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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
38
Citations
5720
World Ranking
2265
National Ranking
824

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions in dynamical systems theory and invariant manifolds culminating in optimal interplanetary trajectories and the Interplanetary Superhighway.

Best Publications

  • Three-dimensional, periodic, ‘halo’ orbits

    Kathleen Connor Howell

  • Numerical determination of Lissajous trajectories in the restricted three-body problem

    K. C. Howell;Henry J. Pernicka

  • Application of Dynamical Systems Theory to Trajectory Design for a Libration Point Mission

    K. C. Howell;B. T. Barden;M. W. Lo

  • Station-keeping method for libration point trajectories

    K. C. Howell;Henry J. Pernicka

  • Genesis Mission Design

    Martin W. Lo;Bobby G. Williams;Williard E. Bollman;Dongsuk Han

  • Low-Thrust Transfers in the Earth-Moon System, Including Applications to Libration Point Orbits

    M. T. Ozimek;K. C. Howell

  • Families of orbits in the vicinity of the collinear libration points

    K. C. Howell

  • Almost rectilinear halo orbits

    K. C. Howell;J. V. Breakwell

  • Multibody Orbit Architectures for Lunar South Pole Coverage

    Daniel J. Grebow;Martin T. Ozimek;Kathleen C. Howell;David C. Folta

  • Transfers between the Earth–Moon and Sun–Earth systems using manifolds and transit orbits

    Kathleen C. Howell;Masaki Kakoi

  • Improved Corrections Process for Constrained Trajectory Design in the n-Body Problem

    Belinda G. Marchand;Kathleen C. Howell;Roby S. Wilson

  • Earth-Moon Libration Point Orbit Stationkeeping: Theory, Modeling and Operations

    David C. Folta;Thomas A. Pavlak;Amanda F. Haapala;Kathleen C. Howell

  • Control strategies for formation flight in the vicinity of the libration points

    B. G. Marchand;K. C. Howell

  • FUNDAMENTAL MOTIONS NEAR COLLINEAR LIBRATION POINTS AND THEIR TRANSITIONS

    B. T. Barden;K. C. Howell

  • Natural and non-natural spacecraft formations near the L1 and L2 libration points in the Sun–Earth/Moon ephemeris system

    K. C. Howell;B. G. Marchand

  • Evidence of Large Empty Lava Tubes on the Moon using GRAIL Gravity

    Loic Chappaz;Rohan Sood;Henry J. Melosh;Kathleen C. Howell

  • The structural stability of lunar lava tubes

    David M. Blair;Loic Chappaz;Rohan Sood;Colleen Milbury

  • Applications of multi-body dynamical environments: The ARTEMIS transfer trajectory design

    David C. Folta;Mark Woodard;Kathleen Howell;Chris Patterson

  • Genesis mission design

    Martin Lo;Bobby Williams;Williard Bollman;Dongsuk Han

  • Temporary Satellite Capture of short-period Jupiter family comets from the perspective of dynamical systems

    K. C. Howell;B. G. Marchand;M. W. Lo

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