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Dr NISHANTH PUSHPARAJ's Outputs (14)

Use of the Earth-Moon Lagrange Points for Improving Lunar Navigation Performance (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cormier, L., Pushparaj, N., Blunt, P., & Cappelletti, C. (2025, January). Use of the Earth-Moon Lagrange Points for Improving Lunar Navigation Performance. Presented at 7ᵗʰ Winter Satellite Workshop with Remote Sensing Days and Space Science Workshop, Espoo Dipoli, Finland

Teleoperated Astropharmaceutical Payload for Long-Duration Space Missions: Project VITA! (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Izcan, S., Tsinidis, M., Pushparaj, N., Williams, P., & Cappelletti, C. (2024, October). Teleoperated Astropharmaceutical Payload for Long-Duration Space Missions: Project VITA!. Presented at 75th International Astronautical Congress, Milan, Italy

The VITA (Visualizing In-space Tx-Tl Astropharmaceuticals) mission is a teleoperated Astropharmaceutical cube-payload that will launch a biological experiment to the ICE Cubes Facility (ICF) on board the International Space Station (ISS) as a selecte... Read More about Teleoperated Astropharmaceutical Payload for Long-Duration Space Missions: Project VITA!.

Alternative Orbits for Improving Lunar Navigation Services (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cormier, L., Arcia, A., Pushparaj, N., Blunt, P., & Cappelletti, C. (2024, October). Alternative Orbits for Improving Lunar Navigation Services. Presented at 75th International Astronautical Congress, Milan, Italy

With the renewed interest in missions to the Moon, key technologies are required to ensure the success of these missions. In particular, the demand for reliable, accurate positioning and navigation services will be fundamental for the successful outc... Read More about Alternative Orbits for Improving Lunar Navigation Services.

CubeSats for Contrail Monitoring and Environmental Impact Reduction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pushparaj, N., Cormier, L., Cappelletti, C., & Portapas, V. (2024, October). CubeSats for Contrail Monitoring and Environmental Impact Reduction. Presented at 75th International Astronautical Congress, Milan, Italy

Contrails, or condensation trails, are cloud-like trails left by aircraft under certain atmospheric conditions. They are known to exacerbate global warming by trapping heat in the Earth’s atmosphere. Despite the significant role of contrails in clima... Read More about CubeSats for Contrail Monitoring and Environmental Impact Reduction.

Roles, effects, and ramifications of in-person interactions in a digital team (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bonfitto, F., Fayon, G., Gallucci, A., Iorga, M. B., Nigro, F., Pushparaj, N., Alqattan, Y., Sadhukhan, D., Rümmler, L., & Soulard, N. (2024, October). Roles, effects, and ramifications of in-person interactions in a digital team. Presented at 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2024), Milan, Italy

The democratisation of Agile and SAFe development approach in the IT sector following the social web deployment in the second half of the 2000’s led in parallel to the emergence of the digital transformation concept. In order to ease the collaboratio... Read More about Roles, effects, and ramifications of in-person interactions in a digital team.

Use of stable Lagrange points for improving Lunar GNSS (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cormier, L., Pushparaj, N., Blunt, P., & Cappelletti, C. (2024, July). Use of stable Lagrange points for improving Lunar GNSS. Presented at 34th Workshop on JAXA Astrodynamics Symposium and Flight Mechanics, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS), Sagamihara, Kanagawa Japan and online

Breaking the Cycle: Novel Capture Mechanisms for Active Space Debris Removal (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taggart, A., Harris, J., Pushparaj, N., & Cappelletti, C. (2023, October). Breaking the Cycle: Novel Capture Mechanisms for Active Space Debris Removal. Presented at 74th International Astronautical Congress. Symposium A6. 21st IAA SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE DEBRIS, Baku, Azerbaijan

Since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, over 6000 rockets and more than 11,300 satellites have been launched into space, resulting in a high number of artificial space debris in orbit around Earth. Of this debris, there are over one million objects be... Read More about Breaking the Cycle: Novel Capture Mechanisms for Active Space Debris Removal.

Frequent Deep-Space Access Strategy for Venus Aeronomic Exploration Mission using Earth-Synchronous Orbits (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ito, D., Pushparaj, N., & Kawakatsu, Y. (2023, October). Frequent Deep-Space Access Strategy for Venus Aeronomic Exploration Mission using Earth-Synchronous Orbits. Presented at 74th International Astronautical Congress. Symposium B4. 30th IAA SYMPOSIUM ON SMALL SATELLITE MISSIONS, Baku, Azerbaijan

Geostationary transfer orbits (GTO) are earth-centric orbits widely used for kick-stage operations of satellites for deep space exploration missions. A rideshare spacecraft parked or deployed in GTOs usually requires minimal transfer cost compared to... Read More about Frequent Deep-Space Access Strategy for Venus Aeronomic Exploration Mission using Earth-Synchronous Orbits.

Quasi-solar Synchronous Orbit around the Moon based on Spatial Distant Retrograde Orbits (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peng, L., Liang, Y., Pushparaj, N., & Shi, P. (2023, October). Quasi-solar Synchronous Orbit around the Moon based on Spatial Distant Retrograde Orbits. Presented at 74th International Astronautical Congress. Symposium A5. 26th IAA SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN EXPLORATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, Baku, Azerbaijan

The last several decades have witnessed the rapid development of lunar exploration, promoting researches on various types of lunar orbits including Distant Retrograde Orbits (abbr. DRO) that are feasible for orbiting tasks due to their stability. Man... Read More about Quasi-solar Synchronous Orbit around the Moon based on Spatial Distant Retrograde Orbits.

Optimal Transfer Trajectories between Relative Quasi-Satellite Orbits (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pushparaj, N., Hiraiwa, N., & Bando, M. (2023, October). Optimal Transfer Trajectories between Relative Quasi-Satellite Orbits. Presented at 74th International Astronautical Congress, Baku, Azerbaijan

In recent years, there has been growing interest in space exploration, particularly in exploring the Martian system. The moons Phobos and Deimos of Mars may hold the key to understanding how the Solar system formed. As a result, space agencies like N... Read More about Optimal Transfer Trajectories between Relative Quasi-Satellite Orbits.

Stabilization of Spacecraft in Spatial Periodic Orbits using Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pushparaj, N., Hayashi, Y., & Bando, M. (2023, June). Stabilization of Spacecraft in Spatial Periodic Orbits using Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR). Paper presented at 34th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science & 12th Nano-Satellite Symposium, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

Mission design for exploring minor celestial bodies and planetary satellites presents significant technical challenges, particularly in highly perturbed dynamical environments. The weak and complex gravitational fields of small bodies, along with per... Read More about Stabilization of Spacecraft in Spatial Periodic Orbits using Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR).

Do Look Up: A young generation's perspective on Planetary Defense (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gloder, A., Cader, S., Austen, E., Choudhary, M., Garcia-Bonilla, J., Vizireanu, A., Hameed, H., Rojas Ramirez, M. E., Pushparaj, N., & Sarli, B. (2022, September). Do Look Up: A young generation's perspective on Planetary Defense. Presented at 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Paris, France

One aspect of human behaviour that recent events have shown is people's lack of response to seemingly distant or unlikely situations. Nonetheless, this action, or absence of action, results in inadequate planning and policies to deal with high-impact... Read More about Do Look Up: A young generation's perspective on Planetary Defense.