Rendezvous Maneuvers of Multiple Spacecraft Using Differential Drag Under J2 Perturbation

This research was partially supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This research was performed while R. Bevilacqua was holding a National Research Council Research Associateship Award at the Spacecraft Robotics Laboratory of the Naval Postgraduate School.

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