Characteristics of transfers to and captures at Europa

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 124 II, Issue , 2006, Pages 1459-1477

  Lam, Try ^a,b   Hirani, Anil N ^c   Kangas, Julie A ^a,b  

^a Navigation and Control Section   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL LOW THRUST TRANSFERS; POTENTIAL SCIENCE ORBITS; THRUST ACCELERATIONS; TRANSFER RESONANCE;

ACCELERATION; ORBITS; RESONANCE; TARGET TRACKING;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247162277     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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