Class information for:
Level 1: FORMATION FLYING//JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS//SPACECRAFT FORMATION FLYING

Basic class information
Class id #P Avg. number of
references		 Database coverage
of references
8453 1252 21.6 41%


Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Hierarchy of classes
The table includes all classes above and classes immediately below the current class.


Cluster id Level Cluster label #P
19 4 ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS//ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL//ASTRON 523489
170 3       ICARUS//JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS//METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE 58974
477 2             ASTEROIDS//JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS//ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE 15800
8453 1                   FORMATION FLYING//JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS//SPACECRAFT FORMATION FLYING 1252

Terms with highest relevance score


rank Term termType Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 FORMATION FLYING authKW 803441 6% 46% 71
2 JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS journal 694646 32% 7% 404
3 SPACECRAFT FORMATION FLYING authKW 503404 3% 61% 34
4 SATELLITE FORMATION FLYING authKW 476310 2% 78% 25
5 ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE WoSSC 288926 73% 1% 910
6 SPACECRAFT RENDEZVOUS authKW 251570 1% 74% 14
7 RELATIVE MOTION authKW 228616 3% 25% 38
8 LORENTZ SPACECRAFT authKW 219489 1% 100% 9
9 JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES journal 219327 7% 10% 90
10 J2 PERTURBATION authKW 206066 1% 65% 13

Web of Science journal categories


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 Engineering, Aerospace 288926 73% 1% 910
2 Instruments & Instrumentation 15008 34% 0% 431
3 Automation & Control Systems 1277 7% 0% 87
4 Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications 754 6% 0% 75
5 Astronomy & Astrophysics 717 11% 0% 140
6 Engineering, General 216 4% 0% 46
7 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences 163 4% 0% 49
8 Operations Research & Management Science 161 3% 0% 38
9 Geosciences, Multidisciplinary 106 5% 0% 57
10 Engineering, Mechanical 71 3% 0% 42

Address terms


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 DISTRIBUTED SPACE SYST 164812 1% 48% 14
2 ASTRODYNAM CONTROL 121205 1% 38% 13
3 AEROSP SCI ENGN 115764 5% 8% 62
4 SATELLITE TECHNOL 78087 2% 12% 26
5 CODE MAE MR 73163 0% 100% 3
6 SPACECRAFT DYNAM CONTROL 65031 0% 67% 4
7 GERMAN SPACE OPERAT 55724 1% 19% 12
8 SPACE FLIGHT TECHNOL 54871 0% 75% 3
9 AEROSP ENGN 49466 17% 1% 210
10 AON SPACE 48775 0% 100% 2

Journals


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS 694646 32% 7% 404
2 JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES 219327 7% 10% 90
3 ACTA ASTRONAUTICA 115959 13% 3% 165
4 CELESTIAL MECHANICS & DYNAMICAL ASTRONOMY 32238 4% 3% 49
5 JOURNAL OF SPACECRAFT AND ROCKETS 25768 5% 2% 67
6 AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 16033 3% 2% 37
7 PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART G-JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING 8986 2% 1% 25
8 AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING AND AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY 8282 1% 2% 16
9 ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH 5520 4% 0% 47
10 JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING 4796 1% 1% 14

Author Key Words


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class		 LCSH search Wikipedia search
1 FORMATION FLYING 803441 6% 46% 71 Search FORMATION+FLYING Search FORMATION+FLYING
2 SPACECRAFT FORMATION FLYING 503404 3% 61% 34 Search SPACECRAFT+FORMATION+FLYING Search SPACECRAFT+FORMATION+FLYING
3 SATELLITE FORMATION FLYING 476310 2% 78% 25 Search SATELLITE+FORMATION+FLYING Search SATELLITE+FORMATION+FLYING
4 SPACECRAFT RENDEZVOUS 251570 1% 74% 14 Search SPACECRAFT+RENDEZVOUS Search SPACECRAFT+RENDEZVOUS
5 RELATIVE MOTION 228616 3% 25% 38 Search RELATIVE+MOTION Search RELATIVE+MOTION
6 LORENTZ SPACECRAFT 219489 1% 100% 9 Search LORENTZ+SPACECRAFT Search LORENTZ+SPACECRAFT
7 J2 PERTURBATION 206066 1% 65% 13 Search J2+PERTURBATION Search J2+PERTURBATION
8 SPACECRAFT HOVERING 195101 1% 100% 8 Search SPACECRAFT+HOVERING Search SPACECRAFT+HOVERING
9 CONSTANT THRUST 187593 1% 77% 10 Search CONSTANT+THRUST Search CONSTANT+THRUST
10 FUEL OPTIMAL 179578 1% 82% 9 Search FUEL+OPTIMAL Search FUEL+OPTIMAL

Core articles
The table includes core articles in the class. The following variables is taken into account for the relevance score of an article in a cluster c:
(1) Number of references referring to publications in the class.
(2) Share of total number of active references referring to publications in the class.
(3) Age of the article. New articles get higher score than old articles.
(4) Citation rate, normalized to year.


