An improved strategy for maintaining repeat ground tracks at high latitudes

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 105 II, Issue , 2000, Pages 915-924

  Demarest, Peter ^b   Schutz, Bob E ^a  

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

^b NONE

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EID: 0039973968     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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