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  1. Trajectory Design and Control for Missed-Thrust Rendezvous

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pini Gurfil

  2. Feedback Control for Directional Rendezvous Using Constant-Magnitude Low Thrust

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, December 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pini Gurfil

  3. Milankovitch–Lyapunov Geostationary Satellite Stationkeeping

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pini Gurfil

  4. Spacecraft Rendezvous Using Constant-Magnitude Low Thrust

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

    Pini Gurfil

  5. Mass-Ejecting Reaction Wheel for CubeSat Small Orbit Corrections

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, August 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pini Gurfil

  6. Lunar Satellite Formation Keeping Using Differential Solar Radiation Pressure

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

    Pini Gurfil, Tao NIE

  7. Long-Term Analytical Boundedness Conditions for Relative Orbits Under Third-Body Perturbations

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

    Pini Gurfil, Tao NIE

  8. Optimization of Satellite Orbits with Resonant Cross-Track Control

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

    Pini Gurfil

  9. Cluster-Keeping Algorithms for the Satellite Swarm Sensor Network Project

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pini Gurfil

  10. Analytical Conditions for Bounded Mean Inter-Satellite Distances in the J2 Problem

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

    Pini Gurfil

  11. Long-Term Orbital Dynamics of Smart Dust

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, January 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pini Gurfil

  12. Hard Disk Drive Based Reaction Wheels for CubeSat Attitude Control

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, January 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pini Gurfil

  13. Deorbiting Timing for Spacecraft in Geostationary Transfer Orbits Exploiting Luni–Solar Perturbations

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, January 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pini Gurfil

  14. In-Orbit Tracking of High Area-to-Mass Ratio Space Objects

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, August 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pini Gurfil

  15. Debris Avoidance Maneuvers for Spacecraft in a Cluster

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Elad Denenberg, Pini Gurfil

  16. Modeling Early Medium-Term Evolution of Debris Clouds Using the Reachable Domain Method

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

    Dr Changxuan Wen, Pini Gurfil

  17. Initial Costates for Low-Thrust Minimum-Time Station Change of Geostationary Satellites

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

    Pini Gurfil

  18. Bayesian Inference of Nongravitational Perturbations from Satellite Observations

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

    Lamberto Dell'Elce, Pini Gurfil

  19. Optimal Servicing of Geostationary Satellites Considering Earth’s Triaxiality and Lunisolar Effects

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

    Pini Gurfil

  20. Improvements to Time of Closest Approach Calculation

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

    Dr Elad Denenberg, Pini Gurfil

  21. Relative Reachable Domain for Spacecraft with Initial State Uncertainties

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

    Dr Changxuan Wen, Pini Gurfil

  22. Distributed Control for Satellite Cluster Flight Under Different Communication Topologies

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

    Hao Zhang, Pini Gurfil

  23. Investigation of multiple-baseline stereovision for state estimation of unknown dynamic space targets

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering, June 2015, SAGE Publications

    Pini Gurfil

  24. Optimal Target States for Satellite Cluster Flight Control on Near-Circular Orbits

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

    Pini Gurfil

  25. Orbit Injection Considerations for Cluster Flight of Nanosatellites

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Hao Zhang, Pini Gurfil

  26. Nanosatellite Cluster Keeping Under Thrust Uncertainties

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, September 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Hao Zhang, Pini Gurfil