Design of Earth-Mars transfer trajectories using evolutionary-branching technique

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 705-720

  Vasile, Massimiliano ^a,b   Summerer, Leopold ^a   De Pascale, Paolo ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY-BRANCHING TECHNIQUE; GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT; MARS EXPLORATION; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING (SQP);

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC PROPULSION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 14844360708     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2004.12.002     Document Type: Article

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