Realistic earth escape strategies for solar sailing

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 315-323

  Macdonald, Malcolm ^a,b   McInnes, Colin R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; GAIN CONTROL; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; ORBITS; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE RESEARCH;

LUNAR FLYBY; PLANETARY ESCAPE MISSION; SOLAR SAILING;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 15744362471     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.5165     Document Type: Article

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