Integrated hardware investigations of precision spacecraft rendezvous using the global positioning system

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 425-433

  Ebinuma, Takuji ^a   Bishop, Robert H ^a   Lightsey, E Glenn ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KALMAN FILTERING; ORBITS; SPACE FLIGHT;

AUTONOMOUS RENDEZVOUS; INTEGRATED GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION; LOW EARTH ORBIT;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 0037601908     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.5080     Document Type: Article

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