Space Systems Dynamics

On July 16-19, the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) hosted the renowned conference International Workshop on Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying (IWSCFF). Danil Ivanov, Yaroslav Mashtakov, and Sergey Shestakov presented as much as five studies carried out by different people
in our group. Details...

On July 9-10, the IAA Regional Symposium on Space Debris Observations
from Basilicata took place in the CastelGAUSS Observatory located on the
Toppo di Castelgrande mountain (1250 m above the sea level, the province
of Potenza, Italy). The meeting sponsored by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) was jointly organized by the Municipality of Castelgrande
and the GAUSS Srl company. Prof. Ovchinnikov gave a talk on active space debris removal (ASDR) simulation made with two microsatellite mock-ups on
the COSMOS air-bearing test bench. Details...

On June 28, two celebrated astrodynamicists – Prof. Kathleen Howell (Purdue University, USA) and Prof. Daniel Scheeres (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) – visited Keldysh Institute by invitation of Prof. Ovchinnikov. They did not only give lectures but also learned about the ongoing research on similar topics at our institute and visited the Keldysh memorial cabinet. Details...

On June 11-14, the 9th International conference "Recent Advances in Space Technologies" (RAST 2019) was traditionally held in Instanbul, Turkey. Danil Ivanov took part in this conference by giving two talks about the capture of a tumbling target and the underactuated magnetic attitude control. Details...

Congratulations to Yaroslav Mashtakov with getting a PhD degree! On May 14, Yaroslav successfully defended the PhD dissertation On the Use of the Direct Lyapunov Method in Spacecraft Attitude Control Problems.

The first Russian conference on space debris has been jointly arranged by the Institute of Astronomy (INASAN) and the Space Research Institute (IKI). Hosted
by IKI on April 17-19 and named as "Space Debris: Fundamental and Practical Aspects of the Threat," the event attracted much attention from both media and leading experts. Sergey Trofimov has announced the publishing of a handbook on post-mission disposal of small satellites prepared by IAA Study Group 4.23. Details...

From 2nd to 4th of April, the 13th conference "Parallel Computing Technologies 2019" has been held. This year, one of the two largest Russian supercomputing meetings was hosted by Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad). The updated Top50 list of the most powerful supercomputers of CIS has been traditionally released. Details...

We received a new three-year grant from the Russian Science Foundation for the research project named "Spacecraft Dynamics and Navigation in Complex Gravity Fields" – congratulations to all the team members!