Near-optimal solar sail trajectories generated by a genetic algorithm

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 103, Issue PART 1, 2000, Pages 489-505

  Rauwolf, Gerald A ^a   Friedlander, Alan ^a  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 0041400151     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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