Exploiting orbital dynamics for aperture synthesis using distributed satellite systems: Applications to a visible earth imager system

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 102 I, Issue , 1999, Pages 285-301

  Kong, Edmund M C ^a   Miller, David W ^a   Sedwick, Raymond J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

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EID: 0040907531     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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