Orbital Rendezvous via a General Nonsingular Method
- 1 January 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
- Vol. 45 (1) , 138-152
Abstract
This paper develops a general method to execute orbital rendezvous in continuation of previous work, where a spacecraft’s orbit was represented using the angular momentum and eccentricity vectors o...Keywords
Funding Information
- Cornell University
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