Celestial mechanics and astrodynamics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Victor G. Szebehely

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811691803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Academic Press, 1964
• ISBN: 1-60086-488-0; 1-60086-269-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (765 p.)
• Collana: Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; ; v. 14
• Altri autori (Persone): SzebehelyVictor G. <1921->
• Disciplina: 521.1
• Soggetti: Astronautics; Artificial satellites - Orbits
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A selection of technical papers based mainly on the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Astrodynamics Conference held at New Haven, Connecticut, August 19-21, 1963."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""The ARS Astrodynamics Committee 1962""; ""The AIAA Astrodynamics Committee 1963""; ""The Astrodynamics Conference Committee 1963""; ""Preface""; ""Astrodynamics in the AIAA""; ""Contents""; ""I. Orbit Prediction and General Perturbations""; ""Numerical Aspects of Uniformly Valid Asymptotic Approximations for a Class of Trajectories in the Restricted Three-Body Problem""; ""A Group of Earth-to-Moon Trajectories with Consecutive Collisions""; ""Two Fixed Center Approximations to the Restricted Problem""; ""A High-Order Perturbation Theory Using Rectangular Coordinates""""Trajectories of Satellites under the Influence of Air Drag""; ""II. Astronomical Constants and Physical Properties""; ""System of Astronomical Constants""; ""The Evaluation of Certain Astronomical Constants from the Radio Tracking of Mariner II""; ""Atmospheric Density Determination from Satellite Observations""; ""III. Orbit Selection""; ""Probabilistic Evaluation of Satellite Missions Involving Ground Coverage""; ""Orbital Aspects of Nonsynchronous Communication Satellite Systems""; ""Guidance of Unmanned Lunar and Interplanetary Spacecraft""""An Approximate Method for Computing Error Coefficient Matrices for ; Lunar Trajectories""; ""Minimum Lunar Orbit Inclination to Lunar Equatorial Plane for Earth-Launched Vehicle""; ""General Characteristics of the Launch Window for Orbital Launch to the Moon""; ""Launch Windows for Highly Eccentric Orbits""; ""Moon-to-Earth Trajectories""; ""An Analysis of Free Return Circumlunar Trajectories""; ""Free Return Circumlunar Trajectories from Launch Windows with Fixed Launch Azimuths""; ""IV. Orbit Mechanics of the Ranger and Mariner Missions""""Trajectory Design for Ranger and Mariner Missions""; ""Boost Vehicle Trajectories for Ranger and Mariner Programs""; ""Launch-to-Mission Completion Targeting for Ranger and Mariner Missions""; ""V. Orbit Transfer and Trajectory Optimization""; ""A Trajectory Optimization Technique Based upon the Theory of the Second Variation""; ""Minimum Impulse Transfer""; ""On Some Single-Impulse Transfer Problems""; ""Analysis of the Orbital Transfer Problem in Three-Dimensional Space""; ""VI. Orbit Determination""; ""Position and Velocity Estimates by Trajectory Rectification""""Self-Contained Orbit Determination Techniques""; ""Linearized Drag Analysis and Orbit Determination""; ""Orbit Determination in the Presence of Systematic Errors""; ""Contributors to Volume 14""