Low-thrust variable-specific-impulse transfers and guidance to unstable periodic orbits

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 280-290

  Senent, Juan ^a,c   Ocampo, Cesar ^a,c   Capella, Antonio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; EARTH (PLANET); LINEARIZATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MOON; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; STATE FEEDBACK;

FINITE-BURN PROPULSION SYSTEMS; SINUSOIDAL PERTURBATIONS; SUN-EARTH/MOON SYSTEM; UNSTABLE PERIODIC ORBITS;

ORBITS;

EID: 15744382908     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.6398     Document Type: Article

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