Course Outline
1. Celestial Mechanics
2. Orbital Properties
3. Orbit Specification
4. The Launch Phase
5. Near-Earth Orbital Manoeuvres
6. Orbital Perturbations
7. Deep Space Missions
8. Future Prospects
Further Reading
Spacecraft/Systems
Spacecraft Systems Engineering Fortescue & Stark 629.47
Rocket Prop. & Spacecraft Dyn. Cornelisse,Schoyer,Wakker 629.411
Space Missions Analysis & Design Wertz & Larson 629.41
Rocket and Spacecraft Propulsion Turner 629.475
Celestial Mechanics
Orbital Motion Roy 521.3
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics Bates, Mueller and White 629.411
Adventures in Celestial Mechanics Szebehely 521.1
Spaceflight Dynamics Wiesel 629.41
General Interest
Starflight Handbook Mallove & Matloff 629.4
Websites
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/
Topic I - Celestial Mechanics
1.1 Kepler’s Laws; Newton’s Law of Gravity
1.2 The Many Body Problem
1.3 The Two-Body Problem
Topic 2 - Orbital Properties
2.1 Types of Conic Section
2.2 Dependence on the Initial Conditions
2.3 Measuring the Position in the Orbit
Topic 3 - Orbit Specification
3.1 Reference Frames and Coordinate Systems
3.2 The Orbital Elements
3.3 Orbit Determination
Topic 4 - The Launch Phase
4.1 Launching Spacecraft from the Earth
4.2 Launch Trajectories
4.3 Launch Sites and Ground Stations
Topic 5 - Near-Earth Orbital Manoeuvres
5.1 Adjustment of Orbital Parameters
5.2 Hohmann Transfer to Geosynchronous Orbit
5.3 Transfer to Geostationary Orbit
Topic 6 - Orbital Perturbations
6.1 Effects due to the Earth’s Gravitational Potential
6.2 Atmospheric Drag, Luni-Solar & Other Perturbations
6.3 Station Keeping in Geostationary Orbit
Topic 7 - Deep Space Missions
7.1 Planetary `Spheres of Influence’
7.2 Feasibility Studies of Interplanetary Missions
7.3 Computing Interplanetary Trajectories