Optimal free-return trajectories for Moon missions and Mars missions

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 183-206

  Miele, A ^a   Wang, T ^a   Mancuso, S ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MANEUVERABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MOON; PLANETS; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; TRAJECTORIES; VELOCITY; FREE FLIGHT; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; ORBITS;

FREE RETURN TRAJECTORIES; LOW EARTH ORBIT; MARS MISSIONS; MIRROR IMAGE PROPERTY; MOON MISSIONS; SEQUENTIAL GRADIENT RESTORATION ALGORITHM;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MOON;

CHARACTERISTIC VELOCITIES; FREE-RETURN TRAJECTORIES; INERTIAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS; LOW EARTH ORBIT(LEO); MINIMUM ENERGY TRAJECTORIES; RESTORATION ALGORITHM; ROTATING COORDINATE SYSTEM; TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0034165601     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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