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• workRoom B108 Coates Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work01157487228
• Nishanth.Pushparaj@nottingham.ac.uk

Teaching Summary

• Space and Astronautics (MMME3079)
• Spacecraft Systems and Design (MMME4038)
• Aerospace Group Design Project (MMME4105)

Recent Publications

• OZAKI, NAOYA, YANAGIDA, KANTA, CHIKAZAWA, TAKUYA, PUSHPARAJ, NISHANTH, TAKEISHI, NAOYA and HYODO, RYUKI, 2022. Asteroid Flyby Cycler Trajectory Design Using Deep Neural Networks Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 45(8), 1496-1511
• LIANG, YUYING, PUSHPARAJ, NISHANTH and KAWAKATSU, YASUHIRO, 2022. Point-to-Point Jumping Transfer on Phobos by Prograde g′ Family Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 45(6), 1172-1183
• NAOYA OZAKI, TAKAYUKI YAMAMOTO, FERRAN GONZALEZ-FRANQUESA, ROGER GUTIERREZ-RAMON, NISHANTH PUSHPARAJ, TAKUYA CHIKAZAWA, DIOGENE ALESSANDRO DEI TOS, ONUR ÇELIK, NICOLA MARMO, YASUHIRO KAWAKATSU, TOMOKO ARAI, KAZUTAKA NISHIYAMA and TAKESHI TAKASHIMA, 2022. Mission design of DESTINY+: Toward active asteroid (3200) Phaethon and multiple small bodies Acta Astronautica. 196, 42-56
• LIANG, YUYING, PUSHPARAJ, NISHANTH, KAWAKATSU, YASUHIRO and FUJIMOTO, MASAKI, 2021. POINT-TO-POINT JUMPING DYNAMICS ON PHOBOS BY PROGRADE ORBIT FAMILIES In: 1353 – 1370

