Special issue published: "Spacecraft Formation Flying – Part III"

International Journal of Space Science and Engineering 2(2) 2014

Expanded versions of papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Spacecraft Formation Flying Missions and Technologies (SFFMT).

• Advantages of small satellite carrier concepts for LEO/GEO inspection and debris removal missions
• Relative mission analysis for PROBA-3: safe orbits and CAM
• In-flight performance validation of the TanDEM-X autonomous formation flying system
• Pose estimation of an uncooperative spacecraft from actual space imagery
• Real-time terminal guidance for autonomous spacecraft capture of free floating objects using model predictive control
• Distributed asynchronous planning and task allocation algorithm for autonomous cluster flight of fractionated spacecraft