Cluster flight orbit design method for fractionated spacecraft

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 330-343

  Wang, Jihe ^a   Nakasuka, Shinichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cluster flight orbit design; Design; Flight; Heuristic search methods; Nonlinear programming method; Relative eccentricity and inclination vectors; Spacecraft

Indexed keywords

DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; FLIGHT; FLIGHT ORBIT; FLIGHT SCENARIOS; HEURISTIC SEARCH METHODS; LOW-EARTH ORBIT; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING METHODS; ORBIT DESIGNS; ORBITAL ELEMENT; PASSIVE SAFETY; RELATIVE DISTANCES; RELATIVE MOTION; RELATIVE MOTION MODELS; SPACECRAFT MISSIONS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MODULAR ROBOTS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; ORBITS; ROCKETS; SATELLITES; SPACECRAFT; VECTORS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84865789424     PISSN: 00022667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00022661211255511     Document Type: Article

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