Optimal Space Trajectories

✍ Scribed by JEAN-PIERRE MAREC (Eds.)

Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
Year: 1979
Tongue: English
Leaves: 339
Series: Studies in Astronautics 1
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter
Page iii

Copyright page
Page iv

Foreword
Pages v-vii
P. Contensou

Dedication
Page viii

Preface
Pages ix-xi
J.P. Marec

Acknowledgements
Page xiii

Recommendations for Selective Reading
Pages xv-xvi

Nomenclature
Pages xvii-xxi

Introduction
Pages 1-5

1 - Modeling and Optimization of Propulsion Systems
Pages 7-19

2 - Parametric Optimization : The Hohmann Transfer
Pages 21-32

3 - Functional Optimization : The Contensou-Pontryagin Maximum Principle
Pages 33-51

4 - Optimal Transfers in a General Gravitational Field
Pages 53-70

5 - Optimal Transfers in a Uniform Gravitational Field
Pages 71-88

6 - Optimal Transfers in a Central Gravitational Field : General Considerations
Pages 89-120

7 - Optimal Orbit Corrections : General Considerations
Pages 121-154

8 - Optimal Orbit Corrections : Examples of Transfers
Pages 155-201

9 - Optimal Orbit Corrections : Examples of Rendezvous
Pages 203-225

10 - Time-Free Orbital Transfers : General Considerations
Pages 227-261

11 - Time-Free Orbital Transfers : Results
Pages 263-274

12 - Time-Fixed Orbital Transfers and Rendezvous
Pages 275-305

13 - Interplanetary Rendezvous
Pages 307-322

Author Index
Pages 323-324

Subject Index
Pages 325-329

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