Gabriella Gaias

TL;DR: The Advanced Rendezvous Demonstration using Global Positioning System and Optical Navigation (ARGON) as discussed by the authors demonstrated the capability of an active servicer spacecraft to safely approach and rendezvous a non-cooperative passive client using angles-only optical navigation in a ground-in-the-loop fashion.

TL;DR: This work addresses the design and implementation of a prototype relative navigation tool that uses camera-based measurements collected by a servicer spacecraft to perform far-range rendezvous with a noncooperative client in low Earth orbit.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address and review multi-impulsive solution schemes for formation reconfiguration in the relative orbit elements space, in contrast to the available literature which focuses on case-by-case or problem-specific solutions, they seek the systematic search and characterization of impulsive maneuvers of operational relevance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited the modeling of the relative motion between satellites flying in near-circular low-Earth-orbits, where the motion is described through relative orbital elements and both Earth's oblateness and differential drag perturbations are addressed.

TL;DR: In this article, an impulsive manoeuvres' planner is proposed for onboard autonomous optimum formation flying reconfigurations in near-circular orbit. But this planner does not consider the mean effects due to the Earth oblateness coefficient and differential drag.