Skip entry trajectory planning and guidance

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1210-1219

  Brunner, Christopher W ^a,b   Lu, Ping ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 2271 Howe Hall ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); LUNAR MISSIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DISPERSION SIMULATIONS; HIGH-ACCURACY; LUNAR RETURNS; PREDICTOR-CORRECTOR METHODS; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; SKIP ENTRIES; THREE DEGREE OF FREEDOMS; TRAJECTORY PLANNING;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 53349171004     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.35055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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