Performance trades for mars pinpoint landing

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wolf, Aron A ^a   Tooley, Jeff ^a   Ploen, Scott ^a   Ivanov, Mark ^a   Acikmese, Behcet ^a   Gromov, Konstantin ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; HYPERSONIC ENTRY; VEHICLE AERODYNAMICS; WIND DRIFT;

ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; PLANETARY LANDERS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; WIND EFFECTS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34047135687     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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