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Trajectory Optimization for Orbit Transfers: Principles, Advances, Case Studies, and Outlook

  • Katherine Vasiloff,
  • Israel Adesina,
  • Zhenbo Wang,
  • Kshitij Mall and
  • Daniel A. DeLaurentis
Aerospace2025, 12(12), 1087;https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace12121087 
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6 December 2025

This review presents an in-depth exploration of trajectory optimization techniques for various orbit transfer applications, focusing on principles, methodologies, and practical case studies. The emphasis is placed on indirect, direct, and data-driven...

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4 December 2025

Accurate and efficient data-driven prediction of embedded airborne load separation trajectories and attitudes can not only significantly improve the safety of the separation process but also substantially reduce reliance on costly aerodynamic simulat...

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Conceptual Design of a Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Based on a Dornier 328 Demonstrator

  • Annika Nora Staats,
  • Florian Troeltsch and
  • Andreas Bardenhagen

4 December 2025

Air travel contributed 3.5% to global warming in 2020, with a rising tendency. Only one third of the climate impact is caused by CO2. Other exhaust gases that cause harm to the climate are nitrogen oxides, soot, and water vapor, creating contrails wi...

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4 December 2025

In recent years, with the rapid expansion of low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations, the orbital decay of LEO satellites caused by atmospheric heating from solar irradiance and geomagnetic activity has become increasingly prominent. Accuratel...

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4 December 2025

When fusing inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) images and high-resolution range profile (HRRP), the significant heterogeneity existing between the feature spaces of the two is not adequately considered, resulting in a low accuracy rate of space...

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Pre-Tensioned Flexible Skins for Large-Folding-Ratio UAV Wings: Theory and Tests

  • Guang Yang,
  • Lunjiang Zhao,
  • Yuqi Li,
  • Hong Xiao and
  • Hongwei Guo

4 December 2025

This paper proposes a hybrid rigid–flexible wing design that enables large-area folding and reconfiguration. Based on elasticity theory and fabric constitutive equations, a surface-outward mechanical model incorporating mesoscale weave structur...

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Enhanced Evaluation Model on Emergency Response Effectiveness at Civil Airports: A Theoretical and Empirical Study

  • Hao Sun,
  • Pei Zhu,
  • Jiahe Miao,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Lizhi Fang,
  • Hongxia Dou and
  • Wenfei Yu

4 December 2025

The Civil Aviation Administration of China mandates comprehensive evaluations of emergency response effectiveness. However, existing studies predominantly focus on evaluating response capabilities rather than actual effectiveness. This leads to evalu...

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A Spatio-Temporally Cooperative Guidance Law for Highly Maneuverable Target

  • Jia Liu,
  • Yang Guo,
  • Shaobo Wang,
  • Shiyuan Zhang,
  • Jimao Sang and
  • Chengyi Zhang

4 December 2025

Conventional guidance laws often exhibit difficulty in approaching highly maneuverable targets and suffer from poor robustness. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a spatio-temporally consistent cooperative guidance method based on the...

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Benefits from Thin-Ply Composite Materials in Aircraft Wing Structures

  • Lennart Lobitz,
  • Christian Bülow,
  • Sebastian Heimbs and
  • Peter Horst

3 December 2025

Previous research shows that thin-ply composite materials offer superior static and fatigue characteristics to standard laminates used in aviation. Therefore, they are expected to be capable of significantly contributing to a mass reduction needed to...

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