Optimal deployment/retrieval of a tethered formation spinning in the orbital plane

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 638-650

  Williams, Paul ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANEUVERABILITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; TRAJECTORIES;

INELASTIC TETHERS; PHYSICAL ARRANGEMENT; SPIN CONDITIONS; SPIN RATE;

TETHERLINES;

EID: 33745742411     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.17093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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