Relative motion and the geometry of formations in keplerian elliptic orbits

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 953-964

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

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MS 3141 ^*

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; MOTION CONTROL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POSITION MEASUREMENT; SPACE FLIGHT;

ECCENTRICITY; KEPLERIAN ELLIPTIC ORBITS; TSCHAUNER HEMPEL EQUATIONS;

ORBITS;

EID: 34547607869     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.25941     Document Type: Article

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