Equilibrium-to-equilibrium maneuvers of flexible electrodynamic tethers in equatorial orbits

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 3018-3033

  Mankala, Kalyan K ^a   Agrawal, Sunil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRODYNAMICS; GRAVITATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ORBITS; RESISTORS; SATELLITES; VECTORS;

ANGULAR VELOCITY; EQUATORIAL ORBITS; FLEXIBLE TETHERS; RIGID PENDULUMS;

TETHERLINES;

EID: 19944371747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-5342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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