Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10680892 | Acta Astronautica | 2005 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Minimum propellant mass trajectory. If C=1, the resulting minimum propellant mass trajectory has the following characteristics: (a) the thrust magnitude has a bang-zero-bang profile; (b) for the powered subarcs, the thrust direction is tangent to the flight path at all times.
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Authors
A. Miele, T. Wang, P.N. Williams,