Impact of mission constraints on optimal flight trajectories for the lifting body x-38

24th Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 424-432

  Burkhardt, Johannes ^a   Gäßin, Michael ^a   Schöttlet, Ulrich M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE BODIES; NASA; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

BOUNDARY CONSTRAINTS; CONTROL EFFORT; FLIGHT PATH OPTIMIZATION; FLIGHT TRAJECTORY; LIFTING BODIES; MISSION CONSTRAINTS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING METHODS; TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION;

FLIGHT PATHS;

EID: 84894411377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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