Optimal low thrust trajectories to the moon

SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 144-170

  Betts, John T ^a   Erb, Sven O ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optimal control; Orbit transfer; Sparse nonlinear programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542283034     PISSN: 15360040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1111111102409080     Document Type: Article

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