Meet the cluster orbits with perturbations of Keplerian elements (COWPOKE) equations

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 114 I, Issue , 2003, Pages 573-594

  Sabol, Chris ^a   McLaughlin, Craig A ^b   Kim Luu, K ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ORBITS; KEPLERIAN ELEMENTS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SATELLITES; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; SPACECRAFT;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 1542330034     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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