Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students: Revised Reprint

ISBN-13: 9780128240250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020

Howard D. Curtis

Spis treści

1. Dynamics of Point Masses 2. The Two-Body Problem 3. Orbital Position as a Function of Time 4. Orbits in Three Dimensions 5. Preliminary Orbit Determination 6. Orbital Maneuvers 7. Relative Motion and Rendezvous 8. Interplanetary Trajectories 9. Lunar Trajectories 10. Introduction to Orbital Perturbations 11. Rigid Body Dynamics 12. Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics 13. Rocket Vehicle Dynamics

Appendix A Physical Data B A Road Map C Numerical Integration of the N-Body Equations of Motion D MATLAB Scripts E Gravitational Potential of a Sphere  F Computing the Difference Between Nearly Equal Numbers G Direction Cosine Matrix in Terms of the Unit Quaternion