Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Optimal Impulsive Rendezvous with Linear Equations of Motion

Primer vector on fixed-time impulsive trajectories.

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

Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Marine Engineering +17

Optimal two- and three-impulse fixed-time rendezvous in the vicinityof a circular orbit

John E. Prussing · AIAA Journal · 1970 · 124 citations

Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Astrodynamics +13

Optimal four-impulse fixed-time rendezvous in the vicinity of a circular orbit.

John E. Prussing · AIAA Journal · 1969 · 118 citations

Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Astrodynamics +10

Optimization, a Moment Problem, and Nonlinear Programming

Lucien W. Neustadt · Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Series A Control · 1964 · 115 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Optimization +6

Optimal impulsive space trajectories based on linear equations

T. E. Carter · Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications · 1991 · 95 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Differential Equations +11