Fully-propulsive Mars atmospheric transit strategies for high-mass payload missions

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Marsh, Christopher L ^a   Braun, Robert D ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROASSIST; CONTROL LAWS; ENTRY , DESCENT , AND LANDINGS; HEAT RATE; PROPELLANT MASS; SPACECRAFT DESIGN; THRUST TRAJECTORY DESIGN;

SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

PROPELLANTS;

EID: 70349151883     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2009.4839346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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