The Algorithm of the Two-Impulse Time-Fixed Noncoplanar Rendezvous with Drag and Oblateness Effects

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-64

  Kechichian, Jean Albert ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; MANEUVERABILITY; ORBITS; ALGORITHMS;

ECCENTRIC ORBITS; ELLIPTIC ORBIT; ITERATIVE SCHEMES; NATURAL OSCILLATION; OBLATENESS EFFECTS; RENDEZVOUS POINT; ROTATING REFERENCE FRAME; VEHICLE LOCATION;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

TWO-IMPULSE TIME-FIXED NONCOPLANAR RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 0031599029     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: 21950571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03546192     Document Type: Article

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