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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Spacecraft Navigation"”.
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Lunar Laser Ranging for Autonomous Cislunar Spacecraft Navigation
… vantage points for scientific or military spacecraft missions involving the Earth or Moon. This thesis develops a new autonomous spacecraft navigation method for cislunar space and analyzes its performance applied to Lyapunov and halo orbits around $L_1$. This method uses existing lunar …
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Systems Performance Analysis for Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation within Satellite Constellations using Intersatellite Optical Communications Links
… previous constellation analyses, in particular navigation via OISLs within LEO mega-constellations like Starlink, Earth navigation constellations like the Global Positioning System (GPS), and notional Lunar & Mars constellations. We estimate the achievable performance in these applications and …
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Sampling and Searching Methods for Practical Motion Planning Algorithms
… as humanoid robotics, automotive manufacturing, spacecraft navigation, architecture, computational geography, computer graphics, and computational biology. Many of these methods work well on a large set of problems, however, they have weaknesses and limitations. This thesis expands the basic …
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Computer vision based navigation for spacecraft proximity operations
The use of computer vision for spacecraft relative navigation and proximity operations within an unknown environment is an enabling technology for a number of future commercial and scientific space missions. This thesis presents three first steps towards a larger research initiative to develop and …
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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Based Single Image Super-Resolution And Classification For Crater Detection
… about planets and may be used for autonomous spacecraft navigation and landing. Typically, crater detection involves two main phases: (i) hypothesis generation (HG) and (ii) hypothesis verification (HV). During HG, potential crater locations are hypothesized using unsupervised algorithms. The …
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Autonomous lost in space and time state determination using periodic variable stars
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Highly Physical Solar Radiation Pressure Modeling During Penumbra Transitions
… of the major non-gravitational forces acting on spacecraft. Acceleration by radiation pressure depends on the radiation flux; on spacecraft shape, attitude, and mass; and on the optical properties of the spacecraft surfaces. Precise modeling of SRP is needed for dynamic satellite orbit …