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Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Space Flight 3**

Chapter 2 **Space Thermal and Vacuum Environment Simulation 11**

Roy Stevenson Soler Chisabas, Geilson Loureiro and Carlos de

Chapter 3 **Fractal Pyramid: A New Math Tool to Reorient and Accelerate a**

Chapter 4 **Code Optimization for Strapdown Inertial Navigation System**

Chapter 6 **Consensus-Based Attitude Maneuver of Multi-spacecraft with**

Ivana Todić and Vladimir Kuzmanović

Chapter 5 **On Six DOF Relative Orbital Motion of Satellites 79**

George Dekoulis

**Section 2 Spacecraft Simulators 9**

Oliveira Lino

**Section 3 Spacecraft Navigation 33**

**Spacecraft 35** Alexander P. Yefremov

**Algorithm 59**

Daniel Condurache

Innocent Okoloko

**Exclusion Constraints 101**

**Section 1 Introduction 1**

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Innocent Okoloko

#### Chapter 7 **Mars Networks-Based Navigation: Observability and Optimization 119**

Zhengshi Yu, Pingyuan Cui, Rui Xu and Shengying Zhu

Preface

systems.

velopments in the area of space flight.

Strategies for Earth-to-Mars Trajectories."

Research and Experiments."

Complete Loss-of-Spacecraft Signal."

This edited volume is a collection of reviewed research chapters, concerning the recent de‐

The book includes scholarly contributions by various authors. It was edited by Prof. George Dekoulis, an expert on the state-of-the-art implementations of reconfigurable space physics

The book is divided into six sections: "Introduction," "Spacecraft Simulators," "Spacecraft

After "Introduction," the first section "Spacecraft Simulators" provides an overview of cur‐ rent ground-based space simulation chambers. It contains the following research contribu‐

The following section on "Spacecraft Navigation" consists of five research chapters, namely, "Fractal Pyramid: A New Math Tool to Reorient and Accelerate a Spacecraft," "Code Optimi‐ zation for Strapdown Inertial Navigation System Algorithm," "On Six DOF Relative Orbital Motion of Satellites," "Consensus-Based Attitude Manoeuver of Multi-spacecraft with Exclu‐ sion Constraints," and "Mars Network-Based Navigation: Observability and Optimization." The next section is dedicated to "Spacecraft Propulsion." It consists of the following chap‐ ters: "Long-Life Technology for Space Flight Hall Thrusters" and "Low-Thrust Control

Section 5 is presenting the recent progress achieved in the area of "Suborbital Flight." It con‐ tains the following research contributions: "Suborbital Flight: An Affordable and Feasible Option for Mexican Aerospace Development" and "Cost-Effective Platforms for Near-Space

The last section of the book is titled "Deep-Space Flight." It is dedicated to the most impres‐ sive space mission with planetary probes the humanity has ever seen, namely, the **Cassini-Huygens Deep-Space Mission** by JPL (NASA). The title of the research contribution is "Cassini Spacecraft-DSN Communications, Handling Anomalous Link Conditions, and

We hope that the readers will enjoy reading this book and be inspired to scientifically con‐

**Prof. George Dekoulis**

Cyprus

Aerospace Engineering Institute (AEI)

Head of Aeronautical and Space Engineering Department

Navigation," "Spacecraft Propulsion," "Suborbital Flight," and "Deep-Space Flight."

tion: "Space Thermal and Vacuum Environment Simulation."

tribute to the further success of the global space community.

#### **Section 4 Spacecraft Propulsion 145**


#### **Section 5 Suborbital Flight 183**

