A review of geomagnetic cutoff rigidities for earth-orbiting spacecraft

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2012-2020

  Smart, D F ^a   Shea, M A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth orbiting spacecraft; Geomagnetic cutoff rigidition; Magnetic field; Trajectory tracing

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); MAGNETOSPHERE; ORBITS; TRAJECTORIES;

EARTH-ORBITING SPACECRAFT; GEOMAGNETIC CUTOFF RIGIDITION; TRAJECTORY TRACING;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 27844496108     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2004.09.015     Document Type: Article

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