A solution of the elliptic rendezvous problem with the time as independent variable

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 112 I, Issue , 2002, Pages 585-604

  Broucke, Roger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ORBITS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

ELLIPTIC ORBIT; ELLIPTIC RENDEZVOUS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036914740     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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