Colin R. McInnes

University of Glasgow — United Kingdom

Engineering · Physical Sciences

47h-index8.3kcitations465works1.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Spacecraft Dynamics and Control(305), Astro and Planetary Science(248), Space Satellite Systems and Control(176), Planetary Science and Exploration(62), Spacecraft Design and Technology(61)

Publications465 total

Stellar engines and Dyson bubbles can be stable
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2026Open Access
Transfer Learning for Sample-Efficient Training of Space Trajectory Cost Approximators
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems·2025Open Access
Displaced Solar Sail Orbits Around Asteroids with Free Angular Velocity
Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics·2025Open Access
Design of efficient lattice truss beams in bending and torsion for large-scale space structures
Structures·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Orbiting solar reflectors: a pathway to extended space-based solar power availability and enhanced grid stability
IET conference proceedings.·2025· 1 cited
Ringworlds and Dyson spheres can be stable
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Control Strategies for Large Space Structures: Application to Orbiting Solar Reflectors
2025Open Access
Formation-Flying for Orbital Reflector Swarms
2025
Autonomous Magnetic Attitude Control of Resource-Constrained Femtosatellites
2025Open Access
Stochastic monitoring of the space environment with femtosatellite swarms
Acta Astronautica·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
The Effects of Pointing Error Sources on Energy Delivery from Orbiting Solar Reflectors
Acta Astronautica·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Relative equilibria and periodic orbits in a Circular Planar (2+2)-Body Problem, Equilibria in an accelerated three-body problem
2024
A constellation design for orbiting solar reflectors to enhance terrestrial solar energy
Acta Astronautica·2024· 12 citedOpen Access
Gaussian Process for Modelling the Space Environment from Sparce Data Collected by Massively Distributed Femtosatellite Networks
2024
Multi-Target Space Mission Sequence Optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning
2024
Controllability of Orbiting Solar Reflectors Under Structural Failures.
2024
An Investigation into a Combined Service of Space-Based Solar Energy and Climate Engineering Via Orbiting Solar Reflectors
2024· 1 cited
The capture of small near-Earth asteroids in a bound binary pair in Earth's orbit
Acta Astronautica·2023Open Access
Equilibria in an accelerated three-body problem
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
A generic three-dimensional model for solar energy reflected from mirrors in circular orbits
Advances in Space Research·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Malcolm Macdonald(9), Gareth W. Hughes(4), Joan-Pau Sanchez Cuartielles(4), Jeannette Heiligers(4), J. F. L. Simmons(3), Hexi Baoyin(3), Matteo Ceriotti(3), Bernd Dachwald(2), A. Lyngvi(2), P. Falkner(2), Alessandro Atzei(2), Camilla Colombo(2), D.G. Gorman(1), Matthew P. Cartmell(1), Alastair J. C. McDonald(1), Ewan W. MacDonald(1), R. James McKay(1), James Biggs(1), Thomas Waters(1), Ahmed Badawy(1)