Andy Heaton

420 total citations
13 papers, 310 citations indexed

About

Andy Heaton is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Andy Heaton has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 310 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 10 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 1 paper in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Andy Heaton's work include Astro and Planetary Science (9 papers), Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (8 papers) and Space Satellite Systems and Control (5 papers). Andy Heaton is often cited by papers focused on Astro and Planetary Science (9 papers), Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (8 papers) and Space Satellite Systems and Control (5 papers). Andy Heaton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Israel. Andy Heaton's co-authors include Charles Adams, Greg Laue, Robin Pinson, Mark Whorton, Les Johnson, Alexandra B. Artusio‐Glimpse, Andy King, Ivan R. Bertaska, Roosevelt Wright and Michael Codish and has published in prestigious journals such as Acta Astronautica, The Journal of Logic Programming and AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit.

In The Last Decade

Andy Heaton

13 papers receiving 281 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andy Heaton United States	5	243	148	51	36	22	13	310
Robin Pinson United States	9	375 1.5×	210 1.4×	47 0.9×	36 1.0×	21 1.0×	14	444
Greg Laue United States	6	267 1.1×	159 1.1×	93 1.8×	71 2.0×	30 1.4×	13	375
Marie Levine United States	9	94 0.4×	94 0.6×	135 2.6×	48 1.3×	26 1.2×	40	336
Qian Xu China	11	169 0.7×	60 0.4×	62 1.2×	64 1.8×	69 3.1×	55	288
Shinji Mitani Japan	9	150 0.6×	89 0.6×	16 0.3×	38 1.1×	61 2.8×	45	268
M. Noca United States	10	251 1.0×	175 1.2×	13 0.3×	6 0.2×	69 3.1×	24	325
Renaud Goullioud United States	10	85 0.3×	148 1.0×	25 0.5×	87 2.4×	56 2.5×	68	345
Marco Bassetto Italy	16	554 2.3×	373 2.5×	26 0.5×	6 0.2×	14 0.6×	48	590
John Steeves United States	9	44 0.2×	61 0.4×	26 0.5×	30 0.8×	44 2.0×	27	178
Carl Blaurock United States	11	122 0.5×	53 0.4×	66 1.3×	30 0.8×	33 1.5×	27	278

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Heaton, Andy, et al.. (2022). An Integrated Software Architecture for Solar Cruiser Mission Design and Navigation. 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO). 1–9. 1 indexed citations

2.

Johnson, Les, et al.. (2018). New Moon Explorer (NME) Robotic Precursor Mission Concept. 1 indexed citations

3.

Bertaska, Ivan R., et al.. (2017). Cold Gas Reaction Control System for the Near Earth Asteroid Scout CubeSat. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 6 indexed citations

4.

Vaughn, Jason, et al.. (2017). Findings from NASA's 2015-2017 Electric Sail Investigations. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 1 indexed citations

5.

Heaton, Andy & Alexandra B. Artusio‐Glimpse. (2015). An Update to the NASA Reference Solar Sail Thrust Model. AIAA SPACE 2015 Conference and Exposition. 16 indexed citations

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Heaton, Andy, et al.. (2014). Validation of Solar Sail Simulations for the NASA Solar Sail Demonstration Project. 2 indexed citations

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Johnson, Les, et al.. (2012). Multiple NEO Rendezvous Using Solar Sail Propulsion. 8 indexed citations

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Johnson, Les, Mark Whorton, Andy Heaton, et al.. (2010). NanoSail-D: A solar sail demonstration mission. Acta Astronautica. 68(5-6). 571–575. 252 indexed citations

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Johnson, Les, Mark Whorton, Andy Heaton, et al.. (2009). NanoSail-D: A Solar Sail Demonstration Mission. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 1 indexed citations

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Whorton, Mark, Andy Heaton, Robin Pinson, Greg Laue, & Charles Adams. (2008). NanoSail-D: The First Flight Demonstration of Solar Sails for Nanosatellites. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 143. 109925–109925. 13 indexed citations

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Heaton, Andy, et al.. (2007). AVGS, AR&D for Satellites, ISS, the Moon, Mars and Beyond. 2 indexed citations

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Heaton, Andy. (2005). Solar Sail Roadmap Mission GN&C Challenges. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit. 3 indexed citations

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Heaton, Andy, et al.. (2000). A simple polynomial groundness analysis for logic programs. The Journal of Logic Programming. 45(1-3). 143–156. 4 indexed citations

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