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Semi-analytical terminal and automatic approach and landing trajectory planners for unpowered reusable launch vehicle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] A new guidance scheme for the terminal area energy management (TAEM) phase of an unpowered reusable launch vehicle (RLV) has been developed. The main ...
A direct approach for computationally efficient low-thrust trajectory optimization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This study uses a direct optimization technique to find optimized low-thrust trajectories for spacecraft that minimize fuel consumption. By using analytic orbital averaging, a spacecraft's equations of motion are simplified ...