Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking Technologies - Status and Prospects

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5088, Issue , 2003, Pages 20-30

  Wertz, James R ^a   Bell, Robert ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Autonomous Navigation; Autonomous Spacecraft; Orbit Control; Rendezvous and Docking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DOCKING; NAVIGATION; ORBITS; SPACECRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS RENDEZVOUS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 0242635509     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.498121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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