Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 756037, 14 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/756037
Research Article

Analysis of Electric Propulsion System for Exploration of Saturn

Carlos Renato Huaura Solórzano,1 Antonio Fernando Bertachini de Almeida Prado,1 and Alexander Alexandrovich Sukhanov2

1Division of Space Mechanics and Control, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), 12227010 São José dos Campos, Brazil
2Flight Dynamics and Data Processing Division, Space Research Institute (IKI), 117997 Moscow, Russia

Received 3 November 2008; Revised 11 May 2009; Accepted 24 June 2009

Academic Editor: Dane Quinn

Copyright © 2009 Carlos Renato Huaura Solórzano et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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