AENG 3150 (Astrodynamics) Spring 2016

• Syllabus (Spring 2016)

Useful (and semi-useful) things

• • Everything you need to know about orbital mechanics on one (double-sided) page.

  • A 15-minute primer on using Matlab.

  • A Scale Model of the Universe, built in the Desert (7 Minutes)

  • Matthew Hansen's Orbitron 5000 (simple Earth orbit visualization tool)

  • AGI's Spacebook (real-time viewer of all cataloged spacecraft in orbit)

Presentations

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• Prussing Chapter 2:

  • Calculating time as a function of position (13 Minutes) *

  • Examples (16 Minutes) *

  • The Rocket Equation (11:44)

  • Mission Flowdown *

  • Interplanetary Mission Analysis *

Midterm Preparation

• • Midterm 1 (Prussing 1.1 - 2.3)

    • The equation sheet (listed above) will be provided

  • Practice Exam 1

    • Solutions to Practice Exam 1

  • Midterm 2 (Prussing 6 & 7)

    • The equation sheet will be provided, as will this one: Rocket Equations

    • Practice Exam 2.

    • Solutions to Practice Exam 2 (Problem 2d is corrected!)

Homework Assignments

• • HW01 (Due 01/22) Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen!

  • HW02 (Due 01/27) You can learn all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds...

  • HW03 (Due 02/05) You know, sometimes I amaze even myself...

  • HW04 (Due 02/12) We are from Planet DUPLO; we have come to destroy you

  • The test cases for HW04 are available here.

  • HW06 (Due 03/23) Never give up, never surrender!

Orbit Design Project

• • Project Assignment (Due 05/05)

SMART Project

• • Project Assignment (Due 04/04)

  • Teams