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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019181203321

Autore

Tewari Ashish

Titolo

Foundations of Space Dynamics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-119-45532-4

1-119-45533-2

1-119-45530-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 pages)

Collana

Aerospace Ser.

Disciplina

629.4/11

Soggetti

Orbital mechanics

Space vehicles - Dynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction --   1.1 Space Flight --     1.1.1 Atmosphere as Perturbing Environment --     1.1.2 Gravity as the Governing Force --     1.1.3 Topics in Space Dynamics --   1.2 Reference Frames and Time Scales --     1.2.1 Sidereal Frame --     1.2.2 Celestial Frame --     1.2.3 Synodic Frame --     1.2.4 Julian Date --   1.3 Classification of Space Missions --   1.3 Exercises --   1.3 References -- Chapter 2 Dynamics --   2.1 Notation and Basics --   2.2 Plane Kinematics --   2.3 Newton's Laws --   2.4 Particle Dynamics --   2.5 The n‐Body Problem --   2.6 Dynamics of a Body --   2.7 Gravity Field of a Body --     2.7.1 Legendre Polynomials --     2.7.2 Spherical Coordinates --     2.7.3 Axisymmetric Body --     2.7.4 Spherical Body with Radially Symmetric Mass Distribution

Sommario/riassunto

"Space dynamics is one of the most important topics in aerospace engineering. It governs the satellites launched into an Earth orbit as well as lunar and interplanetary space exploration missions. The successful launching and operation of all spacecraft requires a good knowledge of space dynamics. Space dynamics can be divided into two broad categories: (i) orbital mechanics, and (ii) attitude dynamics. Orbital mechanics is a study of the translational motion of a spacecraft



under the gravitational influence of either one or several large bodies. Attitude dynamics is the study of rotational motion of a rigid spacecraft about its own centre of mass, and includes both kinematical and kinetic description in terms of Euler angles, quaternion, or Rodrigues/modified Rodrigues parameters, and the angular velocity components."--