Preliminary design of Earth-Mars cyclers using solar sails

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 114 III, Issue , 2003, Pages 2075-2087

  Stevens, Robert ^a   Ross, I Michael ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARS; SOLAR SAILS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS; PROPELLANTS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 1542754637     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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