NEAR THE EXOBASE: MSX SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS OF He AND O+ ,</b> O.M. Uy, R.C. Benson and R.E. Erlandson - The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; G.M. Keating and J.C. Leary - The George <li><a href="abstracts/97-635.html"><b>AAS 97-635</b></a> -- <b>SATELLITE DRAG COEFFICIENTS ,</b> G.R. Karr and J.C. Gregory - University of Alabama <li><a href="abstracts/97-636.html"><b>AAS 97-636</b></a> -- <b>PREDICTION OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY ,</b> G. Heckman -National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration <li><a href="abstracts/97-637.html"><b>AAS 97-637</b></a> -- <b>NEUTRAL DENSITY SPECIFICATION USING FIRST PRINCIPLE MODELS: SEMI-ANNUAL VARIATIONS AND STORMS ,</b> T.J. Fuller-Rowell, M.V. Codrescu, J.M. Forbes - CIRES University of Colorado and NOAA Space Environment Center </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 7 SPACE DEBRIS AND SPACE FLIGHT DYNAMICS </h3> <h4> 8:30 AM Tuesday, August 5 </h4> <h4> Chair: ROBERT BISHOP, The University of Texas at Austin </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-638.html"><b>AAS 97-638</b></a> -- <b>OVERVIEW OF THE SECOND EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SPACE DEBRIS ,</b> D.B. Spencer, K. K. Luu - USAF Phillips Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-639.html"><b>AAS 97-639</b></a> -- <b>PROBABILITY OF COLLISIONS IN SPACE ,</b> K.C. Carlton-Wippern - University of Colorado at Colorado Springs <li><a href="abstracts/97-640.html"><b>AAS 97-640</b></a> -- <b>DYNAMICS AND CONTROL PROBLEMS IN THE DEFLECTION OF NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS ,</b> C.D. Hall - A.F. Institute of Technology and I.M. Ross - Naval Postgraduate School <li><a href="abstracts/97-641.html"><b>AAS 97-641</b></a> -- <b>ANALYSIS OF THE PEGASUS BREAKUP ,</b> J.G. Miller - The MITRE Corporation <li><a href="abstracts/97-642.html"><b>AAS 97-642</b></a> -- <b> OVERVIEW OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE FLIGHT DYNAMICS ,</b> R.D. Burns - USAF Phillips Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-643.html"><b>AAS 97-643</b></a> -- <b> INCORPORATING MODERN METHODS IN UNDERGRADUATE ASTRODYNAMICS EDUCATION ,</b> R.A. Madler - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 8 RENDEZVOUS </h3> <h4> 8:30 AM Tuesday, August 5 </h4> <h4> Chair: TOM CARTER, Eastern Connecticut State University </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-644.html"><b>AAS 97-644</b></a> -- <b>COPLANAR TWO-IMPULSE RENDEZVOUS IN GENERAL ELLIPTIC ORBIT WITH DRAG ,</b> J.A. Kechichian - The Aerospace Corporation <li><a href="abstracts/97-645.html"><b>AAS 97-645</b></a> -- <b>THE ALGORITHM OF THE TWO-IMPULSE TIME-FIXED NONCOPLANAR RENDEZVOUS WITH DRAG AND OBLATENESS EFF,</b> J.A. Kechichian - The Aerospace Corporation <li><a href="abstracts/97-646.html"><b>AAS 97-646</b></a> -- <b>OPTIMAL MULTI-IMPULSE ORBIT RENDEZVOUS BETWEEN NEIGHBORING ORBITS: A NUMERICAL APPROACH ,</b> T. Soo No - Chonbuk National University, Korea <li><a href="abstracts/97-647.html"><b>AAS 97-647</b></a> -- <b>AN ANALYTIC APPROACH TO OPTIMAL RENDEZVOUS USING THE DER-DANCHICK EQUATIONS ,</b> G.J. Der and R. Danchick - TRW <li><a href="abstracts/97-648.html"><b>AAS 97-648</b></a> -- <b> OPTIMAL BOUNDED LOW THRUST RENDEZVOUS WITH FIXED TERMINAL APPROACH DIRECTION ,</b> M. Guelman, M. Aleshin - Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel <li><a href="abstracts/97-649.html"><b>AAS 97-649</b></a> -- <b> TERMINAL MANEUVER FOR AN OPTIMAL COOPERATIVE IMPULSIVE RENDEZVOUS ,</b> J.E. Prussing - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 9 TOPICS IN CONTROL THEORY </h3> <h4> 8:30 AM Tuesday, August 5 </h4> <h4> Chair: LESTER SACKETT, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-650.html"><b>AAS 97-650</b></a> -- <b>LINEAR QUADRATIC REGULATOR CONTROL OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS DESCRIBED BY MATHIEU EQUATIONS ,</b> D. Mackison - University of Colorado <li><a href="abstracts/97-651.html"><b>AAS 97-651</b></a> -- <b>SUFFICIENCY FOR OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS INVOLVING PARAMETERS ,</b> D.G. Hull - The University of Texas <li><a href="abstracts/97-652.html"><b>AAS 97-652</b></a> -- <b>FEEDBACK CONTROL LAW USING THE EIGENFACTOR QUASI-VELOCITY COORDINATES ,</b> H. Schaub and J.L. Junkins - Texas A&M University <li><a href="abstracts/97-653.html"><b>AAS 97-653</b></a> -- <b>STABILIZATION DUE TO FINITE WORD LENGTH IN REPETITIVE CONTROL ,</b> Y. Hsin and R.W. Longman - Columbia University <li><a href="abstracts/97-654.html"><b>AAS 97-654</b></a> -- <b> CORRECTING FOR DISTURBANCES THAT A PERIODIC IN OUTPUT ANGLE RATHER THAN TIME IN REPETITIVE CON,</b> W. Kang and R.W. Longman - Columbia University <li><a href="abstracts/97-655.html"><b>AAS 97-655</b></a> -- <b> ON CONTROL OF SHALLOW SPHERICAL SHELLS USING LAYERS OF PIEZOCERAMIC ACTUATORS ,</b> S. Ghaedi and A. Misra - McGill University <li><a href="abstracts/97-656.html"><b>AAS 97-656</b></a> -- <b> STABILITY ANALYSIS OF OPTIMAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL HYPERSONIC SKIP TRAJECTORIES ,</b> L. de-Olive' Ferreira and A.F.B.A. Prado, INPE - Natl. Inst. for Space Research, Brazil; N.X. Vinh, University of Michigan, Michigan. <li><a href="abstracts/97-657.html"><b>AAS 97-657</b></a> -- <b> EFFECTS OF THRUST MISALIGNMENTS ON ORBIT TRANSFERS ,</b> D. Levy de Figueiredo Rodrigues and M. Lopes de Oliveira e Souza - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 10 ATTITUDE CONTROL </h3> <h4> 1:00 PM Tuesday, August 5 </h4> <h4> Chair: DON MACKISON, University of Colorado at Boulder </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-658.html"><b>AAS 97-658</b></a> -- <b>LARGE ANGLE IMPULSIVE REORIENTATION OF ASYMMETRIC SPACECRAFT WITH INPUT CONSTRAINT ,</b> S. Cho, Y-M Cheng, and J. E. Cochran Jr. - Auburn University <li><a href="abstracts/97-659.html"><b>AAS 97-659</b></a> -- <b>SIMULTANEOUS CONTROL OF ORBIT AND ATTITUDE MANEUVERS FOR THE GRO SATELLITE ,</b> B.A. AL-Bassam, D.J. Mook, and T. Singh - State University of New York at Buffalo <li><a href="abstracts/97-660.html"><b>AAS 97-660</b></a> -- <b>DISTURBANCE ACCOMMODATING ATTITUDE CONTROL WITH REACTION WHEEL ,</b> J. Kim, D. Shin - Inha Univ., Inchon, Republic of Korea <li><a href="abstracts/97-661.html"><b>AAS 97-661</b></a> -- <b>OPTIMAL CONES INTERSECTION TECHNIQUE FOR ATTITUDE POINTING ERROR EVALUATION ,</b> D. Mortari - Universita degli Studi "La Sapienaz" di Roma, Italy <li><a href="abstracts/97-662.html"><b>AAS 97-662</b></a> -- <b>APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS TO THE SATELLITE ATTITUDE CONTROL PROBLEM ,</b> G. Riestra and J. Puig-Suari - Arizona State University <li><a href="abstracts/97-663.html"><b>AAS 97-663</b></a> -- <b>CONTROL MOMENT GYRO (CMG) BASED SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE CONTROL