Mission analysis of spinning systems for transfers from low orbits to geostationary

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 165-172

  Lorenzini, E C ^a   Cosmo, M L ^a   Kaiser, M ^b   Bangham, M E ^c   Vonderwell, D J ^c   Johnson, L ^d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITAL TRANSFER; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; TETHERLINES;

GEOTRANSFER ORBIT; MISSION ANALYSIS; SPINNING SYSTEMS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 0033878563     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3562     Document Type: Article

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