Space Flight Mechanics (Prof. M. Sinha, IIT Kharagpur) | Aeronautics and Astronautics

Space Flight Mechanics

Space Flight Mechanics. Instructor: Prof. M. Sinha, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. This is an introductory course on space flight mechanics and is made to expose students to the complicacies of the substreams in space flight mechanics. This course is enriched with the introduction to rockets which will make the subject matter. From the starting phase of launching of a satellite to its orbit maintenance and determination, the course is covered with topics in particle dynamics, central force motion, orbit transfer, attitude dynamics and rocket propulsion. (from nptel.ac.in)

Introduction

Introduction to Space Flight Mechanics

Lecture 01 - Introduction

Particle Dynamics

Lecture 02 - Particle Kinematics

Lecture 03 - Particle Kinematics (cont.)

Conic Section

Lecture 04 - Conic Section

Central Force Motion

Lecture 05 - Two Body Problem Equation of Relative Motion

Lecture 06 - Gravitational Central Force Motion

Lecture 07 - Gravitational Central Force Motion (Kepler's Third Law), Two Body Problem

Lecture 08 - Two Body Problem: Orbit Determination Problem

Lecture 09 - Two Body Problem: Orbit Determination Problem of a Satellite

Lecture 10 - Two Body Problem: Orbit Determination Problem (cont.)

Lecture 11 - Two Body Problem: Orbit Determination Problem - Kepler's Equation

Lecture 12 - Two Body Problem: Kepler Problem, Three Body Problem

Lecture 13 - Three Body Problem: Inertial, Relative, and Barycentric Formulas

Lecture 14 - Restricted Three Body Problem Equation of Motion

Lecture 15 - Circularly Restricted Three Body Problem

Lecture 16 - Restricted Three Body Problem (cont.)

Lecture 17 - Restricted Three Body Problem (cont.)

Lecture 18 - Restricted Three Body Problem (cont.)

Lecture 19 - Restricted Three Body Problem (cont.)

Lecture 20 - Restricted Three Body Problem (cont.)

Trajectory Transfer

Lecture 21 - Trajectory Transfer: Classification of the Trajectory

Lecture 22 - Transfer between Two Coplanar Circular Orbits: Minimum Eccentricity Transfer

Lecture 23 - Transfer between Two Coplanar Circular Orbits: Impulse Transfer

Lecture 24 - General Two-Impulse Transfer, Efficiency of Hohmann Transfer and Bi-elliptic Transfer

Lecture 25 - Hohmann Transfer and Bi-elliptic Transfer

Lecture 26 - Hohmann Transfer and Bi-elliptic Transfer (cont.)

Lecture 27 - Coplanar Transfer: Example of Hohmann Transfer

Lecture 28 - Coplanar Maneuver: Trajectory Transfer Problem

Lecture 29 - Rendezvous Problem for Two Vehicles in the Same Circular Orbit

Lecture 30 - Rendezvous Problem between Two Vehicles in an Elliptic Orbit, Non-coplanar Maneuver

Lecture 31 - Non-coplanar Maneuver

Lecture 32 - Non-coplanar Trajectory Transfer (cont.), Satellite Attitude Dynamics

Attitude Dynamics

Lecture 33 - Attitude Dynamics: Satellite Attitude Control

Lecture 34 - Rigid Body Dynamics

Lecture 35 - Rigid Body Dynamics (cont.)

Lecture 36 - Rigid Body Dynamics (cont.)

Lecture 37 - Rigid Body Dynamics (cont.)

Lecture 38 - Rigid Body Dynamics: Euler Angles

Lecture 39 - Rigid Body Dynamics: Torque Free Rotation of a Rigid Body

Lecture 40 - Attitude Dynamics of a Torque Free Rotating Body

Lecture 41 - Attitude Dynamics of a Torque Free Rotating Body (cont.)

Propulsion

Lecture 42 - Rocket Propulsion

Lecture 43 - Rocket Propulsion (cont.)

Lecture 44 - Rocket Propulsion (cont.)

Lecture 45 - Rocket Propulsion (cont.)

References

Space Flight Mechanics
Instructor: Prof. M. Sinha, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. This is an introductory course on space flight mechanics and is made to expose students to the complicacies of the substreams in space flight mechanics.