Fuel optimal rendezvous including a radial constraint

Fuel-optimal rendezvous in orbit is examined using thrust-impulses and coasting arcs. Necessary conditions for the optimality of fuel-optimal rendezvous with and without radial constraints are derived. These conditions are then used to verify the optimality of trajectories obtained from a parameter-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vasudevan, Gopal
Other Authors: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/94484