| QUEST: A New Frontiers Uranus orbiter mission concept study S Jarmak, E Leonard, A Akins, E Dahl, DR Cremons, S Cofield, A Curtis, ... Acta Astronautica 170, 6-26, 2020 | 41 | 2020 |
| Feasibility and Performance Analysis of Neptune Aerocapture Using Heritage Blunt Body Aeroshells AP Girija, SJ Saikia, JM Longuski, S Bhaskaran, MS Smith, JA Cutts Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2020 | 34 | 2020 |
| Feasibility and mass-benefit analysis of aerocapture for missions to Venus AP Girija, Y Lu, SJ Saikia Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 57 (1), 58-73, 2020 | 31 | 2020 |
| Aerocapture as an enhancing option for ice giants missions S Dutta, G Afonso, SW Albert, HK Ali, GA Allen, AI Alunni, JO Arnold, ... | 29 | 2020 |
| A Flagship-class Uranus Orbiter and Probe mission concept using aerocapture AP Girija Acta Astronautica 202, 104-118, 2023 | 28 | 2023 |
| Enabling and Enhancing Science Exploration Across the Solar System: Aerocapture Technology for SmallSat to Flagship Missions A Austin, G Afonso Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 53 (4), 057, 2021 | 27 | 2021 |
| Quantitative assessment of aerocapture and applications to future solar system exploration AP Girija, SJ Saikia, JM Longuski, Y Lu, JA Cutts Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 59 (4), 1074-1095, 2022 | 22 | 2022 |
| AMAT: A Python package for rapid conceptual design of aerocapture and atmospheric Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) missions in a Jupyter environment AP Girija, SJ Saikia, JM Longuski, JA Cutts Journal of Open Source Software 6 (67), 3710, 2021 | 21 | 2021 |
| A Systems Framework and Analysis Tool for Rapid Conceptual Design of Aerocapture Missions AP Girija Purdue University Graduate School, 2021 | 20 | 2021 |
| New Frontiers-class Uranus Orbiter: Exploring the feasibility of achieving multidisciplinary science with a mid-scale mission I Cohen, C Beddingfield, R Chancia, G DiBraccio, M Hedman, ... Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 53 (4), 323, 2021 | 19 | 2021 |
| A Venus Atmosphere Sample Return Mission Concept: Feasibility and Technology Requirements E Shibata, Y Lu, AP Girija, JA Cutts, SJ Saikia Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop 1989, 8164, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
| Mission architecture to characterize habitability of venus cloud layers via an aerial platform R Agrawal, WP Buchanan, A Arora, AP Girija, M De Jong, S Seager, ... Aerospace 9 (7), 359, 2022 | 17 | 2022 |
| Aerocapture: Enabling Small Spacecraft Direct Access to Low-Circular Orbits for Planetary Constellations AP Girija, SJ Saikia, JM Longuski Aerospace 10 (3), 271, 2023 | 15 | 2023 |
| Venus life finder mission study S Seager, JJ Petkowski, CE Carr, D Grinspoon, B Ehlmann, SJ Saikia, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.05153, 2021 | 14 | 2021 |
| Venus observing system S Limaye, NM Abedin, CO Ao, T Bocanegra, MA Bullock, JP Carrico, ... Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 53 (4), 370, 2021 | 14 | 2021 |
| ADEPT Drag Modulation Aerocapture: Applications for Future Titan Exploration AP Girija arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10412, 2023 | 13 | 2023 |
| A Unified Framework for Aerocapture Systems Analysis AP Girija, SJ Saikia, JM Longuski, JA Cutts 2019 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
| One EURO for Uranus: the Elliptical Uranian Relativity Orbiter mission L Iorio, AP Girija, D Durante Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 523 (3), 3595-3614, 2023 | 12 | 2023 |
| Aerocapture: A Historical Review and Bibliometric Data Analysis from 1980 to 2023 AP Girija arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.01437, 2023 | 11 | 2023 |
| Comparative Study of Planetary Atmospheres and Implications for Atmospheric Entry Missions AP Girija arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.16277, 2023 | 10 | 2023 |
Ye LuAssistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteVerified email at wpi.edu
