Coupled Librational and Orbital Motions of a Large-Scale Spacecraft

Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 152, 2003, Pages 61-67

  Takeichi, Noboru ^a   Natori, M C ^b   Okuizumi, Nobukatsu ^b   Higuchi, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attitude Motion; Coupling; Large Scale Spacecraft; Orbital Motion

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AVIATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SPACE RESEARCH;

ORBITAL MOTION;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0142063428     PISSN: 05493811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2322/tjsass.46.61     Document Type: Article

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