Description
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As a crewmember of the D-2 shuttle mission and a full professor of astronautics at the Technical University in Munich, Ulrich Walter is an acknowledged expert in the field. He is also the author of a number of popular science books on space flight and research.This textbook is based on extensive teaching and his work with students, backed by numerous examples drawn from his own experience. With its chapter-end examples and problems, this is suitable for graduate level courses in satellite engineering and space systems engineering, as well as for professionals working in the space industry.From the contents: Rocket Flight Thermal Propulsion Electric Propulsion Orbits Interplanetary Flight Re-Entry The 3-Body Problem Coordinate Systems Rigid Body Dynamics Thermal Control
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1. Rocket Fundamentals
2. Rocket Flight
3. Rocket Staging
4. Thermal Propulsion
5. Electric Propulsion
6. Ascent Flight
7. Orbits
8. Orbit Transitions
9. Interplanetary Flight
10. Reentry
11. Three-Body Problem
12. Orbit Perturbations
13. Coordinate Systems
14. Orbit Determination
15. Rigid Body Dynamics
(Author portrait)
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Walter Leitet den Lehrstuhl für Raumfahrttechnik an der Technischen Universität München und lehrt und forscht im Bereich Raumfahrttechnologie und Systemtechnik. Seine Schwerpunkte sind Intersatelliten-Kommunikations-Technologien und Rechnerarchitekturen, insbesondere für Robotik im Weltraum, und Systemmodellierung und Optimierung.
