Hovering control of a solar sail gravity tractor spacecraft for asteroid deflection

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 127 PART 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 673-696

  Wie, Bong ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID DEFLECTIONS; ASTEROID SURFACES; ION ENGINES; LIFE TIMES; LIGHTWEIGHT REFLECTORS; MONOLITHIC BODIES; NEAR EARTHS; ROCKET PLUMES; RUBBLE PILES; SOLAR SAILS; SUN ANGLES;

ASTEROIDS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; LUTETIUM; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL); TRACTORS (TRUCK);

MECHANICS;

EID: 55549122671     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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