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A uniform solution of the Lambert problem

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A uniform method (with respect to the type of the conic section) for solving the Lambert boundary value problem is presented. It is derived by using the KS-transformation and consists in solving one nonlinear equation. It can be used either in the ordinaryx-frame (physical space) as well as in the KS-coordinates (regularized space).

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  1. Seminar für Angewandte Mathematik der ETH, Zürich

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Kriz, J. A uniform solution of the Lambert problem. Celestial Mechanics 14, 509–513 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01229061

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