Virtual exploration by computing global families of trajectories with supercomputers

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 120, Issue II, 2005, Pages 1855-1873

  Anderson, Rodney L ^a   Lo, Martin W ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVARIANT MANIFOLDS; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; VIRTUAL EXPLORATION;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE RESEARCH; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ORBITS;

EID: 26944449630     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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