Anomalous orbital-energy changes observed during spacecraft flybys of Earth

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Anderson, John D ^a   Campbell, James K ^a   Ekelund, John E ^a   Ellis, Jordan ^a   Jordan, James F ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); SPACECRAFT; VELOCITY CONTROL;

GALILEO; GEOCENTRIC LATITUDES; ROSETTA FLYBY; TOTAL ORBITAL ENERGY; VELOCITY VECTORS;

ORBITS;

EID: 40849135892     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.091102     Document Type: Article

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