Rate Constrained Discrete-time Maximum Principle⁎Siddhartha Ganguly and Souvik Das are supported by the PMRF grant RSPMRF0262 and RSPMRF0262, from the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, respectively. The work of one of the authors was also partially supported by a sponsored project from the Indian Space Research Organization. The authors are with Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay. Issue 19 (2021)