On November 13-15, Moscow's RUDN University hosted the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) SciTech Forum including the conferences on space flight mechanics and space structures and materials. Our team has
been represented by four Master students, Anna Okhitina, Tatyana Petrova, Anastasia Tselousova, and Uliana Monakhova. All of them are already either Junior Researchers or Engineers at KIAM. Anastasia Tselousova's talk was about the properties of high-altitude almost circular orbits around the Moon from the perspective of using them for a lunar orbital station.
Anastasia Tselousova, Maksim Shirobokov, and Sergey Trofimov
High-Altitude Near-Circular Orbits for a Lunar Orbital Station
[paper, presentation] Anna Okhitina presented a paper devoted to placing orbit correction thrusters onboard GEO satellites so that the flywheels can be concurrently desaturated.
Anna Okhitina, Yaroslav Mashtakov, and Stepan Tkachev
Distribution of Correction Thrusters Under Delta-V Constraints in Local Horizontal Plane
[paper, presentation] Tatyana Petrova gave a talk about the relative motion control in a formation of two spacecraft with variable-reflectivity solar sails.
Yaroslav Mashtakov, Tatyana Petrova, and Stepan Tkachev
Relative Motion Control of Two Satellites by Changing the Reflective Properties of the Solar Sail Surface
[paper, presentation] The topic of Uliana Monakhova's research is the possibility of using the active magnetic attitude control to keep a LEO formation by leveraging the differential aerodynamic force.
Uliana Monakhova, Danil Ivanov, and Dmitry Roldugin
Magnetorquers Attitude Control for Differential Aerodynamic Force Application to Nanosatellite Formation Flying Construction and Maintenance
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