Estimation and prediction of orbital debris reentry trajectories

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 845-851

  Tardy, Jason M ^a   Kluever, Craig A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; ESTIMATION; KALMAN FILTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; REENTRY; SATELLITES; SPACE STATIONS; TRAJECTORIES; VECTORS;

BALLISTIC COEFFICIENTS; DYNAMIC PROCESS NOISE PARAMETERS; IMPACT PREDICTION; ORBITAL DEBRIS REENTRY TRAJECTORIES; REENTRY ESTIMATION;

SPACE DEBRIS;

EID: 0036872274     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3906     Document Type: Article

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