Analytic control laws for near-optimal geocentric solar sail transfers

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 109 III, Issue , 2002, Pages 2393-2411

  Macdonald, Malcolm ^a   McInnes, Colin R ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITAL TRANSFER; ORBITS;

SOLAR SAILS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 0036063811     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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