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episode 104: Space Flight Dynamics
In this episode we talk to Rainer Kresken of ESA ESOC Darmstadt about orbital mechanics and space flight dynamics. We have obviously addressed this topic in earlier episodes, this episode really diggs down deeper, and helped me understand the concepts and the challenges much better.
- ESA ESOC Darmstadt
- Hipparcos
- Infrared Space Observatory
- XMM-Newton
- XMM-Integral
- Herschel Space Observatory
- Planck
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Kepler’s laws of planetary motion
- LAGEOS
- GOCE
- Solar activity
- Solar wind
- Solar sail
- Newton’s method
- Differential equation
- Runge–Kutta methods
- Doppler effect
- Curve fitting
- FORTRAN 77
- Lagrangian point
- Hydrazine
- mascon
- Gravity assist/Swing-by
- Cassini–Huygens
- Semi-major axis
- Delta-v
- Orbital inclination
- Polar orbit
- Terminator
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Project Gemini
- Pitot tube
- Reaction wheel
- X band