A-B-Cs of sun-synchronous orbit mission design

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 119, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 85-103

  Boain, Ronald J ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Mission and System Architecture Section   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL FORCE; SATELLITE DESIGN; SUN-SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT; THERMAL DESIGN; MISSION PARAMETERS; ORBIT PARAMETERS; ORBITAL RATE; SUN-SYNCHRONOUS ORBITS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; GRAVITATION; ORBITS; SATELLITES; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; SUN; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH SCIENCES; SYNCHRONIZATION;

SPACE RESEARCH; ORBITS;

EID: 23844514420     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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