Minimum-Time Orbital Phasing Maneuvers

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 934-941

  Hall, Christopher D ^a,b   Collazo Perez, Victor ^a,c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c Aerospace and Ocean Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INVARIANCE; LINEAR EQUATIONS; ORBITAL TRANSFER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACECRAFT; TRAJECTORIES;

ORBITAL PHASING;

MANEUVERABILITY;

EID: 0344083633     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.6921     Document Type: Article

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