Interplanetary flyby mission optimization using a hybrid global-local search method

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 468-474

  Crain, Timothy ^a   Bishop, Robert H ^a   Fowler, Wallace ^a   Rock, Kenneth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GRAVITATION; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; PLANETS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; TRAJECTORIES;

EARTH RETURN ENERGY; GLOBAL SEARCH PROPERTIES; INTERPLANETARY FLYBY MISSION OPTIMIZATION; LOCAL SEARCH CHARACTERISTICS;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 0034226216     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3607     Document Type: Article

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