Flight-like ground demonstration of precision formation flying spacecraft

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6693, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Scharf, Daniel P ^a   Hadaegh, Fred Y ^a   Keim, Jason A ^a   Benowitz, Edward G ^a   Lawson, Peter R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Formation infrastructure; Ground demonstration; Precision formation flying; Robotic testbed

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

FORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE; GROUND DEMONSTRATION; PRECISION FORMATION FLYING; ROBOTIC TESTBED;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 42149087795     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.735125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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