Dynamics and Control Problems on Asteroid Explorations

Dear Colleagues,

With the booming exploring missions and plans targeting small celestial bodies, significant progress has been made ranging from the technological aspects to the scientific understandings. In order to obtain more scientific data and demonstrate up-to-date technologies, multiple exploring manners could be proposed and adopted, including but not limited to the orbiting, landing, roving, sampling, etc.

To communicate with researchers in the area of asteroid exploration as well as advertise cutting-edge technologies, we look forward to high-qualified contributions covering all aspects of asteroid explorations. The research topics welcome dynamical environment analyses around asteroids, navigation and control over asteroids, landing/roving/sampling dynamics, surface probe design and dynamics, and other dynamics and control works related to asteroid explorations.

Dr. Xiangyuan Zeng
Dr. Fabio Ferrari
Guest Editors

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