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Impulsive Feedback Control to Establish Specific Mean Orbit Elements of Spacecraft Formations

Hanspeter Schaub

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1003

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Kyle T. Alfriend

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3141

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Published Online:23 May 2012https://doi.org/10.2514/2.4774

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