Design of a Martian autonomous rotary-wing vehicle

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 461-472

  Datta, Anubhav ^a   Roget, Beatrice ^a   Griffiths, Daniel ^a   Pugliese, Gregory ^a   Sitaraman, Jayanarayanan ^a   Bao, Jinsong ^a   Liu, Lin ^a   Gamard, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATION LINKS; FUEL CELLS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; PLANETARY LANDERS;

MARS EXPLORATION; MARTIAN AUTONOMOUS ROTARY WING VEHICLE;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0037529104     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3141     Document Type: Article

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