Progress in calculating satellite drag coefficients from orbital measurements

Advanced Measurement and Ground Testing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  Moe, Kenneth ^a   Moe, Mildred M ^b  

^a Space and Missile Systems Center ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; DRAG; DRAG COEFFICIENT; ENERGY DISSIPATION; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; MOLECULES; SATELLITES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCOMMODATION COEFFICIENTS; CONTAMINATED SURFACES; DRAG COEFFICIENT MODELS; GAS-SURFACE INTERACTION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SATELLITE DRAG COEFFICIENTS; SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERY; TRANSITIONAL REGIMES;

ORBITS;

EID: 84983175094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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