Tethered planetary capture maneuvers

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 603-613

  Williams, Paul ^a,b   Blanksby, Chris ^a,b   Trivailo, Pavel ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR CORRECTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MANEUVERABILITY; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS; PLANETARY LANDERS; SOLAR SYSTEM; TORQUE; TRAJECTORIES; VECTORS;

CONTROL TENSION; DESTINATION PLANETS; ELLIPTICAL ORBITS; PAYLOAD TRANSFER;

TETHERLINES;

EID: 4344699284     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.1024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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