Optimal low-thrust orbital transfers around a rotating non-spherical body

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 119, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 2571-2586

  Whiffen, Gregory J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC EXPANSIONS; LOW-THRUST ASTEROID PROBLEM; SOLAR-ELECTRIC PROPULSION; STATIC DYNAMIC CONTROL (SDC); GRAVITY FIELDS; ORBITAL OPERATIONS; POINT MASS MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PLANETS; GRAVITATION; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

ORBITAL TRANSFER;

EID: 23844524126     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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