Solar sail orbit operations at asteroids

Astrodynamics Specialist Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 465-474

  Morrow, Esther ^a   Scheeres, D J ^b   Lubin, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROIDS; ASTROPHYSICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ORBITS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

ASTEROID SURFACE; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE MISSIONS; ORBIT OPERATIONS; ORBITAL MECHANICS; SAIL ATTITUDE; SOLAR SAIL SPACECRAFT;

SOLAR SAILS;

EID: 84894488755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2000-4420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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