Analysis of a class of earth-mars cycler trajectories

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 622-628

  McConaghy, T Troy ^a,c   Longuski, James M ^a,c   Byrnes, Dennis V ^b,d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SCHOOL OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (United States)

^d Navigation and Mission Design Section   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MANEUVERABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANETS; PROPELLANTS; SOLAR SYSTEM; VECTORS; VELOCITY;

APHELION RADIUS; EARTH-MARS CYCLER TRAJECTORIES; INTERPLANETARY TRANSPORT CYCLES; POSITION VECTORS;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 4344610711     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.11939     Document Type: Conference Paper

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