Near-polár satellite constellations for continuous global coverage

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 92-99

  Ulybyshev, Yuri ^a,b  

^a S P KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA   (Russian Federation)

^b Space Ballistics Department ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS;

CONTINUOUS GLOBAL COVERAGE; NEAR POLAR SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS;

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES;

EID: 0032757487     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3419     Document Type: Article

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