Populating and maintaining cluster constellations in low-earth orbit

35th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Pollard, James E ^a   George Chao, C C ^a   Janson, Siegfried W ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE CONTROL; PROPULSION; SHIP PROPULSION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

CLUSTER GEOMETRIES; ECCENTRIC ORBITS; FORMATION KEEPING; LOW EARTH ORBITS; PERTURBING FORCES; RELATIVE POSITIONS; VELOCITY UNCERTAINTY; VELOCITY VECTORS;

ORBITS;

EID: 84963787352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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