The journal Acta Astronautica for Sep 2025 (vol. 234) has: Hosonuma, T. Miyabara, T. Ozaki, N. et al. Autonomous optical navigation for DESTINY*: Enhancing misalignment robustness in flyby observations with a rotating… Pgs. 117 .2025.04.023Li, Y-H. Lien, W-C. Liu, S-W. Development… Read More »Note, Paper: Whip, Slip, and Flip
Now for the annual Smallsat Conference (smallsat.org), hosted as always by Utah State University, August 11-13. See the overview: https://smallsat.org/conference/schedule/ https://smallsat.org/conference/keynote/https://smallsat.org/conference/flash-talks/https://smallsat.org/conference/posters/ In case you don’t see the connection: Hera is currently flying with the Milani and Juventas 6U CubeSats, to… Read More »Smallsat meeting, 2025
In Acta Astronautica for July (vol. 232): Kuppa, K. McMahon, J. W. Dietrich, A. B. Autonomous shape modeling of small bodies using infrared image silhouettes P. 215 .2025.03.005Iwakawa, A. Mizojiri, S. Hall-effect thruster system of fully water propellant with microwave… Read More »Note, Paper: Acta Now
Let’s check on Journal of Propulsion and Power for May (vol. 41 #3): Ezuka, F. Koizumi, H. Nakano, M. et al. Effect of Nonuniform Plasma on Grid Erosion of the Water Ion Thruster pp. 313 1.B39004Kim, J. W. Bhosale, V.… Read More »Note, Paper: Green Steam
Good Acta Astronautica, Volume 229, April: Fantino, E. Flores, R. Donnarumma, G. et al. Direct low-energy trajectories to Near-Earth Objects Page 333 Kakavand, M. Zhu, Z. H. Geometric mechanics framework for tethered de-spinning of massive asteroids by small tug using passivity-based… Read More »Note, Paper: Activities Astronautica
Good Acta Astronautica for March (vol. 228): Ge, D. Shen, X. Liang, Z. et al. Efficient selection of asteroid landing sites using composite guidance vectors Page 121 .11.055Yang, Y. Zhou, S. Yuan, S. et al. Optimization design and mechanism study… Read More »Note, Paper: Gas Up… or Ast Up?
This month’s Acta Astronautica (vol. 227, February) is propulsion-relevant: Deng, H. Sun, Y. Cheng, L. et al Study on the current stability and performances of electrospray thruster by coaxial capillary emitters of hybrid highly conductive ionic liquids P 1 .2024.11.049Moriai, I.… Read More »Note, Paper: Acta Thrustronautica
Oops, forgot there was a mid-month Advances in Space Research. For Jan 15 (vol. 75 #2): de Almeida, A. K. Vaillant, T. Santos, L. B. T. et al. Low-thrust transfer with Theory of Functional Connections: Application to 243 Ida with… Read More »Note, Paper: Advances in Sail Res
The first January issue of Acta Astronautica (vol. 226 part 1) is a good one. Here’s some light reading for your holiday: Iwry, J. Collective action problems in planetary defense p. 25 .05.029Wang, Y. Guan, W. Hu, J. High-fidelity landing… Read More »Note, Paper: Act Fast
Good, broad coverage in November’s issue of Acta Astronautica (vol. 224): Shcheglov, G. A. Modovskii, A. V. Design optimization of cubic-shaped pressurant tank for CubeSat pr… p. 48 .07.037 Freeman, A. Fesq, L. Matousek, S. IAA-PDC-23-09-20 low-cost mission architectures to… Read More »Note, Paper: Acta Asteroi-nautica