Circular revisit orbits design for responsive mission over a single target

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 127, Issue , 2016, Pages 219-225

  Li, Taibo ^a   Xiang, Junhua ^a   Wang, Zhaokui ^b   Zhang, Yulin ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Circular revisit orbits; Operationally response space; Optimal design; Repeat coverage orbits; The minimum revisit time

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

CONSTRAINT FUNCTIONS; EXISTENCE CONDITIONS; OPERATIONALLY RESPONSE SPACE; OPERATIONALLY RESPONSIVE SPACES; OPTIMAL DESIGN; OPTIMAL DESIGN MODEL; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; THE MINIMUM REVISIT TIME;

ORBITS;

EID: 84973542342     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2016.05.037     Document Type: Article

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