Trajectories to Jupiter via gravity assists from Venus, Earth, and Mars

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 776-783

  Petropoulos, Anastassios E ^a   Longuski, James M ^a   Bonfiglio, Eugene P ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; OPTIMIZATION; PLANETS;

GRAVITY-ASSIST TRAJECTORIES; PATCHED-CONIC TECHNIQUES;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 0034317565     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3650     Document Type: Article

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