India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 initial phase orbit determination

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 67, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 784-792

  Vighnesam, N V ^a   Sonney, Anatta ^a   Gopinath, N S ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Chandrayaan 1; Orbit accuracy; Orbit computation; Satellite tracking

Indexed keywords

CHANDRAYAAN-1; CIRCULAR ORBIT; MISSION PLANNING; MOON MISSION; NORMAL PHASE; OPERATIONAL ORBITS; ORBIT ACCURACY; ORBIT DETERMINATION; ORBIT DETERMINATION SYSTEM; PRECISE ORBIT DETERMINATION; SATELLITE TRACKING; SCIENCE DATA PROCESSING; SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION; TRACKING DATA; TRACKING STATION;

DATA PROCESSING; ORBITS; SPACECRAFT;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

EID: 78049435263     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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