MECH 542 Spacecraft Dynamics

3 credits · Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering · Offered: Fall

Review of central force motion; Hohmann and other coplanar transfers, rotation of the orbital plane, patched conic method. Orbital perturbations due to the earth's oblateness, solar-lunar attraction, solar radiation pressure and atmospheric drag. Attitude dynamics of a rigid spacecraft; attitude sta…

Prerequisite courses: MECH 220

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