The flower constellations

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 115, Issue , 2003, Pages 269-290

  Mortari, Daniele ^a   Wilkins, Matthew P ^a   Bruccoleri, Christian ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTELLATIONS; GROUND TRACKS;

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 1542439269     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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