Departments - Prod > Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering > People > Research Fellows > Charles Bussy-Virat
Research Fellow
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
2128 SRB
Climate & Space Research Building University of Michigan 2455 Hayward Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143(312) 508-0412
Spacecraft trajectory modeling, spacecraft collision avoidance, space misison design and analysis, space weather
I’m currently involved in the NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System mission and work on orbit determination, spacecraft orbit modeling, and space weather effects on satellite trajectories.
2017 Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement.
Bussy-Virat, C. D., A. J. Ridley, A. Masher, K. Nave, and M. Intelisano (2018, under revision), Assessment of the Differential Drag Maneuver Operations on the CYGNSS Constellation, Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, CYGNSS Special Issue
Bussy-Virat, C. D., A. J. Ridley, and J. W. Getchius (2018), Effects of uncertainties in the atmospheric density on the probability of collision between space objects, Space Weather
Bussy-Virat, C. D., C. S. Ruf, and A. J. Ridley (2018, accepted, in publishing process), Relationship between temporal and spatial resolution for a constellation of GNSS-R satellites, Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, CYGNSS Special Issue
Bussy-Virat, C. D., A. J. Ridley, and J. W. Getchius (2018, accepted, in publishing process), Generalization of the effects of atmospheric density uncertainties on the probability of collision, 41st Annual AAS Guidance and Control Conference
Bussy-Virat, C. D., J. W. Getchius, and A. J. Ridley (2018). The Spacecraft Orbital Characterization Kit and its Applications to the CYGNSS Mission, 2018 Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, p. 1973, doi:10.2514/6.2018-1973
Crespo, J. A., D. J. Posselt, C. M. Naud, and C. D. Bussy-Virat (2017), Assessing CYGNSS’s Potential to Observe Extratropical Fronts and Cyclones, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0050.1
Bussy-Virat, C. D., and A. J. Ridley (2016), Twenty-four hour predictions of the solar wind speed peaks by the probability distribution function model, Space Weather, 14, 861–873, doi:10.1002/2016SW001437
Bussy-Virat, C. D., and A. J. Ridley (2014), Predictions of the solar wind speed by the probability distribution function model, Space Weather, 12, 337–353, doi:10.1002/2014SW001051