Cluster planning and control for spacecraft formations

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 119, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 2395-2413

  Campbell, Mark E ^a   Zanon, Darren ^a   Kulkarni, Jayant ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER PLANNING; EARTH TRAILING ORBITS; FLEET LEVELS; NON-CIRCULAR ORBITS; LINEAR PROGRAMS (LP); ORBITAL CONDITIONS; ORBITAL DYNAMICS;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC PROPULSION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; ORBITS; SATELLITES; SUN; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; HAMILTONIANS; MOTION CONTROL; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 23844465521     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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