Tethered system to get magnified radio pictures of the Galactic Center from a distance of 550 AU

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 109-114

  MacCone, Claudio ^a  

^a g Colombo Ctr for Astrodynamics   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; RELATIVITY; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; SUN;

BLACK HOLES; GALACTIC CENTER; GRAVITATIONAL LENSES;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0033358641     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(99)00110-1     Document Type: Article

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