Solar-sail-based stopover cyclers for cargo transportation missions

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 822-830

  Mengali, Giovanni ^a,b,c   Quarta, Alessandro A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (Italy)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARGO HANDLING; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; OPTICAL TESTING; ORBITS; PROPELLANTS; SPACE RESEARCH;

CARGO TRANSPORTATION; HUMAN PLANETARY MISSIONS; STOPOVER CYCLERS;

SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

EID: 34548340724     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.24423     Document Type: Article

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