Dunes Flying in Formation In this image of a dune field in a large crater near Mawrth Vallis, some of the dunes appear to be in formation. For dune fields, the spacing of individual dunes is a function of sand supply, wi

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Cooperative Gust Sensing and Suppression for Aircraft Formation Flight Principal Investigator (PI): Marcello R. Napolitano, West Virginia University Science Co-I(s): Haiyang Chao, West Virginia University; Yu Gu, West Vi

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• Aerodynamics
• Turbulence
• Vortices
• Wingtip vortices
• Wake turbulence
• Formation flying
• Fluid dynamics
• Aerospace engineering
• Aviation

Enabling Spacecraft Formation Flying through Spaceborne GPS and Enhanced Automation Technologies= Frank H. Bauer*, Kate Hartman*, Jonathan P. How**, John Bristow*, David Weidow*, and Franz Busse** *NASA Goddard Space Fli

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• Technology
• Spaceflight
• Astronautics
• Satellite
• Air Force Research Laboratory
• New Millennium Program
• Goddard Space Flight Center
• Astrionics
• Tethered Formation Flying
• Unmanned vehicles
• Space technology
• Spacecraft

Dynamics and Control of Tethered Formation Flight Spacecraft Using the SPHERES Testbed Soon-Jo Chung∗ Edmund M. Kong† David W. Miller‡ Space Systems Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA 02139, USA

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• Spacecraft propulsion
• Coordinate systems
• Spacecraft
• Tethered Formation Flying
• Trigonometric functions
• Contraction
• Space tether
• Aerospace engineering
• Space technology
• Transport

Distributed Coordination and Control of Formation Flying Spacecraft Michael Tillerson, Louis Breger, and Jonathan P. How MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics {mike-t, lbreger, jhow}@mit.edu

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• Astronautics
• NEAR Shoemaker
• Simulation
• Spacecraft propulsion
• Spacecraft docking and berthing mechanisms
• Spaceflight
• Space technology
• Spacecraft

GVE-Based Dynamics and Control for Formation Flying Spacecraft Louis Breger∗ and Jonathan P. How† MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Formation flying is an enabling technology for many future space missi

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• Geometry
• Aerospace engineering
• Earth orbits
• Astronautics
• Spacecraft
• Orbit
• Linearization
• Tetrahedron
• Matrix
• Astrology
• Celestial mechanics
• Astrodynamics

DECENTRALIZED ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS FOR FORMATION FLYING SPACECRAFT Philip Ferguson∗ and Jonathan How† Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract Several space missions are being planned with large

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• Control theory
• Robot control
• Linear filters
• Estimation theory
• Signal processing
• Kalman filter
• Global Positioning System
• State observer
• Nonlinear filter
• Technology
• Systems theory
• Electronic engineering

AIAA[removed]ORION: A LOW-COST DEMONSTRATION OF FORMATION FLYING IN SPACE USING GPS Jonathan P. How, Robert Twiggsy, David Weidowz, Kathy Hartmanx, and Frank Bauer{

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• Satellite navigation systems
• Avionics
• Geodesy
• Navigation
• Global Positioning System
• Nuclear command and control
• Spacecraft
• Satellite
• Attitude control
• Spaceflight
• Technology
• Space technology

Onboard GPS Signal Augmentation for Spacecraft Formation Flying Tobe Corazzini and Jonathan P. How Stanford University

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• Military science
• Geodesy
• Satellite navigation systems
• Missile guidance
• Global Positioning System
• GPS signals
• GPS augmentation
• Antenna
• Differential GPS
• Technology
• GPS
• Navigation

REAL-TIME EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF PRECISE DECENTRALIZED RELATIVE NAVIGATION FOR FORMATION FLYING SPACECRAFT Franz D. Busse¤ and Jonathan P. Howy ABSTRACT

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• Avionics
• Satellite navigation systems
• Geodesy
• Global Positioning System
• Kalman filter
• GPS signals
• Satellite navigation
• Cosmic distance ladder
• Variance
• Technology
• Navigation
• GPS