Grace mission design: Impact of uncertainties in disturbance environment and satellite force models

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 105 II, Issue , 2000, Pages 967-986

  Mazanek, Daniel D ^a   Kumar, Renjith R ^b   Seywald, Hans ^b   Qu, Min ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b ANALYTICAL SERVICES AND MATERIALS INC   (United States)

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EID: 0037657157     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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