The Flower Constellations visualization and analysis tool

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 601-606

  Bruccoleri, Christian ^a   Mortari, Daniele ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; ORBITS; ROTATING MACHINERY; SPACE RESEARCH; TRAJECTORIES; VISUALIZATION;

FLOWER CONSTELLATIONS; RELATIVE TRAJECTORY; ROTATING REFERENCE FRAME; SATELLITE DESIGN;

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES;

EID: 33751552215     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2005.1559350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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