Safe trajectories for autonomous rendezvous of spacecraft

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2006

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 4068-4084

  Breger, Louis ^a   How, Jonathan P ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; OPTIMIZATION; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; SPACECRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT RENDEZVOUS; FUEL OPTIMIZED RENDEZVOUS TRAJECTORIES; SPACE MISSIONS; TRAJECTORY DESIGN TECHNIQUES;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 33845782416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-6584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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