Power-limited transfers between two coplanar conics, under continuous Keplerian thrust

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 93 PART 2, Issue , 1996, Pages 1529-1548

  Markopoulos, Nikos ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

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EID: 3242821664     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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