Venus and Mars gravity-assist trajectories to Jupiter using nuclear electric propulsion

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 120, Issue I, 2005, Pages 169-184

  Parcher, Daniel W ^a   Sims, Jon A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY-ASSISTED TRAJECTORIES; NUCLEAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION; VENUS;

ELECTRIC PROPULSION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; TRAJECTORIES;

PLANETS;

EID: 26944466206     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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