Space Manifold Dynamics Novel Spaceways for Science and Exploration

This book presents an overview of the outcomes resulting from applying the dynamical systems approach to space mission design, a topic referred to as "Space Manifold Dynamics" (SMD). It is a natural follow-on to the international workshop "Novel Spaceways for Scientific and Exploration Missions," which was held in October 2007 at the Telespazio Fucino Space Centre (Italy) under the auspices of the Space OPS Academy. The benefits and drawbacks of using the Lagrangian points and the associated trajectories for present and future space missions are discussed. The related methods and algorithms are also described in detail. Each topic is presented in articles that were written as far as possible to be self consistent; the use of introductory sections and of extended explanations is included in order to address the different communities potentially interested in SMD: space science, the aerospace industry, manned and unmanned exploration, celestial mechanics, and flight dynamics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ettore Perozzi (Editor), Sylvio Ferraz-Mello (Editor), Ettor Perozzi (Editor), Ferraz-Mello (Editor), Ferraz-Mello (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2016
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy
• EAN: 9781493939671
• ISBN: 978-1-4939-3967-1
• Pages: 258
• Illustrations: XV, 258 p.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 23.5 x 1.1 cm
• Weight (packing): 472 g
• Subjects: C, Sonnensystem: Sonne und Planeten, astronomy, Astrophysics, Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Astronautik (Raumfahrttechnik), Angewandte Physik, astronautics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences, Solar system: the Sun & planets, Planetology, Planetary Science, Aerospace engineering, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Aerospace & aviation technology, Space Physics, Space sciences