Design of autonomous foldable docking mechanism for small space vehicles

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009

Volumn 7, Issue PART B, 2010, Pages 819-828

  Wiens, Gloria J ^a   Umsrithong, Anake ^a   Miller, Shawn ^a   Koka, Aneesh ^a   Vitello, Travis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAMS SOFTWARE; ATTITUDE STABILIZATION; AUTONOMOUS DOCKING; AUTONOMOUS RENDEZVOUS; CONTROL CAPABILITIES; COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS; DOCKING MECHANISMS; PASSIVE SATELLITES; PICOSATELLITE; SATELLITE SYSTEM; SMALL SATELLITES; SPACE ASSETS; SPACE INDUSTRY; SPACE VEHICLES;

DOCKING; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; SATELLITES; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; VEHICLES;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 77953792888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2009-87678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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