Meanings
- pluralplural of costate
On the other hand the initial costates are assessed analytically from the initial conditions and they can be used as initial guess for transfers at different thrust levels.
2016, Max Cerf, “Optimal Thrust Level for Orbit Insertion”, in arXiv
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of costate
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