USING FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION CONTRO,</b> R. Rokui and S. Kalaycioglu - Concordia University, Quebec, Canada </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 11 ORBITAL MECHANICS AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES - 1 </h3> <h4> 1:00 PM Tuesday, August 5 </h4> <h4> Chair: DENNIS BYRNES, Jet Propulsion Laboratory </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-665.html"><b>AAS 97-665</b></a> -- <b>EVALUATION OF J2-PERTURBED APSIS HEIGHT COMPUTATION METHODS ,</b> D.R. Adamo - NASA/JSC <li><a href="abstracts/97-666.html"><b>AAS 97-666</b></a> -- <b>MAXIMIZING THE LAUNCH WINDOW OF THE GLOBAL POSITIONING REPLENISHMENT SATELLITES ,</b> D. Cave and P.E. Jasper - Lockheed Martin Corporation <li><a href="abstracts/97-667.html"><b>AAS 97-667</b></a> -- <b>THE EVOLUTION OF HIGHLY-ECCENTRIC ORBITS ,</b> J. D. Fischer , P. J. Cefola , and R. J. Proulx- The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-668.html"><b>AAS 97-668</b></a> -- <b>CONJUNCTION/INTERFERENCE BETWEEN LEO AND GEO COMSATS ,</b> T.J. Lang - The Aerospace Corporation <li><a href="abstracts/97-669.html"><b>AAS 97-669</b></a> -- <b>LOW ENERGY INTERPLANETARY TRANSFERS USING INVARIANT MANIFOLDS ,</b> M.W. Lo - Jet Propulsion Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-670.html"><b>AAS 97-670</b></a> -- <b>MODELING ISSUES CONCERNING MOTION OF THE SATURNIAN SATELLITES ,</b> S.G. Tragesser and J.M. Longuski -Purdue University </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 12 HIGHLY-AGILE AND HIGH-ALTITUDE SPACE SYSTEMS </h3> <h4> 1:00 PM Tuesday, August 5 </h4> <h4> Chair: G.T. TSENG, The Aerospace Corporation </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-671.html"><b>AAS 97-671</b></a> -- <b>TRANSITIONING THE NATION'S SPACELIFT RANGE SYSTEM (SLRS) FROM RADARs TO GPS FOR PRIMARY RANGE S,</b> Capt. J. Ward - United States Air Force, SMC/CW, D. Villalpando - The Aerospace Corporation <li><a href="abstracts/97-672.html"><b>AAS 97-672</b></a> -- <b>SPACE LIFT RANGE SYSTEM LAUNCH VEHICLE TRAJECTORY MEASUREMENT CAPABILITY TRADE STUDY RESULTS ,</b> R. Baker, C.W. Morris, and J.F. Richardson - Lockheed Martin Corporation <li><a href="abstracts/97-673.html"><b>AAS 97-673</b></a> -- <b>EVALUATION OF GPS/IMU TRAJECTORY ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE FOR REALTIME MISSILE FLIGHT SAFETY ,</b> J. McConnell, R. Greenberg - SW/XPE and Dr. R. Brooks, Dr. J. Hsieh - ITT/FSC <li><a href="abstracts/97-674.html"><b>AAS 97-674</b></a> -- <b>MISSILE TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT TEST - 2 ,</b> S.H. Slivinsky, Lt L. Fountain, R. Galloway, and Capt A.M. Scott - Phillips Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-675.html"><b>AAS 97-675</b></a> -- <b>TRENDS IN POSITION DETERMINATION FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT SATELLITES ,</b> B.L. Simpson - The Aerospace Corporation and Capt T.J. Rade - USAF, SMC/CWI <li><a href="abstracts/97-676.html"><b>AAS 97-676</b></a> -- <b>NEW TECHNIQUES FOR ORBIT DETERMINATION OF GEOSYNCHRONOUS, GEOSYNCHRONOUS-TRANSFER, AND OTHER HI,</b> S.M. Lichten, Sien-Chong Wu, L.E. Young, J.M. Srinivasan, B.J. Haines - NASA <li><a href="abstracts/97-677.html"><b>AAS 97-677</b></a> -- <b>CHALLENGES AND OPTIONS FOR GEO USE OF GPS ,</b> C.C. Chao, M.D. Menn, J.L. Wong, S.L. Johns, P.H. Kim - The Aerospace Corporation </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 13 