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Tag: Trajectory design

May 23, 2022June 3, 2022News

Marco Nugnes’ Research Stay at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Marco Nugnes, from the COMPASS team, is spending six months of his PhD at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory under the Visiting Student Research Program (JVSRP), where he will work on his PhD research on low-thrust trajectory optimisation using the technique of the differential dynamic programming.

April 6, 2022April 7, 2022News

Low-thrust de-orbiting from Low Earth Orbit through natural perturbations

How to enhance end-of-life deorbiting by using orbit perturbations? Check this out in the Open Access paper by Simeng Huang, Camilla Colombo, Elisa Maria Alessi, Yang Wang and Zhili Hou

April 4, 2022April 4, 2022News

New Open Access paper on b-plane

Improving the model of b-plane circles and using it for flyby design: check out the new Open Access paper by Alessandro Masat, Matteo Romano and Camilla Colombo. Find the paper here.

February 28, 2022February 28, 2022News

B-plane and Picard-Chebyshev for trajectory optimisation in Acta Astronautica Open Access

New advances in flybys and trajectory design open access! Alessandro Masat and Camilla Colombo introduce the use of the b-plane and the Picard-Chebyshev scheme to efficiently surf complex and chaotic orbital perturbations.
See the paper here

January 5, 2022February 12, 2022News

Alessandro Masat presenting at 2022 AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition

GPU computing can accelerate the trajectory design process in the high-fidelity environment. Alessandro Masat gave a talk at the 2022 AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition on how to make the most of this emerging compute architecture by augmenting the integration system.

February 4, 2021February 15, 2021News

COMPASS at the 31st AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting

The COMPASS team attended the 31st AAS/AIAA Virtual Space Flight Mechanics Meeting from 1st to 3rd February 2021. COMPASS members presented their latest developments in the fields of astrodynamics and orbital mechanics, with particular focus on mission design and trajectory optimization.

February 12, 2020April 14, 2020News

Davide Menzio‘s PhD Defence

Davide Menzio successfully defended his PhD thesis “Search-grid applications for trajectory design in presence of flyby” at Politecnico di Milano, to be awarded the degree of Doctor.

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