Flower constellation of orbiters for martian communication

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  De Sanctis, Mauro ^a   Rossi, Tommaso ^a   Lucente, Marco ^a   Ruggieri, Marina ^a   Mortari, Daniele ^b   Izzo, Dario ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ORBITS; PLANETARY LANDERS; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH;

FLOWER CONSTELLATION; ORBITAL INFRASTRUCTURE; ORBITERS; ROVERS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548733165     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2007.352713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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