Various methods are presented for estimating flight time for vehicles which fly optimum trajectory; realistic example is considered in order to display inherent accuracy of each of these methods; numerical integration methods are found to be most accurate; simple formulas are derived for case where less accurate estimate is acceptable; all of these methods require less computation than would be required in order to solve overall optimization problem; thus any one of these methods can be applied to on-board guidance scheme or control system which requires real time estimate of time-to-go.


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    Title :

    Estimated flight time for optimum trajectories


    Additional title:

    IEEE -- Trans Aerospace Electronic Systems


    Contributors:
    Duty, R.L. (author)


    Publication date :

    1967


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :