Optimizing low-thrust and gravity assist maneuvers to design interplanetary trajectories

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-35

  Vasile, Massimiliano ^a   Bernelli Zazzera, Franco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPULSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MANEUVERABILITY; OPTIMIZATION; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; TRAJECTORIES;

GRAVITY ASSIST MANEUVERS; LOW THRUST PROPULSION; OPTIMAL INTERPLANETARY TRAJECTORIES; SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION;

ASTRONOMY; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

FINITE ELEMENTS IN TIME; FULL THREE-DIMENSIONAL; GRAVITY ASSIST MANEUVERS; GRAVITY MANEUVERS; INTERPLANETARY TRAJECTORY; LOW-THRUST PROPULSION; PARAMETRIC APPROACH; PLANET MERCURY;

EID: 1242286086     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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