ATTITUDE DYNAMICS AND ESTIMATION </h3> <h4> 8:30 AM Wednesday, August 6 </h4> <h4> Chair: PETER BAINUM, Howard University </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-678.html"><b>AAS 97-678</b></a> -- <b>RELATIVE EQUALIBRIA OF A RIGID SATELLITE IN A CIRCULAR KEPLERIAN ORBIT ,</b> J.A. Beck, C.D. Hall - Air Force Institute of Technology <li><a href="abstracts/97-679.html"><b>AAS 97-679</b></a> -- <b>SATELLITE NONLINEAR ATTITUDE MOTION ABOUT AN OBLATE CENTRAL BODY ,</b> H.A. Karasopoulos - WL/FIMA and D.L. Richardson - University of Cincinnati <li><a href="abstracts/97-680.html"><b>AAS 97-680</b></a> -- <b>LARGE ANGLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SPINNING RIGID BODY SUBJECT TO CONSTANT TRANSVERSE TORQUES ,</b> R.A. Beck and J.M. Longuski - Purdue University <li><a href="abstracts/97-681.html"><b>AAS 97-681</b></a> -- <b>DYNAMICS OF AN ASYMMETRIC SPACECRAFT: ANALYTIC STUDIES ,</b> S. Tanygin and T. Williams - University of Cincinnati <li><a href="abstracts/97-682.html"><b>AAS 97-682</b></a> -- <b> INVESTIGATION OF NEARBY SOLUTIONS OF EULER'S ROTATIONAL EQUATIONS ,</b> S. Tanygin, D.L. Richardson, T. Williams - University of Cincinnati <li><a href="abstracts/97-683.html"><b>AAS 97-683</b></a> -- <b> AN ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUE FOR ESTIMATING ATTITUDE FROM EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD DATA ,</b> F. Curti - University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy <li><a href="abstracts/97-684.html"><b>AAS 97-684</b></a> -- <b> A QUATERNION FORM OF KINEMATIC EQUATIONS IN ROTATING REFERENCE FRAMES ,</b> L. Meister (Aramanovich) - TH Darmstadt, Germany </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 14 NUMERICAL METHODS IN ORBITAL MECHANICS </h3> <h4> 8:30 AM Wednesday, August 6 </h4> <h4> Chair: BOBBY WILLIAMS, Jet Propulsion Laboratory </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-685.html"><b>AAS 97-685</b></a> -- <b>AN EVALUATION OF THE JACCHIA 1971 AND MSISE 1990 ATMOSPHERIC MODELS USING NASA ODERACS2 DATA ,</b> S.H. Chastain, C.C. Chao - The Aerospace Corporation <li><a href="abstracts/97-686.html"><b>AAS 97-686</b></a> -- <b>TRAJECTORY PROPAGATION OVER VERY SHORT TIME SPANS ,</b> G.J. Der, A.T. Monuki, R. Danchick - TRW <li><a href="abstracts/97-687.html"><b>AAS 97-687</b></a> -- <b>MAINTAINING THE SPACE OBJECT CATALOG WITH SPECIAL PERTURBATIONS ,</b> H. Neal - GRC International, Inc., S. Coffey - Naval Research Laboratory, and <li><a href="abstracts/97-688.html"><b>AAS 97-688</b></a> -- <b>PARALLEL VERSION OF SPECIAL PERTURBATIONS ORBIT PROPAGATOR ,</b> B. Neta - Naval Postgraduate School <li><a href="abstracts/97-689.html"><b>AAS 97-689</b></a> -- <b> EPHEMERIS COMPRESSION USING MULTIPLE FOURIER SERIES ,</b> A. Segerman - GRC International Inc., S. Coffey - Naval Research Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-690.html"><b>AAS 97-690</b></a> -- <b> HYBRID EPHEMERIS COMPRESSION MODEL ,</b> F.R. Hoots, R.G. France - GRC International, Inc. <li><a href="abstracts/97-691.html"><b>AAS 97-691</b></a> -- <b> GEOPOTENTIAL PERTURBATIONS - AN EFFICIENT ALGORITH ,</b> E. Wnuk and I. Wytrzyszczak - Astronomical Observatory of A. Mickiewicz University, Poland </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 15 SURVEY PAPERS OF SELECTED NATIONAL SPACE PROGRAMS </h3> <h4> 8:30 AM Wednesday, August 6 </h4> <h4> Chair: RICHARD HOLDAWAY, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-692.html"><b>AAS 