Orbit maintenance of a lunar polar orbiter

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 46, Issue 11-12, 1998, Pages 1605-1611

  Knežević, Zoran ^a   Milani, Andrea ^b  

^a ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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EID: 0042208922     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0032-0633(98)00021-x     Document Type: Article

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