Mission Functionality for Deflecting Earth-Crossing Asteroids/Comets

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 734-742

  Park, Sang Young ^a   Mazanek, Daniel D ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; LASER ABLATION; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; ORBITS; SPACE RESEARCH;

SPACE MISSION;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0141973382     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.5128     Document Type: Article

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