Spheres: A testbed for long duration satellite formation flying in micro-gravity conditions

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 105 I, Issue , 2000, Pages 167-179

  Miller, D ^a   Saenz Otero, A ^a   Wertz, J ^b   Chen, A ^b   Berkowski, G ^b   Brodel, C ^b   Carlson, S ^b   Carpenter, D ^b   Chen, S ^b   Cheng, S ^b   Feller, D ^b   Jackson, S ^b   Pitts, B ^b   Perez, F ^b   Szuminski, J ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

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