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• OZAKI, NAOYA, YANAGIDA, KANTA, CHIKAZAWA, TAKUYA, PUSHPARAJ, NISHANTH, TAKEISHI, NAOYA and HYODO, RYUKI, 2022. Asteroid Flyby Cycler Trajectory Design Using Deep Neural Networks Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 45(8), 1496-1511
• LIANG, YUYING, PUSHPARAJ, NISHANTH and KAWAKATSU, YASUHIRO, 2022. Point-to-Point Jumping Transfer on Phobos by Prograde g′ Family Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 45(6), 1172-1183
• NAOYA OZAKI, TAKAYUKI YAMAMOTO, FERRAN GONZALEZ-FRANQUESA, ROGER GUTIERREZ-RAMON, NISHANTH PUSHPARAJ, TAKUYA CHIKAZAWA, DIOGENE ALESSANDRO DEI TOS, ONUR ÇELIK, NICOLA MARMO, YASUHIRO KAWAKATSU, TOMOKO ARAI, KAZUTAKA NISHIYAMA and TAKESHI TAKASHIMA, 2022. Mission design of DESTINY+: Toward active asteroid (3200) Phaethon and multiple small bodies Acta Astronautica. 196, 42-56
• LIANG, YUYING, PUSHPARAJ, NISHANTH, KAWAKATSU, YASUHIRO and FUJIMOTO, MASAKI, 2021. POINT-TO-POINT JUMPING DYNAMICS ON PHOBOS BY PROGRADE ORBIT FAMILIES In: 1353 – 1370
• OZAKI, NAOYA, YAMAMOTO, TAKAYUKI, PUSHPARAJ, NISHANTH, GONZALEZ-FRANQUESA, FERRAN, GUTIERREZ-RAMON, ROGER, CHIKAZAWA, TAKUYA, YANAGIDA, KANTA, PADILHA, DAN, TOS, DIOGENE ALESSANDRO DEI, ELIK, ONUR C., MARMO, NICOLA, KAWAKATSU, YASUHIRO, NISHIYAMA, KAZUTAKA and TAKASHIMAI, TAKESHI, 2021. Mission Design of DESTINY+: Toward Active Asteroid (3200) Phaethon In:
• PUSHPARAJ, NISHANTH, BARESI, NICOLA and KAWAKATSU, YASUHIRO, 2021. Martian Moons eXploration transfer analysis between planar and spatial QSOs around Phobos In:
• NISHANTH PUSHPARAJ, NICOLA BARESI, KENTO ICHINOMIYA and YASUHIRO KAWAKATSU, 2021. Transfers around Phobos via bifurcated retrograde orbits: Applications to Martian Moons eXploration mission Acta Astronautica. 181, 70-80
• NISHANTH PUSHPARAJ, NICOLA BARESI and YASUHIRO KAWAKATSU, 2021. Transfers and orbital maintenance of spatial retrograde orbits for Phobos exploration Acta Astronautica. 189, 452-464
• NISHANTH PUSHPARAJ, NICOLA BARESI and YASUHIRO KAWAKATSU, 2020. Design of Transfer Trajectories Between Planar and Spatial Quasi-Satellite Orbits In: AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum. 1-13
• DIOGENE ALESSANDRO DEI TOS, TAKAYUKI YAMAMOTO, NAOYA OZAKI, YU TANAKA, FERRAN GONZALEZ-FRANQUESA, NISHANTH PUSHPARAJ, ONUR CELIK, TAKESHI TAKASHIMA, KAZUTAKA NISHIYAMA and YASUHIRO KAWAKATSU, 2020. Operations-driven low-thrust trajectory optimization with applications to DESTINY+ In: AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum.
• KAWAKATSU, YASUHIRO, KURAMOTO, KIYOSHI, USUI, TOMOHIRO, IKEDA, HITOSHI, YOSHIKAWA, KENT, SAWADA, HIROTAKA, OZAKI, NAOYA, IMADA, TAKANE, OTAKE, HISASHI, MAKI, KENICHIRO, OTSUKI, MASATSUGU, MULLER, ROBERT, ZACNY, KRIS, SATOH, YASUTAKA, MARY, STEPHANE, GREBENSTEIN, MARKUS, TOKAJI, AYUMU, YUYING, LIANG, FRANQUESA, FERRAN GONZALEZ, PUSHPARAJ, NISHANTH and CHIKAZAWA, TAKUYA, 2020. System definition of Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) In: 71st International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2020.
• PUSHPARAJ, NISHANTH, BARESI, NICOLA and KAWAKATSU, YASUHIRO, 2020. Transfers around phobos using invariant manifolds of unstable quasi-satellite orbits In: 71st International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2020.
• SELLAMUTHU, HARISHKUMAR, SHARMA, RAM KRISHAN, PUSHPARAJ, NISHANTH, RAVICHANDRAN, SRINATH and KHADRI, SYED PEER MOHAMED SHAH, 2020. Regularized analytical orbit theory with solar radiation pressure In: 71st International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2020.
• NISHANTH PUSHPARAJ, NICOLA BARESI, KENTO ICHINOMIYA and YASUHIRO KAWAKATSU, 2019. Multi-Revolutional Periodic Orbit Transfers in the Ellipsoidal Gravity Field of Phobos In: 32nd International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS). 1-8
• NISHANTH PUSHPARAJ and RAM KRISHAN SHARMA, 2017. Halo Orbits at Sun-Mars L1, L2 in the Photogravitational Restricted Three-Body Problem with Oblateness Advances in Astrophysics. 2(1), 35-51
• NISHANTH PUSHPARAJ and RAM KRISHAN SHARMA, 2017. Interior Resonance Periodic Orbits in Photogravitational Restricted Three-body Problem Advances in Astrophysics. 2(1), 25-34
• NISHANTH PUSHPARAJ and RAM KRISHAN SHARMA, 2017. Progression of bifurcated family f type periodic orbits in the circular restricted three-body problem International Journal of Advanced Astronomy. 5(2), 69-78
• NISHANTH PUSHPARAJ and RAM KRISHAN SHARMA, 2016. Oblateness Effect of Saturn on Halo Orbits of L1 and L2 in Saturn-Satellites Restricted Three-Body Problem International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 6(4), 347-377