TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X formation acquisition - Analysis and flight results

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 140, Issue , 2011, Pages 2065-2080

  Kahle, Ralph ^a   Schlepp, Benjamin ^a   Meissner, Florian ^a   Kirschner, Michael ^a   Kiehling, Reinhard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PROCESS; ACQUISITION STRATEGIES; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; COLLISION ASSESSMENT; DEBRIS AVOIDANCE; FORMATION RECONFIGURATIONS; INSTRUMENT OPERATION; OPERATIONAL CONSTRAINTS; ORBIT EVOLUTION; TANDEM-X; TARGET ORBITS; TERRASAR-X; VELOCITY INCREMENTS;

BUDGET CONTROL; MECHANICS; SATELLITES; SPACE DEBRIS; SPACE FLIGHT;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 80053417483     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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