Electric-propulsion spacecraft optimization for lunar missions

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 235-239

  Kluever, Craig A ^a,b   Chang, Kun Rong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITAL TRANSFER; ORBITS; PROPELLANTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORIES;

EARTH ESCAPE SPIRAL TRAJECTORIES; ELECTRIC PROPULSION SPACECRAFT; MOON CAPTURE SPIRAL TRAJECTORIES; PAYLOAD; SPACECRAFT SIZING PARAMETERS; VEHICLE TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

EID: 0030110222     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.26746     Document Type: Article

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