New challenges to trajectory design by the use of electric propulsion and other new means of wandering in the solar system

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-24

  Racca, Giuseppe D ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flight dynamics; Mission analysis; Optimisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037226263     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021787311087     Document Type: Article

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