Design and implementation of CONTOUR's phasing orbits

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 114 III, Issue , 2003, Pages 1535-1547

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

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASING ORBITS; SOLID ROCKET MOTOR (SRM);

LAUNCHING; ORBITS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 1542359670     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.