Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications

Vallado, D. A. (2013). Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications. Microcosm Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

2013

ISBN

9781881883180

Link

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL38232043Mmatched

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Domain-specific

• Chronological Snobbery
  • So engineers still size structures with it, and interplanetary mission design still rests on Newtonian gravitation, with small relativistic corrections added for precise ephemerides and spacecraft navigation

    This sourceStandard astrodynamics text that designs interplanetary transfers with Newtonian two-body methods such as patched conics, noting relativistic corrections for precise work.

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• Orbital state vectors
  • … and units, dynamical force model, mass parameter, osculating or mean status, covariance and correlations, data provenance, transformation, and propagation uncertainty are explicit. to An applied instance preserves the same invariant under a changed scale, notation, jurisdiction, dataset, or implementation..
• Perifocal Coordinate System
  • Radius and velocity are first computed in a two-dimensional orbit plane; inclination \(i\), right ascension of the ascending node \(\Omega\), and argument of periapsis \(\omega\) then rotate that simple state into the chosen inertial frame.

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