José Rodríguez-Canabal's scientific contributions

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A number of interplanetary low-thrust missions have already been flown by many space agencies. Examples of already flown missions based on the use of electric propulsion are Deep Space 1, Hayabusa and SMART-1. Many others are already in the assessment phase or in the development phase itself. In such perspective, it is required by the space agencie...
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Several European space missions, whose launch and operational life is envisaged for the next decades, base the achievement of their mission objectives on successful design, coordination and control of the relative motion of a set of SC, ranging from two, as in the case of an Automated Mars Rendezvous (ARV), for instance; to a higher number for Sate...
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There is a growing interest in Europe for Solar System exploration, as presented in the Industrial Study on Systems Concepts, Architectures and Technologies for Space Exploration and Utilisation (SE&U) conducted in 1999, and the recently proposed Aurora programme, with the objective to formulate and implement an European long-term plan for robotic...
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This paper treats the transfer of a satellites formation to the collinear Libration points of the Sun-Earth/Moon system. The focus is set on relative dynamics and GNC issues (motion of the satellites with respect to the any of the other satellites in the formation), analysed taking as a reference an optimised transfer trajectory to the L2 Libration...

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... These librations points (or Lagrange points) have the property of being at rest with respect to a pair of primaries, which makes them particularly appealing for a number of space applications. More specifically, LPOs around the collinear libration points L 1 and L 2 (Szebehely and Williams, 1964) present very well-known advantages in terms of thermal stability, observation and communication geometries stability, and minimum level of required budget for on-orbit maintenance maneuvers (Bastante et al., 2003). For these reasons, the number of LPO missions around these two points has increased over the last 15 years and a further growth is expected within next years. ...
... The main objective of the Low-Thrust Interplanetary Navigation Tool (LOTNAV) developed for ESA [2] is the support to the Mission Analyst in the performance of navigation and guidance studies over low-thrust trajectories. As a secondary goal, the tool allows the generation of high fidelity low-thrust trajectories by constrained non-linear optimisation. ...