3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
Station-Keeping Approach for Extremely Low Lunar Orbits with Solar Sailing
Jack Yarndley, Gregory Lantoine, Roberto Armellin
Renewed interest in cislunar space has created opportunities for sustained operations in extremely low-lunar orbits (eLLOs), where altitudes below 50~km enable close surface proxim…
math.NA2025
Extensive Database of Spatial Ballistic Captures with Application to Lunar Trailblazer
Lorenzo Anoè, Roberto Armellin, Gregory Lantoine +1
For low-energy missions to the Moon and beyond, Ballistic Capture has proven to be a valuable technique for enabling orbital insertion while alleviating propulsion system requireme…
physics.space-ph2024
Autonomy in the Real-World: Autonomous Trajectory Planning for Asteroid Reconnaissance via Stochastic Optimization
Kazuya Echigo, Abhishek Cauligi, Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay +4
This paper presents the development and evaluation of an optimization-based autonomous trajectory planning algorithm for the asteroid reconnaissance phase of a deep-space explorati…