Design and implementation of contour's phasing orbits

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 114, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 1517-1529

  Dunham, David W ^a   Muhonen, Daniel P ^a   Farquhar, Robert W ^a   Holdridge, Mark ^a   Reynolds, Edward ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAUNCHING; OPTIMIZATION; ROCKET ENGINES; SPACECRAFT; TRAJECTORIES;

HELIOCENTRIC ORBITS; SOLID ROCKET MOTORS (SRM);

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 1542359580     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. J. van der Ha et al., "CONTOUR Phasing Orbits: Attitude Determination & Control Concepts and Flight Results", AAS 03-150, AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Conference, Ponce, Puerto Rico, February 9-12, 2003.
4. R. Olmstead, "Update to Detailed Test Objectives Trajectory", Memorandum A3-Delta FltSys-02-329, Boeing Corp., Huntington Beach, California, April 26, 2002.
5. E. Carranza et al., "Navigating CONTOUR using the Noncoherent Transceiver Technique", AAS 03-204, AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Conference, Ponce, Puerto Rico, February 9-12, 2003.