2 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
Enabling tomorrow's planetary defence and space resource economy: Autonomous fleet-based asteroid rendezvous missions
Stefania Soldini, Paul A. Abell, Daniel J. Scheeres +8
Asteroids preserve the solar system's earliest history and pose real threats to Earth. Strengthening the UK's capabilities to detect, track, and characterise Near-Earth Objects (NE…
astro-ph.IM2026
Pulsar Selection Criteria and Performance Evaluation of Autonomous X-ray Pulsar Navigation Systems
Sui Chen, Emilie Parent, Nanda Rea +1
Current space missions primarily depend on Earth-based Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) systems involving human-in-the-loop operations. X-ray pulsar-based navigation offers…