Direct approach for computing near-optimal low-thrust earth-orbit transfers

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 509-515

  Kluever, Craig A ^a,c,d   Oleson, Steven R ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b NYMA Inc   (United States)

^c Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Space Propulsion Technology Section ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ORBITAL TRANSFER; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

NEAR-OPTIMAL LOW-THRUST EARTH-ORBIT TRANSFERS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0032119685     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3360     Document Type: Article

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