Rosetta mission analysis of the landing phase on a comet

AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Bernard, J ^a   Dufour, F ^a   Gaudon, P ^a   Ceolin, T ^b   Kerambrun, S ^b  

^a CNES   (France)

^b CS Systemes d'Information Company   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; PROBES; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; EXOTIC NUCLEI; GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; LANDING PHASE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ROSETTA MISSION; SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS; TERMINAL VELOCITY;

LANDING;

EID: 85088346614     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-4723     Document Type: Conference Paper

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