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  1. Robust NMPC strategy for solar sail trajectory control in uncertain environments

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, October 2025, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  2. Solar Sail Trajectory Design With Pulsed Radial Thrust

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, April 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Giovanni Mengali

  3. Robust solar sail trajectories using proximal policy optimization

    Article • Acta Astronautica, January 2025, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  4. Solar Sail Transfers under Uncertainties: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

    Article • Space Science & Technology, January 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Giovanni Mengali

  5. Decay time estimate for LEO spacecraft

    Article • Acta Astronautica, December 2024, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  6. Drag sail attitude tracking via nonlinear control

    Article • Acta Astronautica, December 2024, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  7. Deterministic Trajectory Design and Attitude Maneuvers of Gradient-Index Solar Sail in Interplanetary Transfers

    Article • Applied Sciences, November 2024, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  8. Analytical Tool for Thrust Vector Description of a Web-Shaped E-Sail

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, October 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Giovanni Mengali

  9. Spacecraft Relative Motion Control Near an Asteroid With Uncertainties: A Lyapunov Redesign Approach

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, August 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Giovanni Mengali

  10. Trajectory Approximation of a Low-Performance E-Sail with Fixed Orientation

    Article • Aerospace, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  11. Solar Sail Optimal Performance in Heliocentric Nodal Flyby Missions

    Article • Aerospace, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  12. FEM-based eigenstructure recovery of a space truss with active members

    Article • The Aeronautical Journal, April 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Giovanni Mengali

  13. Optimal Trajectories of Diffractive Sail to Highly Inclined Heliocentric Orbits

    Article • Applied Sciences, March 2024, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  14. Electric Sail Test Cube–Lunar Nanospacecraft, ESTCube-LuNa: Solar Wind Propulsion Demonstration Mission Concept

    Article • Aerospace, March 2024, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  15. Optimal guidance laws for diffractive solar sails with Littrow transmission grating

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, February 2024, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  16. Performance Estimate of a Spin-Stabilized Drag Sail for Spacecraft Deorbiting

    Article • Applied Sciences, January 2024, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  17. Diffractive Sail-Based Displaced Orbits for High-Latitude Environment Monitoring

    Article • Remote Sensing, December 2023, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  18. A Sliding Mode Control-Based Guidance Law for a Two-Dimensional Orbit Transfer with Bounded Disturbances

    Article • Actuators, November 2023, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  19. Rapid Orbit-to-Orbit Transfer to Asteroid 4660 Nereus Using Solar Electric Propulsion

    Article • Universe, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  20. Circular Orbit Flip Trajectories Generated by E-Sail

    Article • Applied Sciences, September 2023, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  21. Electric Sail Mission Expeditor, ESME: Software Architecture and Initial ESTCube Lunar Cubesat E-Sail Experiment Design

    Article • Aerospace, August 2023, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  22. Solar Sail Orbit Raising with Electro-Optically Controlled Diffractive Film

    Article • Applied Sciences, June 2023, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  23. Solar Sail Trajectories to Earth’s Trojan Asteroids

    Article • Universe, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  24. Trajectory Analysis of a Zero-Pitch-Angle E-Sail with Homotopy Perturbation Technique

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, April 2023, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  25. E-Sail Option for Plunging a Spacecraft into the Sun’s Atmosphere

    Article • Aerospace, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  26. Optimal Interplanetary Transfer of Solar Wind Ion Focusing Thruster-Based Spacecraft

    Article • Applied Sciences, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  27. E-Sail Optimal Trajectories to Heliostationary Points

    Article • Aerospace, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  28. Along-Track Boundedness Condition for Spacecraft Relative Motion Around a Slowly Rotating Asteroid

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, February 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Giovanni Mengali

  29. Refined MagSail thrust model for preliminary mission design and trajectory optimization

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, February 2023, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  30. Structural response of Helianthus solar sail during attitude maneuvers

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, February 2023, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  31. Optimal Earth Gravity-Assist Maneuvers with an Electric Solar Wind Sail

    Article • Aerospace, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  32. Trajectory Approximation of a Coulomb Drag-Based Deorbiting

