Satellite scheduling considering maximum observation coverage time and minimum orbital transfer fuel cost

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 220-229

  Zhu, Kai Jian ^a   Li, Jun Feng ^a   Baoyin, He Xi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Optimization; Orbit transfer; Primer vector; Satellite scheduling

Indexed keywords

AFFECTED AREA; DE ALGORITHMS; DISASTER AREAS; FUEL COST; HOHMANN TRANSFER; HYBRID PSO; IMPULSE MANEUVER; IN-ORBIT; LOCAL TIME; MULTIOBJECT; NEW SATELLITES; NON-COPLANAR; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPERATIONAL ORBITS; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; ORBIT DESIGNS; ORBIT OPTIMIZATION; ORBIT TRANSFER; PRIMER VECTOR; PRIMER VECTOR THEORY; RESCUE MISSIONS; SATELLITE SCHEDULING; TIME PERIODS; TRANSFER TRAJECTORY; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

ORBITS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SATELLITES; SPACE FLIGHT; SUN; VECTORS;

ORBITAL TRANSFER;

EID: 70350707771     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.05.029     Document Type: Article

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