Optimization of Low-Thrust Limited-Power Trajectories in a Noncentral Gravity Field—Transfers between Orbits with Small Eccentricities

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Figure 9: Optimization of Low-Thrust Limited-Power Trajectories in a Noncentral Gravity Field—Transfers between Orbits with Small Eccentricities 