A class of optimal two-impulse rendezvous using multiple-revolution Lambert solutions

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 131-148

  Prussing, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; ORBITS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; VECTORS;

ELLIPTIC ORBIT; PRIMER VECTOR THEORY; THRUST IMPULSE; TWO IMPULSE TRAJECTORY;

SPACECRAFT; BODIES OF REVOLUTION;

CIRCULAR ORBIT; ELLIPTIC ORBIT; LAGRANGE FORMULATION; MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS; PRIMER VECTOR THEORY; SPACECRAFT TRAJECTORIES; TERMINAL POINTS; THRUST IMPULSE;

EID: 0034165588     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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