Simple control laws for low-thrust orbit transfers

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1455-1468

  Kluever, Craig A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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EID: 0347654952     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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