Mars Global Surveyor: Aerobraking mission overview

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 307-313

  Lyons, Daniel T ^a   Beerer, Joseph G ^a   Esposito, Pasquale ^a   Johnston, M Daniel ^a   Willcockson, William H ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; ORBITS;

AEROBRAKING; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR; PROPULSIVE MANEUVERS; SOLAR WINGS;

PLANETARY LANDERS;

EID: 0032653405     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3472     Document Type: Article

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