Minimum energy trajectories for Techsat 21 earth orbiting clusters

AIAA Space 2001 Conference and Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Kong, Edmund M C ^a   Miller, David W ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

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EID: 84894343591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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