Optimal planning for tetrahedral formations near elliptical orbits

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1837-1851

  Zanon, Darren J ^a   Campbell, Mark E ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LINEARIZATION; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH;

ELLIPTICAL ORBITS (EO); OPTIMAL PLANNING; SPLINE APPROXIMATION; TETRAHEDRAL FORMATIONS;

ORBITS;

EID: 19944402920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-5127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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