Precise formation flying control of multiple spacecraft using carrier-phase differential GPS

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 105 I, Issue , 2000, Pages 151-165

  Inalhan, Gokhan ^a   Busse, Franz D ^a   How, Jonathan P ^a  

^a 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

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EID: 0041160911     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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