Indirect optimization method for impulsive transfers

Discrete approximations to optimal trajectories using direct transcription and nonlinear programming

Paul J. Enright, Bruce A. Conway · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics · 1992 · 380 citations

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Primer vector on fixed-time impulsive trajectories.

P. M. Lion, Morris Handelsman · AIAA Journal · 1968 · 199 citations

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Optimal multiple-impulse time-fixed rendezvous between circular orbits

John E. Prussing, Jeng-Hua Chiu · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics · 1986 · 180 citations

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