New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission: Design and simulation of the Pluto-Charon encounter

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 421-429

  Guo, Yanping ^a   Farquhar, Robert W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; PLANETS; SPACE RESEARCH; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRAJECTORIES;

ENERGETIC PARTICLES; INFRARED IMAGERS; LAUNCH VEHICLE; SOLAR OCCULTATION;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 9944223698     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2004.05.076     Document Type: Article

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