Astrodynamics
by Prof. Richard Battin
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Description
This course covers the fundamentals of astrodynamics, focusing on the two-body orbital initial-value and boundary-value problems with applications to space vehicle navigation and guidance for lunar and planetary missions, including both powered flight and midcourse maneuvers. Other topics include celestial mechanics, Kepler's problem, Lambert's problem, orbit determination, multi-body methods, mission planning, and recursive algorithms for space navigation. Selected applications from the Apollo, Space Shuttle, and Mars exploration programs are also discussed.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoA Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Moon | -- | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 1 Episode |
Customer Reviews
Great topic, terrible presentation
The description of this lecture does not match the content at all. Instead, this is an hour and twenty minutes of an 80 year old engineer with horrendous presentation skills bragging about little things he did 50 years ago. He has no up to date credibility (was not aware of the Constellation program) and rambles on instead of giving interesting facts, theories in a concise 25 minutes.
If you think there might be funny or humorous parts in this presentation given the title, you'd be wrong again. Not funny, no interesting stories regarding going to the moon which the title implies. Principles of astrophysics are not addressed either as the description says.
Some Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Moon
This lecture is better titled a history of the Apollo program. Dr. Battin presented this same material to our local AIAA in March 1991 as part of a non-technical dinner meeting. This particular lecture further removes any technical portions by obscuring key slides as copyright protected. But, this is a very good history of the Apollo program from Dr. Battin, who participated, and provided guidance and control expertise to the Apollo program.
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