Genesis Earth return: Refined strategies and flight experience

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 120, Issue I, 2005, Pages 249-268

  Williams, Kenneth E ^a   Lewis, George D ^a   Wilson, Roby S ^a   Helfrich, Clifford E ^a   Potts, Christopher L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MID-AIR RECOVERY; PARAFOILS; SOLAR WIND;

AIRFOILS; EARTH (PLANET); SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT; TRAJECTORIES;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 26944468598     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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