Electric propulsion and controller design for drag-free spacecraft operation

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1303-1315

  Marchetti, Paul ^a,b,c   Blandino, John J ^a,b   Demetriou, Michael A ^a  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MS 11 B

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE CONTROL; DRAG; NASA; ORBITS; PROPELLANTS; SPACE FLIGHT;

COLLOID THRUSTERS; CONTROL ACTUATORS; CONTROLLER DESIGNS; CONTROLLER PERFORMANCE; DRAG-FREE SPACECRAFTS; GLOBAL POSITIONING; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; THERMOSPHERIC WINDS;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 57349175054     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.36307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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