Celestial Mechanics and Astrodynamics.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (765 pages)
- Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics .
- Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- The ARS Astrodynamics Committee 1962 -- The AIAA Astrodynamics Committee 1963 -- The Astrodynamics Conference Committee 1963 -- Preface -- Astrodynamics in the AIAA -- Contents -- I. Orbit Prediction and General Perturbations -- Numerical Aspects of Uniformly Valid Asymptotic Approximations for a Class of Trajectories in the Restricted Three-Body Problem -- A Group of Earth-to-Moon Trajectories with Consecutive Collisions -- Two Fixed Center Approximations to the Restricted Problem -- A High-Order Perturbation Theory Using Rectangular Coordinates -- Trajectories of Satellites under the Influence of Air Drag -- II. Astronomical Constants and Physical Properties -- System of Astronomical Constants -- The Evaluation of Certain Astronomical Constants from the Radio Tracking of Mariner II -- Atmospheric Density Determination from Satellite Observations -- III. Orbit Selection -- Probabilistic Evaluation of Satellite Missions Involving Ground Coverage -- Orbital Aspects of Nonsynchronous Communication Satellite Systems -- Guidance of Unmanned Lunar and Interplanetary Spacecraft -- An Approximate Method for Computing Error Coefficient Matrices for Lunar Trajectories -- Minimum Lunar Orbit Inclination to Lunar Equatorial Plane for Earth-Launched Vehicle -- General Characteristics of the Launch Window for Orbital Launch to the Moon -- Launch Windows for Highly Eccentric Orbits -- Moon-to-Earth Trajectories -- An Analysis of Free Return Circumlunar Trajectories -- Free Return Circumlunar Trajectories from Launch Windows with Fixed Launch Azimuths -- IV. Orbit Mechanics of the Ranger and Mariner Missions -- Trajectory Design for Ranger and Mariner Missions -- Boost Vehicle Trajectories for Ranger and Mariner Programs -- Launch-to-Mission Completion Targeting for Ranger and Mariner Missions. V. Orbit Transfer and Trajectory Optimization -- A Trajectory Optimization Technique Based upon the Theory of the Second Variation -- Minimum Impulse Transfer -- On Some Single-Impulse Transfer Problems -- Analysis of the Orbital Transfer Problem in Three-Dimensional Space -- VI. Orbit Determination -- Position and Velocity Estimates by Trajectory Rectification -- Self-Contained Orbit Determination Techniques -- Linearized Drag Analysis and Orbit Determination -- Orbit Determination in the Presence of Systematic Errors -- Contributors to Volume 14.