
Analytical Solutions for Extremal Space Trajectories
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Key Features
- Features an analyses of Pontryagin extremals and/or Pontryagin minimum in the context of space trajectory design
- Presents the general methodology of an analytical synthesis of the extremal and optimal trajectories for the design of various orbital transfer and powered descent and landing maneuvers
- Assists in developing the optimal control theory for applications in aerospace technology and space mission design
Readership
Engineers and researchers of industrial and government organizations; University faculty and graduate and undergraduate students working, specializing or majoring in the fields of aerospace engineering, applied celestial mechanics, and guidance, navigation and control technologies, applied mathematics and analytical dynamics as well as avionics software design and development
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Optimal and Extremal Trajectories
3. Motion with Constant Power and Variable Specific Impulse
4. Motion with Variable Power and Constant Specific Impulse
5. Motion with Constant Power and Constant Specific Impulse
6. Extremal Trajectories in a Linear Central Field
7. Extremal Trajectories in a Uniform Gravity Field
8. Number of Thrust Arcs for Extremal Orbital Transfers
9. Some Problems of Trajectory Synthesis in the Newtonian Field
10. Conclusions
11. Appendix
12. Nomenclature
Product details
- No. of pages: 330
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2017
- Published: August 23, 2017
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128140581
- eBook ISBN: 9780128140598
About the Author
Dilmurat Azimov
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