Terrestrial planet sample return missions using solar sail propulsion

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 542, 2003, Pages 377-384

  Hughes, Gareth W ^a   Macdonald, Malcolm ^a   McInnes, Colin R ^a   Atzei, Alessandro ^b   Falkner, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LAUNCHING; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; TRAJECTORIES;

LAUNCH VEHICLES; SOLAR SAILS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 0842332805     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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