Motion in general elliptic orbit with respect to a dragging and precessing coordinate frame

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-45

  Kechichian, Jean Albert ^a,b  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b AAS ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DRAG; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ITERATIVE METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

ELLIPTIC ORBIT; ITERATIVE SCHEMES; OBLATENESS; POSITION DEPENDENTS; ROTATING REFERENCE FRAME; SECOND ORDER NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION;

ORBITS; SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

COORDINATE FRAME; ELLIPTIC ORBIT;

EID: 0031598947     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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