Interplanetary Spacecraft Navigation and Guidance examines a vast field that was developed to enable the exploration of the Moon and planets in the solar system by increasingly sophisticated spacecraft, flying-by, landing, or orbiting the inner and outer planets and releasing probes to enter their atmosphere. The book starts with the theoretical analysis of the information content of radiometric and optical data during planetary encounters. Then, in Chapter 2, an orbit determination accuracy assessment for an asteroid flyby is carried out to show how the dominant error in the determination of...
Interplanetary Spacecraft Navigation and Guidance examines a vast field that was developed to enable the exploration of the Moon and planets in the so...