Analysis and damping of lateral vibrations in a linear tethered interferometer

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 114 III, Issue , 2003, Pages 1749-1765

  Lorenzini, Enrico C ^a   Bombardelli, Claudio ^b   Quadrelli, Marco B ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGIAN DENSITY FUNCTION; OPTICAL PATH DELAY (OPD);

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INTERFEROMETERS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MANEUVERABILITY; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; TETHERLINES;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 1542329741     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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