Publications

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Dissertation

  1. Binz, C.R., "Satellite Cluster Tracking via Extent Estimation," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2019. doi:10.13016/fk2i-xrjl

Journal Articles

  1. Healy, L.M., Binz, C.R., and Kindl, S., "Orbital Dynamic Admittance and Earth Shadow," Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Jan. 2019. doi:10.1007/s40295-018-00144-1

  2. Binz, C.R. and Healy, L., "Direct Uncertainty Estimates from Angles-Only Initial Orbit Determination," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 41, No. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 34--36. doi:10.2514/1.G002227

  3. Binz, C.R., Spencer, D.B., Levin, D.A., and Simpson, T.W. "Designing for the Space Environment via Trade Space Exploration," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 47, No. 6, Nov.--Dec. 2010, pp. 1070--1073. doi:10.2514/1.50916

Conference Papers

  1. Healy, L.M., Kindl, S., Binz, C.R., Englert, C., and Nicholas, A. "Early trajectory estimate of proximate objects with an optical fence". Presented at the 2018 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Snowbird, UT, 2018. Paper AAS 18-381. [pdf]

  2. Healy, L.M., Kindl, S., and Binz, C.R. "Spatial density maps from a fragmentation". Presented at the 7th European Conference on Space Debris, Darmstadt, Germany, 2017. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1411508

  3. Healy, L.M., Kindl, S., and Binz, C.R. "Spatial density maps from a debris cloud". Presented at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference, Maui, HI, 2016. [pdf]

  4. Binz, C.R. and Healy, L.M. "Development of a satellite group tracking method". Presented at the 26th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Napa, CA, 2016. Paper AAS 16-399. [pdf]

  5. Healy, L., Kindl, S., Rolfe, E., and Binz, C. "Structure and evolution of a debris cloud in the early phases". Presented at the 26th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Napa, CA, 2016. Paper 16-430.

  6. Healy, L.M. and Binz, C.R. "Posterior distribution of an orbital ensemble from position-only observations". Presented at the AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Vail, CO, 2015. Paper AAS 15-602.

  7. Binz, C.R. and Healy, L.M. "Centroid dynamics for group object tracking". In Spaceflight Mechanics 2015, volume 155 of Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, San Diego, CA, 2015. Univelt, Inc. Paper AAS 15-365. [pdf]

  8. Healy, L.M., Reich, K., and Binz, C.R. "Density of the built orbital environment from an object catalog". In Spaceflight Mechanics 2015, volume 155 of Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, San Diego, CA, 2015. Univelt, Inc. Paper AAS 15-345.

  9. Binz, C.R., Davis, M.A., Kelm, B.E., and Moore, C.I. "Optical survey of the tumble rates of retired GEO satellites". Presented at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, September 2014. [pdf]

  10. Jenkins, P.P., Bentz, D.C., Barnds, J., Binz, C.R., and 10 others. "TacSat-4 solar cell experiment: two years in orbit". Presented at the 10th European Space Power Conference, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, April 2014.

  11. Binz, C.R. and Healy, L.M. "Utilization of uncertainty information in angles-only initial orbit determination". In Spaceflight Mechanics 2014, volume 152 of Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, San Diego, CA, 2014. Paper AAS 14-431. [pdf]

  12. Healy, L.M. and Binz, C.R. "Orbital density determination from unassociated observations: uninformative prior and initial observation". In Spaceflight Mechanics 2014, volume 152 of Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, San Diego, CA, 2014. Paper AAS 14-347. [pdf]

  13. Binz, C.R. and Healy, L.M. "Uncertainty characterization for angles-only initial orbit determination". In Astrodynamics 2013, volume 149 of Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, San Diego, CA, 2013. Univelt, Inc. Paper AAS 13-822. [pdf]

  14. Healy, L.M. and Binz, C.R. "Bayesian inference on multimodal distributions from an interferometer". In Astrodynamics 2013, volume 149 of Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, San Diego, CA, 2013. Univelt, Inc. Paper AAS 13-828.

  15. Jenkins, P.P., Bentz, D.C., Barnds, J.B., Binz, C.R. and 10 others, "Initial results from the TacSat-4 solar cell experiment". Presented at the 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Tampa, FL, June 16--21, 2013. doi:10.1109/PVSC.2013.6745117

  16. Binz, C.R. and Healy, L.M. "Association of satellite observations using Bayesian inference". In Spaceflight Mechanics 2013, volume 148 of Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, San Diego, CA, 2013. Univelt, Inc. Paper AAS 13-245. [pdf]

  17. Healy, L.M. and Binz, C.R. "Measurement uncertainty in satellite direction finding with an interferometer". In Spaceflight Mechanics 2013, volume 148 of Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, San Diego, CA, 2013. Univelt, Inc. Paper AAS 13-276.

  18. Sabol, C., Binz, C., Segerman, A., Roe, K., and Schumacher, P. "Probability of collision with special perturbations using the Monte Carlo method". In Astrodynamics 2011, volume 142 of Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, San Diego, CA, 2013. Univelt, Inc. Paper AAS 11-435. [pdf]

  19. Roe, K.P., Sabol, C., Segerman, A. and Binz, C. "Probability of Collision using High Performace Computing and the Monte Carlo Method". In Proceedings of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference, pp. 642--648. Portland, OR, June 20--23 2011.