Recent Advances in Celestial and Space Mechanics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bonnard, Bernard (Editor), Chyba, Monique (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Mathematics for Industry, 23
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematical physics.; Space sciences.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Control engineering.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.; Control.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.

This book presents recent advances in space and celestial mechanics, with a focus on the N-body problem and astrodynamics, and explores the development and application of computational techniques in both areas. It highlights the design of space transfers with various modes of propulsion, like solar...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• List of Contributors
• Integrability and Non-Integrability of N-Body Problems
• Relative Equilibria in the Full N-Body Problem with Applications to the Equal Mass Problem
• Station Keeping Strategies for a Solar Sail in the Solar System
• Minimum Fuel Trip from a L2 Earth-Moon Halo Orbit to Asteroid 2006 RH120
• Low-Thrust Transfers Between Libration Point Orbits Without Explicit Use of Manifolds
• Time-Minimum Control of the Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problem Applied to Space Transfer
• On Local Optima in Minimum Time Control of the Restricted Three-Body Problem.