Solar-system escape trajectories using solar sails

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 684-687

  Sharma, Deepti N ^a,b   Scheeres, D J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; GRAPH THEORY; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS; SPACECRAFT; TRAJECTORIES;

GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT; ORBIT ENERGY; SEMIMAJOR AXIS; SOLAR SAIL ORIENTATIONS;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 4344660617     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.2354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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