Design and maintenance of low-earth repeat-groundtrack successive-coverage orbits

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 686-691

  Fu, Xiaofeng ^a,b   Wu, Meiping ^a,b   Tang, Yi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b College of Mechatronics Engineering and Automation ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; MAINTENANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC DRAG; GROUND-TRACK; LOW EARTH ORBITS; NON-SPHERICAL; ORBIT MAINTENANCE;

ORBITS;

EID: 84860362574     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.54780     Document Type: Article

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