Rapid Near-Optimal Aerospace Plane Trajectory Generation and Guidance

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Effort was directed toward the problems of the real time trajectory optimization and guidance law development for the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) applications. In particular, singular perturbation methods were used to develop guidance algorithms suitable for onboard, real time implementation. The progress made in this research effort is reported. Calise, A. J. and Corban, J. E. and Markopoulos