Daily repeat-groundtrack Mars orbits

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 114 II, Issue , 2003, Pages 1143-1155

  Noreen, Gary ^a   Kerridge, Stuart ^a   Diehl, Roger ^a   Neelon, Joseph ^a   Ely, Todd ^a   Turner, Andrew E ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RELAY COMMUNICATIONS; RELAY ORBITORS; MARS ORBIT; REPEATING GROUNDTRACKS; SOLAR DAY;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION; ORBITS; SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; PLANETARY LANDERS; PLANETS; SPACE RESEARCH;

ASTRONOMY; ORBITS;

EID: 1542329766     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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3. nd Edition, Microcosm Press, 2001.
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5. Ely, Todd A. and Kathleen C. Howell, Long-Term Evolution of Artificial Satellite Orbits Due to Resonant Tesseral Harmonics, Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 44, No. 2, April-June 1996, pp. 167-190.