Fuel equalized retargeting for separated spacecraft interferometry

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 1998, Pages 1580-1584

  Beard, Randal W ^a   McLain, Timothy W ^a   Hadaegh, Fred Y ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-LOOP; DEEP SPACE; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPEN-LOOP; RIGID BODY; SECOND-ORDER DYNAMICS; SEPARATED SPACECRAFT INTERFEROMETRY; SPACECRAFT CONSTELLATIONS;

FUELS; NASA; ROTATION; SPACE FLIGHT;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 84881365301     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.1998.707272     Document Type: Conference Paper

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