Characterizing Highways and Automated Navigation in Cislunar Environment (CHANCE)

  • UT Austin PI: Maruthi Akella
  • Lead PI: Kathleen Howell, Purdue University
  • Collaborating Institutions: Purdue University, Pennsylvania State University, Georgia Tech
  • Funding Source: AFOSR
  • Award: $4.5M
  • Award Date: 7/23

This research will look at basic research challenges to path planning, navigation, and control within the context of space domain awareness in cislunar space. Researchers plan to improve the foundational understanding of pathways throughout the cislunar region, and leverage these insights to track and predict the locations of objects beyond Earth’s neighborhood. The unique dynamical characteristics of the cislunar region and the associated pathways will then provide the important building blocks for autonomous spacecraft navigation, decision-making, and control responses. Learn more.