A complexity-based risk assessment of low-cost planetary missions: When is a mission too fast and too cheap?

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 52, Issue 2-6, 2003, Pages 371-379

  Bearden, David A ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ORBITS; PLANETS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SPACECRAFT;

PLANETARY MISSIONS;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 0037237858     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(02)00177-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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