Hyper-X post-flight-trajectory reconstruction

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-115

  Karlgaard, Christopher D ^a,d   Tartabini, Paul V ^b,d,e   Blanchard, Robert C ^c,d,f   Kirsch, Michael ^a,c,d,f   Toniolo, Matthew D ^a  

^a ANALYTICAL MECHANICS ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Exploration Concepts Branch

^f Joint Institute for the Advancement of Flight Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; KALMAN FILTERING; SPACE APPLICATIONS; TRAJECTORIES;

BEST-ESTIMATED TRAJECTORY; FLIGHT-TEST DATA; HYPER-X VEHICLES; SYSTEMATIC ERROR SOURCES;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 33644756667     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.12733     Document Type: Article

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