Waypoint Constrained Multi-Phase Optimal Guidance of Spacecraft for Soft Lunar Landing

A waypoint constrained multi-phase nonlinear optimal guidance scheme is presented in this paper for the soft landing of a spacecraft on the Lunar surface by using the recently developed computation...

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