Space Systems Dynamics

Orbital and attitude dynamics and control

International Astronautical Congress in Bremen






The venue: Exhibition and Conference Center in the heart of Bremen


At the IAC opening ceremony


The ExoMars Rover mock-up
(at 1:1 scale)


The small-scale mock-up of Orion
Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

October 8, 2018

Bremen hosted the 69th International Astronautical Congress. During a week, from 1st to 6th of October, the German city has been attracting the heads of leading space agencies, researchers, and space engineers all over the world. Our team did not stay aside, too. 

Maksim Shirobokov reported about the possibility of lunar landing from near-rectilinear halo orbits.

Sergey Trofimov, Maksim Shirobokov, Anastasia Tselousova, and Mikhail Ovchinnikov
Transfers Between Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits and the Moon
[paperpresentation]

Yaroslav Mashtakov presented a Lyapunov control law for the maneuver of spacecraft reorientation under constraints.

Yaroslav Mashtakov, Stepan Tkachev, and Sergey Shestakov
Lyapunov Control for Attitude Maneuvers with Restricted Areas
[paperpresentation]

Sergey Shestakov proposed the analytical approach to design a tetrahedral formation of low-Earth orbit satellites.

Mikhail Ovchinnikov, Sergey Shestakov, and Yaroslav Mashtakov
Analytical Approach to Construction a Reference Motion for Tetrahedral Satellite Formation
[paper, presentation]

Coupled attitude and relative motion control in a formation of satellites with variable-reflectivity solar sails was discussed in the presentation given by Stepan Tkachev.

Yaroslav Mashtakov, Mikhail Ovchinnikov, Tatyana Petrova, and Stepan Tkachev
Attitude and Relative Motion Control of Satellites in Formation Flying via Solar Sail with Variable Reflectivity Properties
[paperpresentation]

Finally, Danil Ivanov gave two talks. The former was devoted to the use of aerodynamic forces for the nanosatellite formation deployment and keeping. The latter contained the flight data analysis for the TNS-0 #2 mission.

Danil Ivanov, Mikhail Mogilevsky, Uliana Monakhova, Mikhail Ovchinnikov, and Alexander Chernyshov
Deployment and Maintenance of Nanosatellite Tetrahedral Formation Using Aerodynamic Forces
[paperpresentation]

Mikhail Ovchinnikov, Danil Ivanov, Oleg Pansyrnyi, Igor Fedorov, Arnold Selivanov, Oleg Khromov, Nikolay Yudanov, and Artem Sergeev
Flight Results of the Mission of TNS-0 #2 Nanosatellite Connected via Global Communication System
[paperpresentation]


The members of our team with Prof. Hanspeter Schaub (second left)
representing the University of Colorado at Boulder