orbit determination

2023 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference

September 12, 2023

As the seasons begin changing we look back on our summer highlights including one of our favorite conferences to share all our great work. If you didn’t have a chance to attend our talks in person at the Summer 2023…

Advanced Space Team Visits NASA Goddard to Share Progress, Future Opportunities

June 20, 2023

Advanced Space CEO Bradley Cheetham and two team members of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE™) team, Alec Forsman, Mission Operations Lead and Ethan Kayser, Mission Design Lead, returned to the place where it all began—NASA…

Advanced Space CEO Bradley Cheetham visits Morehead State University’s Space Science Director and Congressional Staff to Discuss Future

June 1, 2023

Advanced Space’s CEO Bradley Cheetham paid a visit to Morehead State University (MSU) in Kentucky today. Cheetham toured the Space Science Center, along with staff members for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Congressman Hal Rogers. While there, the group…

Proud Partner of IARPA

December 27, 2022

It is a privilege to work with the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). IARPA’s desire to solve hard problems aligns with Advanced Space’s values to use our technical excellence and inexhaustible…

CAPSTONE Countdown – The Team Behind the Scenes

November 13, 2022

The CAPSTONE Countdown is nearly over! We are mere hours from arriving at the Moon, and there would be no mission without the incredible work of the Advanced Space CAPSTONE Mission Operations Team. From orbit determination and navigation to all…

Utilization of Space-Based TDoA and FDoA for Cislunar Orbit Determination

October 18, 2022

Presented at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) 2022 Conference Michael R. Thompson, Matthew D. Popplewell, Bradley Cheetham ABSTRACT This study evaluates the potential observability benefits of space-based passive RF systems compared to other ground-based and space-based observers for…

International Astronautical Congress 2022 Conference Papers

October 13, 2022

Hard to believe IAC 2022 was a few weeks ago and the year is almost over! In case you weren’t one of the lucky attendees to the Paris show, we’ve added our presented papers below for download and review. Neural Networks for…

CAPSTONE Mission: 10 September 2022 Update

September 10, 2022

The CAPSTONE spacecraft was executing a planned trajectory correction maneuver Thursday evening, September 8th. We have since obtained telemetry that confirms the vehicle suffered an anomaly near the end of the planned maneuver and is currently in safe mode. The…

2022 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference

August 3, 2022

A few of our team members are attending the 2022 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference next week in Charlotte, North Carolina. We invite you to listen to their work being presented, some of which demonstrates great collaboration and support from the NASA Gateway Program.…

Another Success with CAPSTONE Lunar Mission

July 27, 2022

Spacecraft remains on target to test navigation technology and lunar operations to support NASA’s Moon missions under Artemis programs It is hard to believe we launched CAPSTONE almost a month ago. We have encountered many variables that have kept this…