Differential drag as a means of spacecraft formation control

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kumar, Balaji Shankar ^a   Ng, Alfred ^a   Yoshihara, Keisuke ^a   De Ruiter, Anton ^a  

^a CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; ORBITS; SPACECRAFT; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DIFFERENTIAL DRAG; NANO-SATELLITE FORMATION CONTROL; SPACECRAFT FORMATION CONTROL;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548732579     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2007.352790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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