3D high-speed escape heliocentric trajectories by all-metallic-sail low-mass sailcraft

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 39, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 161-170

  Vulpetti, Giovanni ^a  

^a TELESPAZIO S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATION; ORBITS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALL METALLIC SAIL; HELIOCENTRIC TRAJECTORIES; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; SOLAR SAIL SPACECRAFT; TWO DIMENSIONAL THEORY;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 0030181950     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(96)00133-6     Document Type: Article

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