A targeting strategy for the deployment of a tethered satellite system

IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications)

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 626-644

  Barkow, B ^a   Steindl, A ^a   Troger, Hans ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Deployment; Optimal control; Space flight dynamics; Tethered satellite; Transient chaos

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; SATELLITES; SPACE FLIGHT; TETHERLINES;

SPACE FLIGHT DYNAMICS; SUBSATELLITE DEPLOYMENT; TETHERED SATELLITE; TRANSIENT CHAOS;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 26844494965     PISSN: 02724960     EISSN: 14643634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imamat/hxh083     Document Type: Article

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