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Opportunistic Navigation with Doppler Measurements from Iridium Next and Orbcomm LEO Satellites by Orabi, Mohamad, Khalife, Joe, Kassas, Zaher M.

“…A framework for opportunistic navigation with multi-constellation low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite signals is proposed. A receiver architecture suitable for…”
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Blind Doppler Tracking and Beacon Detection for Opportunistic Navigation with LEO Satellite Signals by Neinavaie, Mohammad, Khalife, Joe, Kassas, Zaher M.

“…A Doppler tracking and beacon detection framework for blind opportunistic navigation (BON) with low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite signals is proposed. The BON…”
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Assessing Machine Learning for LEO Satellite Orbit Determination in Simultaneous Tracking and Navigation by Mortlock, Trier, Kassas, Zaher M.

“…Machine learning for orbit determination of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites in a simultaneous tracking and navigation (STAN) framework is assessed. STAN is a…”
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Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis of Aerospace Systems Using Growing Recurrent Neural Networks and LSTM by ElDali, Musab, Kumar, Krishna Dev

“…Due to the increase in complexity in aerospace systems, developing a diagnosis, prognosis, and health monitoring (DPHM) framework is a challenge that must be…”
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Control and Trajectory Optimization for Soft Aerial Manipulation by Fishman, Joshua, Carlone, Luca

“…Manipulation and grasping with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) currently require accurate positioning and are often executed at reduced speed to ensure…”
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Description of the Mass Spectrometer for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission by Fohn, Martina, Galli, Andre, Vorburger, Audrey, Tulej, Marek, Lasi, Davide, Riedo, Andreas, Fausch, Rico G., Althaus, Michael, Brungger, Stefan, Fahrer, Philipp, Gerber, Michael, Luthi, Matthias, Munz, Hans Peter, Oeschger, Severin, Piazza, Daniele, Wurz, Peter

“…The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) of the European Space Agency (ESA) will investigate Jupiter and its icy moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, with the…”
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Machine Learning Based Path Planning for Improved Rover Navigation by Abcouwer, Neil, Daftry, Shreyansh, del Sesto, Tyler, Toupet, Olivier, Ono, Masahiro, Venkatraman, Siddarth, Lanka, Ravi, Song, Jialin, Yue, Yisong

“…Enhanced AutoNav (ENav), the baseline surface navigation software for NASA's Perseverance rover, sorts a list of candidate paths for the rover to traverse,…”
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Space Object Tracking Uncertainty Analysis with the URREF Ontology by Blasch, Erik, Shen, Dan, Chen, Genshe, Sheaff, Carolyn, Pham, Khanh

“…Accurate and rapid space object behavioral tracking enables space protection and space domain awareness (SDA). Recent methods of artificial intelligence and…”
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UAV and AI Application for Runway Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Detection by Papadopoulos, Ellena, Gonzalez, Felipe

“…There are several ways in which Foreign Object Debris (FOD) are detected on runways. Some of these methods include Radar, infrared technologies, and stationary…”
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CORALS: A Laser Desorption/Ablation Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer for In Situ Exploration of Europa by Willhite, Lori, Ni, Ziqin, Arevalo, Ricardo, Bardyn, Anais, Gundersen, Cynthia, Minasola, Niko, Southard, Adrian, Briois, Christelle, Thirkell, Laurent, Colin, Fabrice, Grubisic, Andrej, Fahey, Molly, Yu, Anthony, Hernandez, Emanuel, Ersahin, Akif, Danell, Ryan, Makarov, Alexander

“…Europa is a high-priority astrobiology target due to the presence of liquid water, carbon-rich materials, and energy sources that may support complex chemistry…”
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Advanced Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) with Infrared (IR) Sensors by Chen, Hai- Wen, Gross, Neal, Kapadia, Ravi, Cheah, Joseph, Gharbieh, Mo

“…Automatic Target Detection (ATD) and Recognition (ATR) are critical for video analysis and image understanding for many military and commercial applications…”
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Desensitized Trajectory Optimization for Hypersonic Vehicles by Makkapati, Venkata Ramana, Ridderhof, Jack, Tsiotras, Panagiotis, Hart, Joseph, van Bloemen Waanders, Bart

“…This paper addresses trajectory optimization for hypersonic vehicles under atmospheric and aerodynamic uncertainties using techniques from desensitized optimal…”
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Conceptual Design of the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) on the Far Side of the Moon by Bandyopadhyay, Saptarshi, Mcgarey, Patrick, Goel, Ashish, Rafizadeh, Ramin, Delapierre, Melanie, Arya, Manan, Lazio, Joseph, Goldsmith, Paul, Chahat, Nacer, Stoica, Adrian, Quadrelli, Marco, Nesnas, Issa, Jenks, Kenneth, Hallinan, Gregg

“…An ultra-long-wavelength radio telescope on the far side of the Moon has significant advantages compared to Earth-based and Earth-orbiting telescopes,…”
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Design Trade-Off Analysis of Precoding Multi-Beam Satellite Communication Systems by Guidotti, Alessandro, Vanelli-Coralli, Alessandro

“…To cope with the ever increasing demand for larger throughput, Satellite Communications (SatCom) systems are evolving towards Very High Throughput Satellites…”
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Extended Exposure of Gallium Nitride Heterostructure Devices to a Simulated Venus Environment by Eisner, Savannah R., Alpert, Hannah S., Chapin, Caitlin A., Yalamarthy, Ananth Saran, Satterthwaite, Peter F., Nasiri, Ardalan, Port, Sara, Ang, Simon, Senesky, Debbie G.

“…Further development of harsh environment electronics capable of uncooled operation under Venus surface atmospheric conditions (~460°C, ~92 bar, corrosive)…”
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Multimodal Data Fusion Using Canonical Variates Analysis Confusion Matrix Fusion by Blasch, Erik, Vakil, Asad, Li, Jia, Ewing, Robert

“…Data fusion from a variety of sources requires alignment, association, and analysis. One method to determine the relationship between two variables measuring…”
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Predictive XR Telepresence for Robotic Operations in Space by McHenry, Neil, Spencer, Jason, Zhong, Patrick, Cox, Jeremy, Amiscaray, Michael, Wong, K.C., Chamitoff, Gregory

“…This paper proposes a new method for robotic teleoperation scenarios with significant time delay utilizing Extended Reality (XR) technologies, specifically for…”
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Machine Learning vs. Human Performance in the Realtime Acoustic Detection of Drones by Alaparthy, Vishwa, Mandal, Sayan, Cummings, Mary

“…Usage of drones has increased substantially in both recreation and commercial applications and is projected to proliferate in the near future. As this demand…”
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Natural Motion-based Trajectories for Automatic Spacecraft Collision Avoidance During Proximity Operations by Mote, Mark L., Hays, Christopher W., Collins, Alexander, Feron, Eric, Hobbs, Kerianne L.

“…Autonomous rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking are key enablers of missions such as satellite servicing, active debris removal, and in-space…”
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A Charge Management System for Gravitational Reference Sensors - Design and Instrument Testing by Kenyon, Samantha Parry, Letson, Ben, Clark, Myles, Olatunde, Taiwo, Ritten, Logan, Schindler, Julia, Wass, Peter J., Conklin, John W., Barke, Simon, Mueller, Guido, Sumner, Timothy J.

“…Gravitational reference sensors (GRSs) are imperative to Earth geodesy missions and gravitational wave observations in space. A typical GRS consists of a test…”
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