Orbit transfer of service vehicle/payload through tether retrieval

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 687-698

  Kumar, K D ^a   Yasaka, T ^a   Sasaki, T ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROPELLANTS; SATELLITES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE STATIONS; TETHERLINES; VECTORS;

SERVICE VEHICLES (SV); TETHERED SYSTEMS;

ORBITS;

EID: 0742320682     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2003.06.007     Document Type: Article

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