Overview
- Examines the main principles of celestial mechanics and astrodynamics in an elaborate, comprehensive and mathematically rigorous manner
- Emphasizes the similarities between celestial mechanics and astrodynamics
- Provides innovative topics and new directions which are not well covered in the literature
- Combines basic concepts with emerging topics, which produces a state-of-the art and coherent treatise with a longer shelf life
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 436)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
Keywords
- Atmospheric Drag
- Canonical Transformations
- Celestial Mechanics and Astrodynamics
- Computation of Orbits
- Extrasolar Planets
- Flybys
- General Central-Force Motion
- Least Squares Methods and Kalman Filtering
- Numerical Procedures in Astrodynamics
- Numerical Procedures in Celestial Mechanics
- Orbit Transfers
- People and Progress in Celestial Mechanics
- Space Debris
- Stability and Chaos in Celestial Mechanics
- Three-Body Problem
- Two-Body Problem
About this book
“Celestial Mechanics and Astrodynamics: Theory and Practice” also presents the main challenges and future prospects for the two fields in an elaborate, comprehensive and rigorous manner. The book presents homogenous and fluent discussions of the key problems, rendering a portrayal of recent advances in the field together with some basic concepts and essential infrastructure in orbital mechanics. The text contains introductory material followed by a gradual development of ideas interweaved to yield a coherent presentation of advanced topics.
Reviews
“This book combines the two disciplines in the aerospace community. … The strength of the book lies in its comprehensive illustrations of mathematics, figures and modern developments. … this book can serve as a good guide to exploring the numerical work in astrodynamics.” (Chih-Yueh Wang, Contemporary Physics, Vol. 58 (3), July, 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Seidelmann is Research Professor at the University of Virginia, President of the Celestial Mechanics Institute and past chairman of the IAU/IAG Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements. His recent work has focused on space astrometry missions, reference systems, space surveillance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Celestial Mechanics and Astrodynamics: Theory and Practice
Authors: Pini Gurfil, P. Kenneth Seidelmann
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-50370-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50368-3Published: 09 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-57054-8Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-50370-6Published: 28 July 2016
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 522
Number of Illustrations: 93 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Classical Mechanics