An optimal guidance law for planetary landing

1997 Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 1376-1381

  D’Souza, Christopher N ^a  

^a CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; LANDING;

LANDING POINTS; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL GUIDANCE LAW; PLANETARY LANDING; QUARTIC EQUATION; SECOND VARIATION; TWO POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

LUNAR LANDING;

EID: 84959091751     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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