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In this book, analytic methods of orbit prediction and control are investigated for important low-thrust and impulsive orbit change and station-keeping applications, and the results compared with actual exact numerically-integrated counterparts to evaluate their accuracy and applicability. With one eye on future autonomous on-orbit navigation applications both in near-circular and general elliptic orbit, with minimal computational effort and high accuracy, the orbit prediction and control segments of such autonomous navigation systems are explored by also taking into account the shadowing...

Interplanetary Spacecraft Navigation and Guidance examines a vast field that was developed to enable the exploration of the Moon and planets in the solar system by increasingly sophisticated spacecraft, flying-by, landing, or orbiting the inner and outer planets and releasing probes to enter their atmosphere. The book starts with the theoretical analysis of the information content of radiometric and optical data during planetary encounters. Then, in Chapter 2, an orbit determination accuracy assessment for an asteroid flyby is carried out to show how the dominant error in the determination of...