Defense Meeting Held for Autonomous Optical Navigation of Interplanetary CubeSats
admin 2023-10-04T05:01:48+00:00On September 12, 2023, Shahram Keshavarzi successfully defended his thesis on "Autonomous Optical Navigation of Interplanetary CubeSats" at K. N. Toosi University of Technology. The thesis, supervised by Dr. Mehran Mirshams and advised by Dr. Alireza Hoseini Arani, presents a general approach for optical tracking and navigation of spacecraft without access to ground-based distance measuring sources. The thesis argues that the recent expansion of CubeSat satellites challenges the traditional paradigm of mission planning for space exploration, which relies on determining the Earth orbit to guide the spacecraft towards the mission objective. With the increase in the total number of spacecraft [...]