Minimum transfer times for nonperfectly reflecting solar sailcraft

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 693-695

  Dachwald, Bernd ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Institute of Space Simulation   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COATINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; TRAJECTORIES; VECTORS;

EVOLUTIONARY NEUROCONTROLLERS (ENC); IDEAL REFLECTION (IR); SOLAR RADIATION PRESSURE (SRP); SOLAR SAILCRAFTS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 4344662577     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.6279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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