Low energy transfer to the Moon

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 81, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 63-73

  Koon, W S ^a   Lo, M W ^b   Marsden, J E ^a   Ross, S D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth Moon transfer; Invariant manifolds; Space mission design; Three body problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002971972     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013359120468     Document Type: Article

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