Mercury mission design using solar electric propulsion spacecraft

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 411-413

  Kluever, Craig A ^a,b   Abu Saymeh, Mudar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPULSION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ORBITAL TRANSFER; ROCKETS; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; TRAJECTORIES;

GRAVITY ASSIST; LAUNCH VEHICLES; SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION (SEP);

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0032074175     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3346     Document Type: Article

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