Formation design and geometry for Keplerian elliptic orbits with arbitrary eccentricity

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 124 I, Issue , 2006, Pages 951-968

  Sengupta, Prasenjit ^a,b   Vadali, Srinivas R ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b AAS ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR REFERENCE ORBITS; ECCENTRICITY; KEPLERIAN ELLIPTIC ORBITS; LINEARIZED RELATIVE MOTION;

GEOMETRY; MOTION ESTIMATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SPACE FLIGHT;

ORBITS;

EID: 34247098412     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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