97-692</b></a> -- <b>THE CANADIAN SPACE PROGRAM ,</b> A.K. Misra - McGill University <li><a href="abstracts/97-693.html"><b>AAS 97-693</b></a> -- <b>THE JAPANESE SPACE PROGRAM ,</b> K.T. Uesugi - The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan <li><a href="abstracts/97-694.html"><b>AAS 97-694</b></a> -- <b>THE BRITISH SPACE PROGRAM ,</b> R. Holdaway - Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK <li><a href="abstracts/97-695.html"><b>AAS 97-695</b></a> -- <b> THE FRENCH SPACE PROGRAM THROUGH CNES FLIGHT DYNAMICS ACTIVITIES ,</b> G. Tavernier - CNES <li><a href="abstracts/97-696.html"><b>AAS 97-696</b></a> -- <b> ASI - ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY: MAJOR NATIONAL PROGRAMS AND PARTICIPATION IN THE EUROPEAN SPACE O,</b> C. Portelli and C. Rosini - Italian Space Agency, Rome, Italy <li><a href="abstracts/97-697.html"><b>AAS 97-697</b></a> -- <b> A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE SPACE ACTIVITIES IN TAIWAN ,</b> J. Chern - Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of China <li><a href="abstracts/97-698.html"><b>AAS 97-698</b></a> -- <b> THE ISRAELI SPACE PROGRAM ,</b> M. Guelman - Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, Israel </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 16 ORBIT DETERMINATION: TECHNIQUES AND RESULTS </h3> <h4> 1:00 PM Wednesday, August 6 </h4> <h4> Chair: PAUL SCHUMACHER, Naval Space Command </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-699.html"><b>AAS 97-699</b></a> -- <b>GALILEO ORBIT DETERMINATION RESULTS DURING THE SATELLITE TOUR ,</b> P.G. Antreasian, T.P. McElrath, R.J. Haw, G.D. Lewis, T. Krisher - Jet Propulsion Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-701.html"><b>AAS 97-701</b></a> -- <b>DEMONSTRATION OF MICROGPS FOR LOW-COST ORBIT DETERMINATION ,</b> Sien-Chong Wu, D. Kuang, S.M. Lichten, S. Nandi, L.J. Romans, J.M. Srinivasan - Jet Propulsion Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-702.html"><b>AAS 97-702</b></a> -- <b>IMPROVEMENTS IN MARS GRAVITY FIELD DETERMINATION USING RIDGE-TYPE ESTIMATION METHODS ,</b> C.F. Minter - Naval Surface Warfare and D.A. Cicci - Auburn University <li><a href="abstracts/97-703.html"><b>AAS 97-703</b></a> -- <b>THE NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY'S ORBIT/COVARIANCE ESTIMATION AND ANALYSIS SOFTWARE: OCEAN ,</b> M.T. Soyka, J.W. Middour, P.W. Binning, J. Fein, H.M. Pickard - Naval Research Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-704.html"><b>AAS 97-704</b></a> -- <b>ACCURATE ORBIT DETERMINATION FROM SHORT-ARC DENSE OBSERVATIONAL DATA ,</b> LtCol D. Vallado and Lt S. Carter - Phillips Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-705.html"><b>AAS 97-705</b></a> -- <b>USE OF THE RAVEN OPTICAL SENSOR FOR DEEP-SPACE ORBIT DETERMINATION ,</b> LtCol S. Wallace, C. Sabol and LtCol S. Carter - Phillips Laboratory/VTA </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 17 MISSION DESIGN 2 </h3> <h4> 1:00 PM Wednesday, August 6 </h4> <h4> Chair: STEVE HOFFMAN, SAIC </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-706.html"><b>AAS 97-706</b></a> -- <b>MESSENGER MERCURY ORBITER MISSION OVERVIEW AND TRAJECTORY DESIGN ,</b> J. McAdams and J. Horsewood - The Johns Hopkins University <li><a href="abstracts/97-707.html"><b>AAS 97-707</b></a> -- <b>STARDUST MISSION DESIGN ,</b> E.A. Hirst and C.L. Yen - Jet Propulsion Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-708.html"><b>AAS 