A three-mass tethered system for micro-g/variable-g applications

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1987, Pages 242-249

  Lorenzini, Enrico C ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b Radio and Geoastronomy Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPACECRAFT - ORBITS AND TRAJECTORIES; VIBRATIONS - ABSORPTION;

DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY; LIBRATION/LATERAL DAMPERS; MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS; SPACE STATION; THREE-MASS TETHERED SYSTEM;

SATELLITES;

EID: 0023348540     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.20209     Document Type: Article

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