Explore astrodynamics concepts. Develop useful content for applications, e.g. trajectory design, TLE processing.
INCLUDES:
- Restricted 3-Body Problem:
zero-relative velocity contours Halo reference orbit design
- n-body problem propagator
- Satellite data handling:
TLE RINEX Gold code generator
- Solvers:
Gauss Gibbs Lambert Triangulation Trilateration
- Visibility:
r1 to r2 ground vector to sat occultation, Earth umbra, day/night solar phase angle
- Transit (overhead pass)
- Determination:
Batch least squares Sequential Kalman filter
- Relative orbits:
Hill-Clohessy-Wiltshire model
- Changing orbits:
two-impulse rendezvous
- Signal Processing:
Doppler shift Ranging, range rates