Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization

A contributed volume on space trajectory optimization. Includes a variety of both analytical and numerical approaches to trajectory optimization.

List of contents

1. The problem of spacecraft trajectory optimization Bruce A. Conway; 2. Primer vector theory and application John E. Prussing; 3. Spacecraft trajectory optimization using direct transcription and nonlinear programming Stephen W. Paris and Bruce A. Conway; 4. Elements of a software system for spacecraft trajectory optimization Cesar Ocampo; 5. Low-thrust trajectory optimization using orbital averaging and control parameterization Craig A. Kluever; 6. Analytic representation of optimal low-thrust transfer in circular orbit Jean A. Kechichian; 7. Global optimization and space pruning for spacecraft trajectory design Dario Izzo; 8. Incremental techniques for global space trajectory design Massimiliano Vasile and Matteo Ceriotti; 9. Optimal low-thrust trajectories using stable manifolds Christopher Martin and Bruce A. Conway.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Conway, Bruce A. Conway, Bruce A. (University of Illinois Conway
• Assisted by: Bruce Conway (Editor), Bruce A. Conway (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107653825
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65382-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Aerospace
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Aviation and space engineering