97-708</b></a> -- <b>PROBABILITY ANALYSIS OF NEW COMET FLYBY FOR CONTOUR MISSION ,</b> A. Friedlander and D. German - Science Applications International Corporation <li><a href="abstracts/97-709.html"><b>AAS 97-709</b></a> -- <b>TRAJECTORY DESIGN USING A DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH WITH APPLICATION TO GENESIS ,</b> K.C. Howell, B.T. Barden and M.W. Lo - Purdue University <li><a href="abstracts/97-710.html"><b>AAS 97-710</b></a> -- <b>MULTI-ASTEROID BALLISTIC FLYBY MISSIONS INVOLVING LARGE ASTEROIDS ,</b> D.F. Bender - Jet Propulsion Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-711.html"><b>AAS 97-711</b></a> -- <b>LOW-COST MODIFIED LAUNCH MODE FOR HIGH-C3 INTERPLANETARY MISSIONS ,</b> H.F. Meissinger, J.R. Wertz, and S. Dawson - Microcosm, Inc. </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 18 OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES </h3> <h4> 1:00 PM Wednesday, August 6 </h4> <h4> Chair: JENG-SHING CHERN, Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology (C</h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-712.html"><b>AAS 97-712</b></a> -- <b>NOMINAL REENTRY TRAJECTORY SELECTION VIA OPTIMAL CONTROL ,</b> R.J. Baltrum, B.L. Pierson, and D.J. Chen - AeroAstro <li><a href="abstracts/97-713.html"><b>AAS 97-713</b></a> -- <b>OPTIMIZATION OF DV EARTH-GRAVITY-ASSIST TRAJECTORIES ,</b> L. Casalino, G. Colasurdo and D. Pastrone - Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, Torino, Italy <li><a href="abstracts/97-714.html"><b>AAS 97-714</b></a> -- <b>OPTIMAL LOW-THRUST TRAJECTORIES TO EARTH-MOON L2 HALO ORBITS (CIRCULAR PROBLEM) ,</b> T.F. Starchville, Jr. and R.G. Melton - Pennsylvania State University <li><a href="abstracts/97-716.html"><b>AAS 97-716</b></a> -- <b>MINIMUM TIME TRANSFER OF A CONSTANT LOW THRUST ROCKET BETWEEN ELLIPTIC ORBITS IN STRONG NEWTONI,</b> B.N. Kiforenko, Z.V. Pasechnik and I.Y. Vasiliev - Kiev Taras Schevchenko University L.R. Balkanyi and J.P. Riehl - NASA Lewis Research Ce <li><a href="abstracts/97-717.html"><b>AAS 97-717</b></a> -- <b>A DIRECT APPROACH FOR COMPUTING NEAR-OPTIMAL LOW-THRUST TRANSFERS ,</b> C.A. Kluever, S.R. Oleson - University of Missouri-Columbia <li><a href="abstracts/97-718.html"><b>AAS 97-718</b></a> -- <b>TIME OPTIMAL PATH PLANNING IN POLAR ROBOTS WITH JOINT FLEXIBILITY ,</b> M. M�ssner-Beigel, M. Steinbach, and H. Georg Bock - University of Heidelberg, Germany, R.W. Longman - Columbia University <li><a href="abstracts/97-719.html"><b>AAS 97-719</b></a> -- <b>THE CHOICE OF APPROPRIATE COST FUNCTIONALS FOR OPTIMIZING THE OPERATING SPEED OF ROBOTS ,</b> J. Li and R.W. Longman - Columbia University, V. Schulz and H.G. Bock - University of Stuttgart, Germany </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 19 FLEXIBLE BODY DYNAMICS </h3> <h4> 8:30 AM Thursday, August 7 </h4> <h4> Chair: DAVID SCHAECHTER, Lockheed Martin </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-720.html"><b>AAS 97-720</b></a> -- <b>EQUATIONS OF MOTION FOR AN N-LINK PLANAR SYSTEM FOR SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION ,</b> B.L. Biswell and J. Puig-Suari - Arizona State University <li><a href="abstracts/97-721.html"><b>AAS 97-721</b></a> -- <b>COMMAND SHAPING FOR NONLINEAR TRACKING CONTROL OF A TWO-LINK FLEXIBLE MANIPULATOR ,</b> A.K. Banerjee - Lockheed Martin Research Laboratory, W.E. Singhose - MIT <li><a href="abstracts/97-722.html"><b>AAS 