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Exoplanetary Tour Design with Solar Sails: TheAntipodes Results in the GTOC13 Problem
Jack Yarndley, Adam Evans, Xingyu Zhou +2
Solar sails present an attractive but challenging propulsion method for large-scale, long-duration trajectory design problems. In 2025, the 13th Global Trajectory Optimization Comp…
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Robust Angles-Only Initial Relative Orbit Determination Using Polynomial Optimization
Xingyu Zhou, Malcolm Macdonald, Roberto Armellin +2
This paper develops a robust angles-only IROD method based on polynomial optimization for arbitrary nonlinear dynamics. First, the relative motion is approximated by high-order Tay…