Orbital Express program summary and mission overview

By R. Friend. SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2008

224 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/09ee970b0692fb659395416fcd593f5817616e93

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In Aerospace Engineering

1. Angel Flores-Abad
2. Ou Ma
3. Mark R. Cutkosky
4. Oleg A. Yakimenko
5. G. Boyarko
6. Khanh D. Pham
7. Marcello Romano
8. Steve Ulrich

Citations in the corpus

• A review of space robotics technologies for on-orbit servicing (2014, background): “Another DARPA OOS program was the Spacecraft for the Universal Modification of Orbits (SUMO), which was executed by the Naval Research Laboratory.”
• Optimal Rendezvous Trajectories of a Controlled Spacecraft and a Tumbling Object (2011, methodology): “The mission, conducted in 2007, performed several autonomous rendezvous and capture scenarios, including component exchange and propellant transfer events [4,5].”
• A robotic device using gecko-inspired adhesives can grasp and manipulate large objects in microgravity (2017, background): “The current approach to grasping objects in space is to use a gripper or grappling tool that docks to designed features on cooperative targets (10, 11).”