    Article • Aerospace, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  33. Nonlinear dynamics of flexible heliogyro subject to sinusoidal root pitch command

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, November 2022, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  34. Optimal Circle-to-Ellipse Orbit Transfer for Sun-Facing E-Sail

    Article • Aerospace, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  35. Rapid Evaluation of the Decay Time of a Plasma Brake-Based CubeSat

    Article • Aerospace, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  36. Optimal On-Orbit Inspection of Satellite Formation

    Article • Remote Sensing, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  37. Sliding mode control for attitude maneuvers of Helianthus solar sail

    Article • Acta Astronautica, September 2022, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  38. Solar sail optimal maneuvers for heliocentric orbit apse line rotation

    Article • Acta Astronautica, September 2022, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  39. Trajectory Approximation of a Solar Sail With Constant Pitch Angle and Optical Degradation

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, August 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Giovanni Mengali

  40. Trajectory Analysis and Optimization of Hesperides Mission

    Article • Universe, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Giovanni Mengali

  41. Approximate solution of spacecraft motion with an inward constant radial acceleration

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, January 2022, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  42. Solar Sail Augmented Hohmann Transfer

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Giovanni Mengali

  43. Collinear artificial equilibrium point maintenance with a wrinkled solar sail

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, December 2021, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  44. Optimal heliocentric transfers of a Sun-facing heliogyro

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, December 2021, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  45. Generalized sail trajectory approximation with applications to MagSails

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, November 2021, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  46. Solar sail heliocentric transfers with a Q-law

    Article • Acta Astronautica, November 2021, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  47. Trajectory approximation of a passively actuated solar balloon in near-Earth mission scenarios

    Article • Acta Astronautica, November 2021, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  48. Artificial Collinear Lagrangian Point Maintenance With Electric Solar Wind Sail

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, December 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Giovanni Mengali

  49. Shape-based approach for solar sail trajectory optimization

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, December 2020, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  50. Solar Sail Optimal Transfer Between Heliostationary Points

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, October 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  51. Role of Solar Irradiance Fluctuations on Optimal Solar Sail Trajectories

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, September 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  52. Trajectory Analysis of a Sun-Facing Solar Sail with Optical Degradation

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, September 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Vittorio Cipolla, Giovanni Mengali

  53. Asteroid Hovering Missions from a Fuel-Consumption Viewpoint

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, July 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  54. Smart dust option for geomagnetic tail exploration

    Article • Astrodynamics, August 2019, Tsinghua University Press

    Giovanni Mengali

  55. Optimal solar sail transfers to circular Earth-synchronous displaced orbits

    Article • Astrodynamics, August 2019, Tsinghua University Press

    Giovanni Mengali

  56. Electric sail trajectory design with Bezier curve-based shaping approach

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, May 2019, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  57. Comparison between direct and indirect approach to solar sail circle-to-circle orbit raising optimization

    Article • Astrodynamics, April 2019, Tsinghua University Press

    Giovanni Mengali

  58. A review of Smart Dust architecture, dynamics, and mission applications

    Article • Progress in Aerospace Sciences, April 2019, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  59. Stability and Control of Spinning Electric Solar Wind Sail in Heliostationary Orbit

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, February 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  60. Elliptic Displaced Orbit Approximation with Equally Spaced Impulses

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, February 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  61. Simple solution to optimal cotangential transfer between coplanar elliptic orbits

    Article • Acta Astronautica, February 2019, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  62. Optimal circle-to-rectilinear orbit transfer with circumferential thrust

    Article • Astrodynamics, December 2018, Tsinghua University Press

    Giovanni Mengali

  63. Impact of solar wind fluctuations on Electric Sail mission design

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, November 2018, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  64. Orbital Motion Approximation with Constant Circumferential Acceleration

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, August 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  65. Thrust and torque vector characteristics of axially-symmetric E-sail

    Article • Acta Astronautica, May 2018, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  66. Relative Motion of Sun-Pointing Smart Dust in Circular Heliocentric Orbits

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, April 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  67. Finite element analysis of solar sail force model with mission application

