The magellan aerobraking experiment: Attitude control simulation and preliminary flight results

Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, 1993

Volumn , Issue , 1993, Pages 1148-1158

  Carpenter, Anita S ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBRAKING; AERODYNAMIC DRAG; ATTITUDE CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; SPACECRAFT;

CONTROL SCHEMES; CONTROL SIMULATION; DYNAMICS AND CONTROL; HIGHLY ELLIPTICAL ORBITS; NEAR-CIRCULAR ORBITS; ORBITAL VELOCITIES; RISK APPROACHES; THREE-AXIS;

ORBITS;

EID: 84959165437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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