AOE 4134 Astromechanics

AOE 4134 Astromechanics

• Course Outline for AOE 4134
• Astrodynamics Constants
• Equations
• 1.Notes on Vector Representations and Polar Coordinates
• 2. Two-Body Differential Equations-of-Motion
• 3. Some Constants of the Motion
• 4. Solution to Orbit Differential Equations
• 5. Orbit Properties and Equations
• 6. Notes on Changing Orbits
• 7. Mission Analysis (Patched Conic Approximation)
• Patched Conic Equations
• 8. Introducing Time into the Problem
• 9. Orbit in Space and Coordinate Systems
• 10. The Kepler or Time Problem
• 11. Notes on Two Line Element Sets
• 12. Notes on Satellite Look angle
• 13. Notes on Local Sidereal Time
• 14. Earth Oblateness Effects

• Homework set 1
• Homework set 2
• Homework set 3
• Homework set 4
• Homework set 5
• Homework set 6
• Homework set 7
• Homework set 8
• Homework set 9
• Homework set 10
• Homework set 11
• Homework set 12

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