GNC for the Moon, Mars, and Beyond
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Astronautics & Space Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 15405
Special Issue Editor
2. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Chofu-City, Tokyo, Japan
Interests: numerical simulation; optimal control; convex optimization; pseudospectral methods; trajectory optimization; modeling and simulation; engineering, applied and computational mathematics; space; control theory; advanced control theory
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are approaching a new era in space exploration and exploitation. The human return to the Moon foreseen before this decade is out, and the renewed interest of public and (for the first time) private players towards the exploration of Mars are opening a potentially infinite variety of exciting missions. Moreover, asteroids’ deflection and in-situ resources exploitation is no longer a technological chimera, but a concrete scientific possibility at our hand.
As for any space mission, the corresponding Guidance, Navigation and Control subsystems are called once more to be the workhorse that can make the vision behind these concepts a technological reality, and with every vision comes a challenge, that many researchers all around the world are eager to face.
I am therefore pleased to announce this special issue of Aerospace, and would like to invite you to submit manuscripts focusing on novel solutions and recent advances for spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control methods for Moon, Mars, and asteroid scenarios.
This special issue will specifically focus on
- Trajectory Optimization
- Computational Guidance methods
- Novel Control Concepts
- High-Accuracy Relative and Absolute Navigation Algorithms
- Lunar Gateway-focusing Rendezvous and Proximity Operations
- Advanced GNC system design concepts
- Moon / Mars Descent and Landing High-Performing Guidance methods
- Moon / Mars Ascent GNC concepts
- Asteroid Mapping and Descent Robust Methodologies
- Interplanetary Low-thrust Guidance and Control Methods.
Dr. Marco Sagliano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- trajectory optimization
- computational guidance
- robust control
- entry, descent, and landing GNC
- rendezvous and proximity operations
- moon landing
- asteroid mapping and descent
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