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Giovanni Mengali

  68. Electric Sail Thrust Model from a Geometrical Perspective

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali, Mingying Huo

  69. Plasma brake model for preliminary mission analysis

    Article • Acta Astronautica, March 2018, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  70. Optimal in-orbit repositioning of Sun-pointing Smart Dust

    Article • Acta Astronautica, March 2018, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  71. Thermal-structural analysis of a square solar sail

    Article • Acta Astronautica, March 2018, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  72. Multiple solar sail formation flying around heliocentric displaced orbit via consensus

    Article • Acta Astronautica, March 2018, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  73. Distributed adaptive synchronization for multiple spacecraft formation flying around Lagrange point orbits

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, March 2018, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  74. Accurate approximation of in-ecliptic trajectories for E-sail with constant pitch angle

    Article • Advances in Space Research, March 2018, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  75. Logarithmic spiral trajectories generated by Solar sails

    Article • Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Giovanni Mengali

  76. Two-dimensional heliocentric dynamics approximation of an electric sail with fixed attitude

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, December 2017, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  77. Locally-optimal electric sail transfer

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Giovanni Mengali

  78. Electric sail elliptic displaced orbits with advanced thrust model

    Article • Acta Astronautica, September 2017, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  79. Solar sail trajectory analysis with asymptotic expansion method

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, September 2017, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  80. Formation flying for electric sails in displaced orbits. Part II: Distributed coordinated control

    Article • Advances in Space Research, September 2017, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  81. Formation flying for electric sails in displaced orbits. Part I: Geometrical analysis

    Article • Advances in Space Research, September 2017, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  82. Analytical solution of the optimal steering law for non-ideal solar sail

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, March 2017, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  83. Electric sail-based displaced orbits with a refined thrust model

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering, November 2016, SAGE Publications

    Giovanni Mengali

  84. Analysis of relative motion in non-Keplerian orbits via modified equinoctial elements

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, November 2016, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  85. Heliocentric phasing performance of electric sail spacecraft

    Article • Acta Astronautica, October 2016, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  86. Electric sail option for cometary rendezvous

    Article • Acta Astronautica, October 2016, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  87. Solar sail structural analysis via improved finite element modeling

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering, August 2016, SAGE Publications

    Giovanni Mengali

  88. Minimum-time trajectories of electric sail with advanced thrust model

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, August 2016, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  89. Invariant Manifold and Bounds of Relative Motion Between Heliocentric Displaced Orbits

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, August 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  90. Extreme values of relative distances for spacecraft in elliptic displaced orbits

    Article • Advances in Space Research, August 2016, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  91. Optimal planetary rendezvous with an electric sail

    Article • Aircraft Engineering, July 2016, Emerald

    Giovanni Mengali

  92. Analysis of Electric Sail Heliocentric Motion Under Radial Thrust

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, June 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  93. Heliocentric trajectory analysis of Sun-pointing smart dust with electrochromic control

    Article • Advances in Space Research, February 2016, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  94. A solution to detect and avoid conflicts for civil remotely piloted aircraft systems into non-segregated airspaces

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering, January 2016, SAGE Publications

    Giovanni Mengali

  95. Electric solar wind sail optimal transit in the circular restricted three body problem

    Article • Acta Astronautica, November 2015, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  96. Artificial Periodic Orbits Around L1-Type Equilibrium Points for a Generalized Sail

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, September 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  97. Radially accelerated trajectories for variable mass spacecraft

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, June 2015, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  98. Special Orbits for Mercury Observation

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Giovanni Mengali

  99. Low-Thrust Earth-Venus Trajectories

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Giovanni Mengali

  100. Multi-revolution transfer for heliocentric missions with solar electric propulsion

    Article • Advances in Space Research, January 2015, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  101. Analysis of spacecraft motion under constant circumferential propulsive acceleration

    Article • Acta Astronautica, December 2014, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  102. Fast E-sail Uranus entry probe mission

    Article • Planetary and Space Science, December 2014, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  103. Optimal nodal flyby with near-Earth asteroids using electric sail

