Heliocentric solar sail orbit transfers with locally optimal control laws

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 273-276

  Macdonald, Malcolm ^a,d   McInnes, Colin R ^b,e,f   Dachwald, Bernd ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Pvt Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United Kingdom)

^f AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SOLAR ENERGY;

NEUROCONTROLLERS; OPTIMAL CONTROL LAWS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

ORBITAL TRANSFER;

EID: 33947186814     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.17297     Document Type: Article

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