Postmission disposal options for upper stages

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3116, Issue , 1997, Pages 219-232

  Eichler, Peter ^a   Reynolds, Robert C ^a   Zhang, Jingchang ^a   Bade, Anette ^a   Jackson, A A ^a   Johnson, Nicholas L ^b   McNamara, Robert ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lifetime reduction; Orbital debris; Postmission disposal; Re orbit; Upper stages

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEBRIS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; INSTRUMENTS; NASA; ORBITS; PROPULSION; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE PLATFORMS; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

LIFETIME REDUCTION; ORBITAL DEBRIS; POSTMISSION DISPOSAL; RE-ORBIT; UPPER STAGES;

SPACE DEBRIS;

EID: 0342980051     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.293331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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