    Article • Acta Astronautica, November 2014, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  104. Artificial equilibrium points for a solar balloon in the α Centauri system

    Article • Acta Astronautica, November 2014, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  105. Electric Sail for a Near-Earth Asteroid Sample Return Mission: Case 1998 KY26

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Engineering, November 2014, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Giovanni Mengali

  106. Optimal Solar Sail Interplanetary Trajectories with Constant Cone Angle

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Giovanni Mengali

  107. Artificial Equilibrium Points for Electric Sail with Constant Attitude

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, November 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  108. Optimal Solar Sail Phasing Trajectories for Circular Orbit

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, November 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  109. Approximate Solutions to Circle-to-Circle Solar Sail Orbit Transfer

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, November 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  110. Artificial Lagrange Points for Solar Sail with Electrochromic Material Panels

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, September 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  111. Optimal control laws for heliocentric transfers with a magnetic sail

    Article • Acta Astronautica, August 2013, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  112. Trajectory Approximation for Low-Performance Electric Sail with Constant Thrust Angle

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, May 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  113. Electric solar wind sail mass budget model

    Article • Geoscientific Instrumentation Methods and Data Systems, February 2013, Copernicus GmbH

    Giovanni Mengali

  114. Optimal solar sail transfer to linear trajectories

    Article • Acta Astronautica, February 2013, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  115. A graphical approach to electric sail mission design with radial thrust

    Article • Acta Astronautica, February 2013, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  116. Traffic-separation & collision-avoidance strategy to promote civil applications of UAVs

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Mengali

  117. Passive Control Feasibility of Collinear Equilibrium Points with Solar Balloons

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, September 2012, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  118. Artificial equilibrium points for a generalized sail in the elliptic restricted three-body problem

    Article • Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Giovanni Mengali

  119. New Look to the Constant Radial Acceleration Problem

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, May 2012, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  120. Semi-Analytical Method for the Analysis of Solar Sail Heliocentric Orbit Raising

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, January 2012, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  121. H2-reversal trajectory: A new mission application for high-performance solar sails

    Article • Advances in Space Research, December 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Christian Circi, Giovanni Mengali

  122. Artificial equilibrium points for a generalized sail in the circular restricted three-body problem

    Article • Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Giovanni Mengali

  123. Minimum-time space missions with solar electric propulsion

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, July 2011, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  124. Solar Sail Capabilities to Reach Elliptic Rectilinear Orbits

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, May 2011, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  125. Optimal interplanetary rendezvous combining electric sail and high thrust propulsion system

    Article • Acta Astronautica, March 2011, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  126. Analytical results for solar sail optimal missions with modulated radial thrust

    Article • Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Giovanni Mengali

  127. Invited Article: Electric solar wind sail: Toward test missions

    Article • Review of Scientific Instruments, November 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Giovanni Mengali

  128. Linear Systems Approach to Multiple-Impulse Trajectory Analysis via Regularization

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, September 2010, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  129. Electric sail missions to potentially hazardous asteroids

    Article • Acta Astronautica, May 2010, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  130. Electric Sail Mission Analysis for Outer Solar System Exploration

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, May 2010, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  131. Solar sail trajectories with piecewise-constant steering laws

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, December 2009, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  132. Optimal switching strategy for radially accelerated trajectories

    Article • Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Giovanni Mengali

  133. Solar sail missions to Mercury with Venus gravity assist

    Article • Acta Astronautica, August 2009, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  134. Escape from Elliptic Orbit Using Constant Radial Thrust

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, May 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  135. Non-Keplerian orbits for electric sails

    Article • Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Giovanni Mengali

  136. Solar Sail Near-Optimal Circular Transfers with Plane Change

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  137. Practical Systems Design for an Earth-Magnetotail-Monitoring Solar Sail Mission

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, March 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  138. “Galileo Galilei” (GG) a small satellite to test the equivalence principle of Galileo, Newton and Einstein

    Article • Experimental Astronomy, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Jozef C. van der Ha, Giovanni Mengali

