Optimal trade studies of interplanetary electric propulsion missions

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 657-667

  Mengali, Giovanni ^a   Quarta, Alessandro A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mission analysis; Solar electric propulsion; Solar system exploration; Trajectory optimization

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; FLOW RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MISSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION; SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION; TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 43849092666     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2008.01.037     Document Type: Article

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