Preliminary design of earth-mars cyclers using solar sails

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 132-137

  Stevens, Robert ^a,b   Ross, I Michael ^a,b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Aeronautics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EARTH (PLANET); GRAVITATION; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS;

ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT; CYCLER TRAJECTORIES; PSEUDOSPECTRAL KNOTS (PSK); SOLAR SAILS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 14544304694     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.2947     Document Type: Article

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