  139. Rapid Solar Sail Rendezvous Missions to Asteroid 99942 Apophis

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, January 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  140. In-orbit repositioning of multiple solar sail spacecraft

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, October 2008, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  141. Optimal trade studies of interplanetary electric propulsion missions

    Article • Acta Astronautica, June 2008, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  142. Electric Sail Performance Analysis

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, January 2008, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  143. Tradeoff Performance of Hybrid Low-Thrust Propulsion System

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, November 2007, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  144. Solar-Sail-Based Stopover Cyclers for Cargo Transportation Missions

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, July 2007, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  145. Impact of Optical Degradation on Solar Sail Mission Performance

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, July 2007, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  146. Reply by the Authors to A. D. Guerman and G. Smirnov

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, May 2007, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  147. Optimal Steering Law for the GeoSail Mission

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, May 2007, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  148. Optimal heliostationary missions of high-performance sailcraft

    Article • Acta Astronautica, April 2007, Elsevier

    Giovanni Mengali

  149. Refined Solar Sail Force Model with Mission Application

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2007, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Christian Circi, Giovanni Mengali

  150. Trajectory Design with Hybrid Low-Thrust Propulsion System

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2007, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  151. Minimagnetospheric Plasma Propulsion for Outer Planet Missions

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, September 2006, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  152. Parametric Model and Optimal Control of Solar Sails with Optical Degradation

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, September 2006, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  153. Formation Control Laws for Autonomous Flight Vehicles

    Article • June 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Giovanni Mengali

  154. A hybrid genetic based optimization procedure for aircraft conceptual analysis

    Article • Optimization and Engineering, June 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Giovanni Mengali

  155. Compound Solar Sail with Optical Properties: Models and Performance

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, January 2006, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  156. Optimal Missions with Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, January 2006, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  157. Fuel-Optimal, Power-Limited Rendezvous with Variable Thruster Efficiency

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, November 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  158. Optimal Control Laws for Axially Symmetric Solar Sails

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, November 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  159. Near-Optimal Solar-Sail Orbit-Raising from Low Earth Orbit

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, September 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  160. Potential Solar Sail Degradation Effects on Trajectory and Attitude Control

    Article • August 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  161. Time-Optimal Three-Dimensional Trajectories for Solar Photon Thruster Spacecraft

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, March 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  162. Optimization of Biimpulsive Trajectories in the Earth-Moon Restricted Three-Body System

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  163. Optimal Three-Dimensional Interplanetary Rendezvous Using Non-Ideal Solar Sail

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, January 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  164. Impact of safety requirements on the weight of civil unmanned aerial vehicles

    Article • Aircraft Engineering, December 2004, Emerald

    Giovanni Mengali

  165. Earth Escape by Ideal Sail and Solar-Photon Thrustor Spacecraft

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, November 2004, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  166. Unified Algebraic Approach to Approximation of Lateral-Directional Modes and Departure Criteria

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, July 2004, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  167. Comments on "Literal Approximations to Aircraft Dynamics Modes" and "Consistent Approximations to Aircraft Longitudinal Modes"

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2003, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  168. Role of Eigenvectors in Aircraft Dynamics Optimization

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2003, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  169. Comments on "Literal Approximations to Aircraft Dynamics Modes" and "Consistent Approximations to Aircraft Longitudinal Modes"

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2003, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  170. Probabilistic Approach for Integrated Structural Control Design

    Article • AIAA Journal, September 2000, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  171. Probabilistic Approach to Aircraft Performance Enhancement in Atmospheric Turbulence

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, May 2000, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  172. Ride Quality of Civil Aircraft from a Probabilistic Viewpoint

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2000, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  173. Probabilistic approach for integrated structural control design

    Article • AIAA Journal, January 2000, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  174. An assessment of multiple site damage through a simple statistical model

    Article • April 1999, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  175. Mixed linear-quadratic/eigenstructure strategy for design of stability augmentation systems

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, November 1996, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  176. Simulation of turbulent fluctuations

    Article • AIAA Journal, November 1994, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali

  177. Ride quality improvements by means of numerical optimization techniques

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, September 1994, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Giovanni Mengali