Shells of multiple thrust in power-limited rendezvous of a spacecraft

Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems Series B: Application and Algorithm

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 167-197

  Carter, Thomas E ^a   Pardis, Cyrus J ^b  

^a EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Admissible controls; Bounded thrust; Chatter; Optimization; Rendezvous; Space trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142511221     PISSN: 14928760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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