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Submissions from 2024
Preliminary Lunar Surface SSA Architecture Optimization for the Observabilty of Cislunar and Lunar Resident Space Objects, Clint Spesard and Robert A. Bettinger
LES Investigation of Film Cooling in Rotating Detonation Combustors, Shreyas Ramanagar Sridhara, Antonio Andreini, Marc D. Polanka, and Myles D. Bohon
Strength Measurement of the E_α^lab = 830 keV Resonance in the Ne 22 ( α , n ) Mg 25 Reaction using a Stilbene Detector, Shahina S., R. J. DeBoer, J. Gorres, R. Fang, Michael T. Febbraro, R. Kelmar, M. Matney, K. Manukyan, J. T. Nattress, E. Robles, T. J. Rutland, T. T. King, A. Sanchez, R. S. Sidhu, E. Stech, and M. Wiescher
Analysis of lithium aging using machine learning-enhanced spectroscopy techniques, James T. Stofel, Ashwin P. Rao, Anil K. Patnaik, Andrew V. Griminaro, and Michael B. Shattan
Study Protocol: Identifying Transcriptional Regulatory Alterations of Chronic Effects of Blast and Disturbed Sleep in United States Veterans, Molly J. Sullan, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Zhaoyu Wang, Andrew J. Hoisington, Adam D. Brenoweth, Walter Carr, Yongchao Ge, Hanga Galfalvy, Fatemah Haghighi, and Lisa A. Brenner
Ezra Kotcher: The Father of the Bell X-1 and X-2, Timothy T. Takahashi
Landing Field Performance of Low L/D Gliding Airframes, Timothy T. Takahashi, Jose A. Camberos, and Ramana V. Grandhi
High-Speed Aircraft Stability and Control Metrics, Timothy T. Takahashi, Jack A. Griffin, and Ramana V. Grandhi
Performance comparison of continuous-wave and laser range-gate with continuous-wave time-of-flight and laser range-gate with range resolve active imaging systems, Joshua Teague, Furxhi Orges, Joshua Follanbee, Mark F. Spencer, and Ronald G. Driggers
Lab Demonstration of Dropped Channel Polarimetric Compressive Sensing, Nat Thomason, Cameron Goodbar, and Julie A. Jackson
The Impact of Cathode Geometry on Electron Hot Spot Formation and Ion Beam Properties in Pinched-Beam Diodes, Anneka K. Tichhy, Jesse C. Foster, S. B. Swanekamp, and P. F. Ottinger
Temporal Metadata Analysis: A Learning Classifier System Approach, Michael C. Todd and Gilbert L. Peterson
An Integrated Space Test Lexicon: A Taxonomy for the Integrated Test and Evaluation of Space Systems, Stephen Tullino, Andrew Keys, Robert A. Bettinger, Amy M. Cox, and David R. Jacques
Predictability Limit of the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave From Deep‐Learning Sensitivity Analysis, P. Trent Vonich and Gregory J. Hakim
Statistical reliability estimation of space launch vehicles: 2000–2022, Brooke N. Wagenblast and Robert A. Bettinger
The Impact of Data Preparation and Model Complexity on the Natural Language Classification of Chinese News Headlines, Torrey J. Wagner, Dennis Guhl, and Brent T. Langhals
Decomposing a Renewable Energy Design and Dispatch Model, Jesse Wales, Alexander Zolan, Tülay Flamand, and Alexandra Newman
Physically Unclonable Characteristics for Trapped Ion Quantum Processors, Karli E. Wallace, Michael K. Roberts, Leleia A. Hsia, and Laurence D. Merkle
A Unified Digital Twin Approach Incorporating Virtual, Physical, and Prescriptive Analytical Components to Support Adaptive Real-Time Decision-Making, Ryan B. Walton, Frank W. Ciarallo, and Lance E. Champagne
Responsible Machine Learning for United States Air Force Pilot Candidate Selection, Devin Wasilefsky, William N. Caballero, Chancellor Johnstone, Nathan B. Gaw, and Phillip R. Jenkins
Minimum Time Escape from a Circular Region of a Dubins Car, Isaac E. Weintraub, Alexander von Moll, and Meir Pachter
Harnessing the Fourth Dimension Through Nonlinear Damping in Optical Fiber Flow Sensing, Jeremiah C. Williams and Hengky Chandrahalim
Nonlinear damping as the fourth dimension in optical fiber anemometry, Jeremiah C. Williams and Hengky Chandrahalim
Sun–Venus CR3BP, Part 1: Periodic Orbit Generation, Stability, and Mission Investigation, Adam P. Wilmer, Robert A. Bettinger, Marcus J. Holzinger, and Jacob A. Dahlke
Improvements to the Stacked Beacon TARDIS Analysis, Benjamin Wilson, Santasri Bose-Pillai, Jack McCrae, Steven Zuraski, and Steven T. Fiorino