Wanna know how we landed on the Moon? Curious about how interplanetary trajectories are calculated? Welcome to the science of astrodynamics.
Written specifically for the U.S. Air Force Academy
, this book is a set of concise and intuitive explanations and examples of spacecraft dynamics concepts. Topics covered include:
Two-body Orbital Mechanics
Orbital Maneuvers
Ballistic Missile Trajectories
Lunar Trajectories
Interplanetary Trajectories
Perturbation Methods
If you are an undergraduate majoring in Aerospace Engineering, and your textbook for Spacecraft Dynamics is not this book, make sure you get this book. It will be worth every penny!
About the authors
Roger R. Bate was a brigadier general, Rhodes Scholar, professor, and scientist who has held a variety of positions with the U.S. Air Force,
Texas Instruments, and the Software Engineering Institute at
Carnegie Mellon University`.
Jerry E. White is a retired U.S. Air Force major general. After his study at Purdue University
, he became an Associate Professor of Astronautics, at the U.S. Air Force Academy
in 1968.
Wanna know how we landed on the Moon? Curious about how interplanetary trajectories are calculated? Welcome to the science of astrodynamics.
Written specifically for the U.S. Air Force Academy
, this book is a set of concise and intuitive explanations and examples of spacecraft dynamics concepts. Topics covered include:
Two-body Orbital Mechanics
Orbital Maneuvers
Ballistic Missile Trajectories
Lunar Trajectories
Interplanetary Trajectories
Perturbation Methods
If you are an undergraduate majoring in Aerospace Engineering, and your textbook for Spacecraft Dynamics is not this book, make sure you get this book. It will be worth every penny!
About the authors
Roger R. Bate was a brigadier general, Rhodes Scholar, professor, and scientist who has held a variety of positions with the U.S. Air Force,
Texas Instruments, and the Software Engineering Institute at
Carnegie Mellon University`.
Jerry E. White is a retired U.S. Air Force major general. After his study at Purdue University
, he became an Associate Professor of Astronautics, at the U.S. Air Force Academy
in 1968.