Safe trajectories for autonomous rendezvous of spacecraft

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1478-1489

  Breger, Louis ^a,b   How, Jonathan P ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; SPACE FLIGHT; TRAJECTORIES;

AUTONOMOUS RENDEZVOUS; AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; NOMINAL TRAJECTORY; ON-LINE GENERATION; PROBLEM CONSTRAINTS; SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 53349089249     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.29590     Document Type: Article

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