Publications

Here is a selection of some of the papers I have cooperated on over the past few years. It isn’t exhaustive, but I hope that it’s useful.

  • Radar Tracking Campaigns for ESA CO-VI Jordi Fontdecaba i Baig, Francis Martinerie, Moise Sutter, Vincent Martinot, Emmet Fletcher European Space Surveillance Conference, 7-9 June 2011, Madrid, Spain.  Following the decision at the Ministerial Council 2008 to initiate a Preparatory Programm...
  • Status and progress of ESA’s Space Situational Awareness Programme Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, 14-17 September 2010 In November 2008, the European Space Agency (ESA) Council at Ministerial level approved the start of ESA’s Space Situational Awareness programme. Between 2009 an...
  • The European Surveillance and Tracking System – Services and Design Drivers Holger Krag, Heiner Klinkrad, Tim Flohrer, Emmet Fletcher. SpaceOps2010 Conference, 25-30 April 2010, Huntsville, Alabama AIAA 2010-1927 Europe is preparing for the development of an autonomous system for space situational awareness. One important segmen...
  • The European Space Surveillance System – Required Performance and Design Concepts Holger Krag, Heiner Klinkrad, Tim Flohrer, Emmet Fletcher and Nicolas Bobrinsky, Eighth US/Russian Space Surveillance Workshop, Maui April 18 - 23, 2010 Europe is preparing for the development of an autonomous system for space situational awareness. One ...
  • Satellite Tool Kit 6.0 2nd International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques, 13th September 2004, ESA/ESTEC. Noordwijk, The Netherlands Outline of the current concepts within the STK portfolio. [gview file="http://www.emmetfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
  • Contingency Planning and Mission Performance Impacts Emmet Fletcher, December 2003, Madrid, Spain Launch uncertainties can cause a significant impact on the scope and lifetime of any satellite mission. Through the use of COTS software, coupled with algorithms tailored to meet the system to be studied can e...
  • Software Architecture for Libration Point Orbit Missions Libration Point Orbits and Their Applications, Parador d'Aiguablava, Girona, Spain. 10 - 14 June, 2002 The Satellite Tool Kit (STK) Astrogator software module is the third and most recent version of a program originally developed by NASA Goddard Space F...
  • Satellite Tool Kit for Astrodynamics Analysis 1st International Conference on Astrodynamic Tools and Techniques, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. 17th July 2001 ...