Spacecraft rendezvous on small relative inclination orbits using tethers

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1047-1060

  Williams, Paul ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TETHERLINES; TRAJECTORIES;

INCLINATION ORBITS; ORBITAL PLANES; SYSTEM MASS DISTRIBUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMICS;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 29544447414     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.11826     Document Type: Article

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