97-722</b></a> -- <b>APPLICATION OF A SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION METHOD TO DIGITALLY CONTROLLED LARGE ORBITING PLA,</b> A.J. Ericsson-Jackson, P.M. Bainum and G. Xing - Howard University <li><a href="abstracts/97-723.html"><b>AAS 97-723</b></a> -- <b>FLEXIBLE SPACECRAFT REORIENTATIONS USING GIMBALED MOMENTUM WHEELS ,</b> K.A. Ford and C.D. Hall - A.F. Institute of Technology/ENY <li><a href="abstracts/97-724.html"><b>AAS 97-724</b></a> -- <b> DYNAMICS OF A FLEXIBLE PLATFORM DUE TO OPERATIONAL DISTURBANCES ,</b> V.J. Modi - University of British Columbia A. Suleman - Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal <li><a href="abstracts/97-725.html"><b>AAS 97-725</b></a> -- <b> ROBUST OPTIMAL CONTROL OF A FLEXIBLE SPACECRAFT ,</b> A. Tewari - Indian Institute of Technology, India </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 20 MISSION DESIGN 3 </h3> <h4> 8:30 AM Thursday, August 7 </h4> <h4> Chair: LINCOLN WOOD, Jet Propulsion Laboratory </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-726.html"><b>AAS 97-726</b></a> -- <b>SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION PERFORMANCE FOR MEDLITE AND DELTA CLASS PLANETARY MISSIONS ,</b> C.G. Sauer, Jr. - Jet Propulsion Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-727.html"><b>AAS 97-727</b></a> -- <b>MINIMUM Delta-V DEFLECTING EARTH-CROSSING ASTEROIDS ,</b> Sang-Young Park, J.T. Elder and I.M. Ross - Naval Postgraduate School <li><a href="abstracts/97-728.html"><b>AAS 97-728</b></a> -- <b>TRAJECTORY DESIGN FOR THE MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE (MAP) ,</b> K.V. Richon and Dr. M. Mathews - NASA/FSFC <li><a href="abstracts/97-729.html"><b>AAS 97-729</b></a> -- <b>SMALL SATELLITES FOR AERONOMIC MISSIONS IN THE LOWER THERMOSPHERE ,</b> G. Laneve - Aerospace Department, Rome, Italy <li><a href="abstracts/97-730.html"><b>AAS 97-730</b></a> -- <b> FLIGHT CONTROL, DYNAMICS, AND STRUCTURAL INTERACTION ON THE SECOND HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SERV,</b> L.L. Sackett, C.B. Kirchwey, M.C. Johnson, R.D. Barrington - The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. </ul> <dt><h3> SESSION 21 ORBITAL MECHANICS AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES - 2 </h3> <h4> 8:30 AM Thursday, August 7 </h4> <h4> Chair: JOHN COCHRAN, Auburn University </h4> <ul> <li><a href="abstracts/97-731.html"><b>AAS 97-731</b></a> -- <b>CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE DRAPER SEMIANALYTICAL SATELLITE THEORY STANDALONE ORBIT PROPAGATOR P,</b> J. G. Neelon, P. J. Cefola and R. J. Proulx - The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-733.html"><b>AAS 97-733</b></a> -- <b>THE ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIVE MOTION IN GENERAL ELLIPTIC ORBIT WITH RESPECT TO A DRAGGING AND PR,</b> J.A. Kechichian - The Aerospace Corporation <li><a href="abstracts/97-734.html"><b>AAS 97-734</b></a> -- <b>RELATIVE MOTION OF SATELLITES IN ELLIPTICAL ORBITS ,</b> R. Melton - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory <li><a href="abstracts/97-735.html"><b>AAS 97-735</b></a> -- <b>THE ASTRODYNAMICS OF NEW PLANETARY SYSTEMS: THE ELLIPTIC RESTRICTED 3-BODY PROBLEM ,</b> W.D. Kelly - Triton Systems <li><a href="abstracts/97-736.html"><b>AAS 97-736</b></a> -- <b> A NEW METHOD OF DETERMINING ORBIT LIFETIME PROBABILITIES FOR USE IN PLANETARY PROTECTION ANALY,</b> M.A. Vincent - Jet Propulsion Laboratory </ul> </dl>