The Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR) is dedicated to the study of astrodynamics and the application of satellites to science, navigation, and remote sensing of the Earth and planets.

When CCAR was founded by Dr. George Born in 1985, its focus was in the traditional astrodynamics fields of navigation and orbit determination. Over the years, the center’s research focus has evolved ...

As space traffic increases and our reliance on satellites grows, the question of how to manage and predict anomalies in orbital astrodynamics becomes ever more critical. The idea that artificial ...

Astrodynamics is the research area concerned with the modeling, analysis, and control of the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space under the influence of gravitational and non-gravitational ...

In February 2009, the commercial communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251. The collision, which was not the first recorded between ...

Dr. Ayoubi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Santa Clara University. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue ...

SPEX Astrodynamics Radio Telescope The RIT Space Exploration clubs radio telescope is our cosmic eavesdropper, tuned to observe the hydrogen line. By capturing the radio waves emitted by hydrogen we ...

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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...