Orbit design for phase I and II of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 118, Issue , 2004, Pages 255-274

  Hughes, Steven P ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTER-SPACECRAFT SEPARATION; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; MULTISCALE MISSION; PLASMA PROCESSES;

ASTRONOMY; CHARGED PARTICLES; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHASE SEPARATION; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SPACECRAFT;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 23744468438     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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