Technique for escape from geosynchronous transfer orbit using a solar sail

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 628-634

  Coverstone, Victoria L ^a   Prussing, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; DRAG; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPACECRAFT; TRAJECTORIES;

SOLAR SAILS;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

EID: 0041743794     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.5091     Document Type: Article

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