MAE 240Space Flight Mechanics
Astrodynamics modeling within Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian frameworks with application to spacecraft motion in non-Keplerian and strongly perturbed environments. Topics include the gravitational n-body problem and reduced-order models, perturbation formulations and dynamical systems theory, and numerical methods.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “graduate standing.”
Where it sits in degree plans
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- AeroEng w/Spec Astrodynm&SpcAp