Closed-form solution of an idealized, optimal, highly eccentric hyperbolic rendezvous problem

Dynamics and Control

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 293-307

  Carter, Thomas E ^a,b  

^a EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; ORBITS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CLOSED FORM PROBLEM SOLUTIONS; HIGHLY ECCENTRIC OPTIMAL IMPULSIVE RENDEZVOUS PROBLEMS;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 0030189670     PISSN: 09254668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02169490     Document Type: Article

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