Fuel-optimal rendezvous in a central force field with linear drag

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 108 II, Issue , 2001, Pages 1875-1892

  Humi, Mayer ^a   Carter, Thomas ^a  

^a Life Science and Bioengineering Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FUEL SYSTEMS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITES;

CENTRAL FORCE FIELD; FUEL OPTIMAL RENDEZVOUS;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 0035734210     PISSN: 10816003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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