Rank Reference # ref.
in cl.		 Shr. of ref. in
cl.		 Citations
1 LUO, YZ , ZHANG, J , TANG, GJ , (2014) SURVEY OF ORBITAL DYNAMICS AND CONTROL OF SPACE RENDEZVOUS.CHINESE JOURNAL OF AERONAUTICS. VOL. 27. ISSUE 1. P. 1 -11 62 83% 11
2 SINCLAIR, AJ , SHERRILL, RE , LOVELL, TA , (2015) GEOMETRIC INTERPRETATION OF THE TSCHAUNER-HEMPEL SOLUTIONS FOR SATELLITE RELATIVE MOTION.ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH. VOL. 55. ISSUE 9. P. 2268 -2279 36 97% 3
3 BANDO, M , ICHIKAWA, A , (2010) PERIODIC ORBITS OF NONLINEAR RELATIVE DYNAMICS ALONG AN ECCENTRIC ORBIT.JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS. VOL. 33. ISSUE 2. P. 385-395 24 100% 5
4 CONDURACHE, D , MARTINUSI, V , (2009) EXACT SOLUTION TO THE RELATIVE ORBITAL MOTION IN ECCENTRIC ORBITS.SOLAR SYSTEM RESEARCH. VOL. 43. ISSUE 1. P. 41-52 27 90% 5
5 ROSCOE, CWT , WESTPHAL, JJ , GRIESBACH, JD , SCHAUB, H , (2015) FORMATION ESTABLISHMENT AND RECONFIGURATION USING DIFFERENTIAL ELEMENTS IN J2-PERTURBED ORBITS.JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS. VOL. 38. ISSUE 9. P. 1725 -1740 20 100% 1
6 GODARD , KUMAR, KD , (2010) FAULT TOLERANT RECONFIGURABLE SATELLITE FORMATIONS USING ADAPTIVE VARIABLE STRUCTURE TECHNIQUES.JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS. VOL. 33. ISSUE 3. P. 969 -984 26 81% 20
7 BANDO, M , ICHIKAWA, A , (2013) IN-PLANE MOTION CONTROL OF HILL-CLOHESSY-WILTSHIRE EQUATIONS BY SINGLE INPUT.JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS. VOL. 36. ISSUE 5. P. 1512-1522 20 100% 1
8 XU, M , ZHU, JM , TAN, T , XU, SJ , (2012) APPLICATION OF HAMILTONIAN STRUCTURE-PRESERVING CONTROL TO FORMATION FLYING ON A J (2)-PERTURBED MEAN CIRCULAR ORBIT.CELESTIAL MECHANICS & DYNAMICAL ASTRONOMY. VOL. 113. ISSUE 4. P. 403 -433 24 86% 0
9 BANDO, M , ICHIKAWA, A , (2010) SATELLITE FORMATION AND RECONFIGURATION WITH RESTRICTED CONTROL INTERVAL.JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS. VOL. 33. ISSUE 2. P. 607-615 21 100% 5
10 ZHU, ZL , YAN, Y , (2016) TWO-TANGENT-IMPULSE FLYBY OF SPACE TARGET FROM AN ELLIPTIC INITIAL ORBIT.ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH. VOL. 57. ISSUE 10. P. 2177 -2186 19 95% 0

Classes with closest relation at Level 1


Rank Class id link
1 8806 JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS//LOW THRUST//TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION
2 6111 ATTITUDE CONTROL//FLEXIBLE SPACECRAFT//ATTITUDE TRACKING
3 12283 LIBRATION POINT ORBITS//HALO ORBIT//CIRCULAR RESTRICTED THREE BODY PROBLEM
4 17518 SPACE DEBRIS//ORBITAL DEBRIS//ORBITAL DEBRIS PROGRAM OFF
5 14222 FROZEN ORBITS//CRITICAL INCLINATION//HIGH AREA TO MASS RATIO
6 27878 ORBITAL REPLACEMENT UNIT//MULTI STATE FAILURE//HEALTH SCORECARD
7 17999 SPACE ROBOT//SPACE MANIPULATOR//NON COOPERATIVE TARGET
8 24361 X RAY PULSAR//X RAY PULSAR BASED NAVIGATION//PULSAR NAVIGATION
9 16279 SOLAR SAIL//ADV SPACE CONCEPTS//ELECTRIC SOLAR WIND SAIL
10 12850 STAR SENSOR//STAR TRACKER//ATTITUDE DETERMINATION

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