Orbital Mechanics

Host University

Virginia Tech

Semester

Spring 2024

Course Number

AOE 5234

CRN

10535

Credits

3

Discipline

Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

Instructor

Kenyon, Samantha P.

Times and Days

Asynchronous

Course Information

Lagranges equations of motion, two-body problem, conic sections, Keplers laws, orbit determination. Multi-body problems and integrals of motion. Fundamentals of perturbation theory, variation of parameters, and Lagranges planetary equations. Regularization and alternative formulations of equations of motion.