Spaceflight Division Publications
Here are publications related to current missions and studies by the Spaceflight Division under the Engineering Directorate at the NASA Ames Research Center.
Flight Dynamics
Stability and spin-orbit resonance analysis of low altitude Martian orbits
Space Flight Mechanics Meeting | January 2019
Arcus Mission Design: Stable Lunar-resonant High Earth Orbit for X-ray Astronomy
Astrodynamics Specialist Conference August 2018
DARE Mission Design: Low RFI Observations from a Low-altitude, Frozen Lunar Orbit
Space Flight Mechanics Meeting | February 2017
Trajectory and Navigation design for an impactor mission concept
Advances in the Astronautical Sciences Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting | February 2017
Trajectory Design from GTO to Near-Equatorial Lunar Orbit for the Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) Spacecraft
Advances in the Astronautical Sciences Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting | April 2015
Trade Studies in LADEE Trajectory Design
Advances in the Astronautical Sciences Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting | January 2015
The LADEE Trajectory as Flown
Space Flight Mechanics Meeting | January 2015
Systems Engineering, Integration, and Testing
A New Concurrent Engineering For NASA Ames Research Center
IEEE Aerospace Conference | March 2021
MARSBOx: Fungal and Bacterial Endurance From a Balloon-Flown Analog Mission in the Stratosphere
Frontiers in Microbiology | February 2021
EcAMSat – NASA’s first 6U Biological Spacecraft: System Integration and Environmental Test
NASA Technical | September 2020
Starling1: Swarm Technology Demonstration
Small Satellite Conference | August 2018
Stratosphere conditions inactivate bacterial endospores from a Mars spacecraft assembly facility
Astrobiology | April 2017
Microgravity validation of a novel system for RNA isolation and multiplex quantitative real time PCR analysis of gene expression on the International Space Station
PLOS ONE | September 2017
Starling
Starling CubeSat Swarm Technology Demonstration Mission
Small Satellite Conference | August 2020
Starling1: Swarm Technology Demonstration
Small Satellite Conference | August 2018
CLICK
Design and Prototyping of a Nanosatellite Laser Communications Terminal for the Cubesat Laser Infrared CrosslinK (CLICK) B/C Mission
Small Satellite Conference | August 2020
Testing of the CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK (CLICK-A) Payload
Small Satellite Conference | August 2020
Characterization of laser thermal loading on microelectromechanical systems-based fast steering mirror in vacuum
Optical Engineering | May 2020
Optical Communications Crosslink Payload Prototype Development for the Cubesat Laser Infrared CrosslinK (CLICK) Mission
Small Satellite Conference | 2019
Optomechanical Design and Analysis for Nanosatellite Laser Communications
Small Satellite Conference | 2019
Laser Communication Crosslinks for Satellite Autonomous Navigation
Small Satellite Conference | 2018
Time-To-Digital Converter vs. Analog-To-Digital Converter and Matched Filter Performance in Nanosatellite Optical Receivers
Small Satellite Conference | 2018
The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK Mission (CLICK)
International Conference on Space Optics | October 2018
