Establishment by means of analysis, of conditions of tangency, intersection, and noncontact between 2 coplanar confocal conic orbits in terms of orbit elements: semimajor axis, linear eccentricity, and orientation angle; conditions are used to determine elements of cotangential transfer ellipses between 2 terminal orbits; analytical and geometrical methods of solution are formulated.
Study of cotangential, elliptical transfer orbits in space flight
J Aerospace Sciences
Journal of Aerospace Sciences ; 28 , n 5
1961
7 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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