Orbital Mechanics
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195078349 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Lacking as a goto Orbital Mechanics Text I own this because it was a required text when I was in school. I now work with the subject material. I would recommend Bate, Mueller, and White's book and/or Vallado's book instead.. "If you study astrodynamics, it will be one of the best books" according to A Customer. This book explains the basic and advanced theory of orbit mechanics systematically and also provides information required to perform basic and advanced orbital analysis in examples.
"Prussing and Conway have written up their final-year university course. The book is a paragon of clarity and has problems and worked examples." --David Hughes (Univ of Sheffield), New Scientist"Good references and problem sets" --Choice . Here, celestial mechanics is expanded into space aeronautics
John A. Conway are Professors of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.. Prussing and Bruce A
The subject of orbital mechanics is developed starting from the first principles, using Newton's laws of motion and the law of gravitation to prove Kepler's empirical laws of planetary motion. Recent missions such as Voyager and Galileo required gravity assist maneuvers at several planets to accomplish their objectives. This classroom-tested textbook takes its title from an elective course which has been taught to senior undergraduates and first-year graduate students for the past 22 years. The subject of orbit transfer receives special attention. One of the major challenges of modern space mission design is the orbital mechanics -- determining how to get a spacecraft to its destination using a limited amount of propellant. Optimal orbit transfers such as the Hohmann transfer, minimum-fuel transfers using more than two impulses, and non-coplanar orbital transfer are discussed. Patched-conic interplanetary trajector