Advanced metrics for optimizing satellite formations performing interferometry missions

AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Parker, Maj Timothy W ^a   Jacques, David R ^a   Wiesel, William E ^a  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; INTERFEROMETRY;

GLOBAL SEARCH TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETRY MISSIONS; LOGICAL SELECTION; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; SATELLITE FORMATIONS; TIME VARIATIONS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 85088180944     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-4740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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