Jean Albert Kechichian

Gebundenes Buch

Applied Nonsingular Astrodynamics

Optimal Low-Thrust Orbit Transfer

Beschreibung

This unique book provides readers with a clear understanding of the mathematics of orbit transfer while allowing them to develop their own operational software to fly actual missions, and to use the contents as a research tool to carry out even more complex analyses. It also covers a number of practical, real-life applications.

Autor

Jean Albert Kéchichian is a retired Engineering Specialist from The Aerospace Corporation. His career has included senior level engineering positions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Ford Aerospace. His main areas of contribution are in spaceflight guidance and navigation. He is a Fellow of The American Astronautical Society, and his work has regularly appeared in Acta Astronautica, the Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, the Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, and the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. He holds Degrees in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering from l'Université de Liège, University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Aerospace Series
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 184mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1182g
• ISBN-13: 9781108472364
• ISBN-10: 1108472362
• Artikelnr.: 52526412