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2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MAE 583 - Astrodynamics

(3 units)

Prerequisite: MAE 502  or a grade of “C” or better.  Open to Mechanical Engineering MS, Aerospace Engineering MS and Engineering MS students only.
Physical principles. Two-body and central force motion. Coordinate and time systems. Trajectory correction maneuvers. Position and velocity in conic orbits. Lambert’s Problem. Celestial mechanics. Orbital perturbations. Numerical methods in orbital mechanics and mission analysis.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-problems 3 hours)