System design issuesi of formation-flying spacecraft

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue , 2003, Pages 2587-2597

  Balaji, Shankar Kumar ^a   Tatnall, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL METHODS; CLUSTER STABILITY; FORMATION FLYING; FORMATION FLYING SPACECRAFT; PERTURBATIVE FORCES; SOLAR RADIATION PRESSURE; SPACECRAFT DESIGN; STATION KEEPING;

DRAG; SUN; TRAJECTORIES;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 84879375499     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2003.1235185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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