Overview of the development for a suite of low-thrust trajectory analysis tools

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, 2006

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1834-1841

  Kos, Larry D ^a,c,d   Polsgrove, Tara ^a,c   Hopkins, Randall C ^a,c   Thomas, Dan ^a,c   Sims, Jon A ^b,d,e  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Advanced Concepts Office   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Mail Stop 301 140L ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THRUST TRAJECTORIES; TRAJECTORY ANALYSTS;

PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPACE RESEARCH; TRAJECTORIES;

SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT;

EID: 33846031419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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