Peculiarities of space environment and its description – Effect of space environment on materials of spacecraft structure and astronauts – Effect on satellite life time – Manned space missions – Side real time – Solar time – Standard time –The earth‘s atmosphere – Indian human spaceflight program – ISRO orbital vehicle.
The solar system – reference frames and coordinate systems – terminology related to the celestial sphere and its associated concepts – Kepler‘s law of planetary motion and proof of the laws – Newton‘s universal law of gravitation – the many body problems – Lagrange – Jacobi identity – the circular restricted three body problem – libration points – General N-body problem – two body problems – relations between position and time.
General aspects of satellite injections – Satellite orbit transfer –Various cases – Orbit deviations due to injection errors – Special and general perturbations – Cowell‘s method – Encke‘s method – Method of variations of orbital elements – General perturbations approach.
Two dimensional interplanetary trajectories –Fast interplanetary trajectories – Three dimensional interplanetary trajectories – Launch of interplanetary spacecraft –Trajectory about the target planet – Concept of sphere of influence – Lambert‘s theorem.
Introduction to ballistic missile trajectories – The boost phase – The ballistic phase –Trajectory geometry – Optimal flights – Time of flight – Reentry phase – The position of the impact point – Influence coefficients – Indian Ballistic Missile Defense programme.
Reference Book:
1. Howard D. Curtis., ― Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students‖, Elsevier Publishers, 3rd Edition, 2012. 2. George P. Sutton and Oscar Biblarz, ―Rocket Propulsion Elements‖, 8th edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2000. 3. Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller, and Jerry E. White, ―Fundamentals of Astrodynamics‖, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1972. 4. Parker, E.R., ―Materials for Missiles and Spacecraft‖, McGraw Hill Book Co. Inc., 1982. 5. Martin Tajmar, ―Advanced Space propulsion Systems‖, 1st Edition, Springer, 2003.
Text Book:
1. William E. Wiesel, ―Spaceflight Dynamics, 3rd Edition, Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. 2. J.W. Cornelisse H.F.R. Schoyer& K.F. Wakker,―Rocket Propulsion and Spaceflight Dynamics‖, Pitman Publishing Ltd. 1979.
