The SUMO/FREND project: Technology development for autonomous grapple of geosynchronous satellites

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 128, Issue , 2007, Pages 895-909

  Creamer, Glenn ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS GRAPPLE; GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES; POSE SENSORS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PROXIMITY INDICATORS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

SATELLITES;

EID: 38549119412     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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