Foreword

John L. Junkins, Texas A&M University

Spacecraft Formation Flying: Dynamics, Control and Navigation provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject in a widely accessible fashion. The text fills an important void and the authors have utilized the advantage they enjoy, being among the leaders in researching this subject, to write an authoritative exposition. The result is an up-to-date text that will be broadly useful to academics and professionals in governmental and industrial research. The focus is on spacecraft formations in low Earth orbit, with a detailed discussion of modeling, control, and navigation; with consideration of both translation and attitude relative motions. While this is an integrative sub-field in astrodynamics, ...

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