Optimal low-thrust rendezvous using equinoctial orbit elements

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-14

  Kechichian, Jean Albert ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INTEGRATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITAL TRANSFER; ORBITS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

APPLICABILITY; CONTINUOUS CONSTANT ACCELERATION; EQUINOCTIAL ORBIT ELEMENTS; NEWTON-RAPHSON SCHEME; ORBIT TRANSFERS; TRANSVERSALITY CONDITION; VARIATIONAL HAMILTONIAN;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 0029716076     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0094-5765(95)00121-2     Document Type: Article

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