Approximate initial lagrange costates for continuous-thrust spacecraft

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 283-288

  Thorne, James D ^a,b   Hall, Christopher D ^a,b  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Dept of Aero and Astronautics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ORBITAL TRANSFER; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

CONTINUOUS THRUST SPACECRAFT; EARTH TO MARS ORBITAL TRANSFER; LAGRANGE COSTATES; SHOOTING METHOD; THRUST ACCELERATION;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0030106810     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.21616     Document Type: Article

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