SIMONE: Near-Earth asteroid rendezvous microsatellites with solar-electric propulsion

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 500, 2002, Pages 87-90

  Ball, Andrew J ^a   Green, Simon F ^a   Wells, Nigel S ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITES; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; SPACECRAFT;

ASTEROIDS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0036664852     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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