Celestial Mechanics and Astrodynamics: Theory and Practice

• Main Authors: Gurfil, Pini (Author), Seidelmann, P. Kenneth (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 436
• Subjects: Physics.; Mechanics.; Astrophysics.; Vibration.; Dynamical systems.; Dynamics.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.

This volume is designed as an introductory text and reference book for graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of astronomy, astrodynamics, satellite systems, space sciences and astrophysics. The purpose of the book is to emphasize the similarities between celestial mechanics...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Vectors
• Reference Systems and Relativity
• Central Force Motion
• The Two-Body Problem
• Orbit Determination
• The n-Body Problem
• The Restricted Three-Body Problem
• Numerical Procedures
• Canonical Equations
• General Perturbations Theory
• Motion Around Oblate Planets
• Semianalytical Orbit Theory
• Satellite Orbit Control
• Optimal Impulsive Orbit Transfers
• Orbit Data Processing
• Space Debris
• People, Progress, Prospects.