MAE 4253 creditsPrereq: Pre-Requisite: MAE 376 .Mechanical Or Aerospace Engineering Majors Only.
MAE 425: Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
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- Introduces the concepts of spacecraft orbital mechanics and attitude dynamics. Orbital mechanics is the study of the positional motion, while attitude dynamics describes the orientation of the spacecraft. Topics include: review of rotational kinematics and dynamics, orbital mechanics, gravity turn and trajectory optimization, orbit lifetimes, three-body problem, orbit perturbations, orbit determination, spacecraft dynamics, spinning and three-axis stabilized spacecraft, and attitude determination.
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