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Language: English
Published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto & Singapore, 1976
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With diagrams & illustrations. Slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xii, 415 pages.
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- Title
- Modern Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
- Author
- Kaplan, Marshall H.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto & Singapore
- Publication year
- 1976
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Dust Jacket
- Binding
- Original decorated boards
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0471457035
- ISBN 13
- 9780471457039
- Edition
- First Edition; Eighth Printing.
Beginning with an examination of the basic principles of physics underlying spacecraft dynamics and control, topics in this highly regarded advanced undergraduate/graduate level text include orbital and attitude maneuvers, orbit establishment and orbit transfer, plane rotation, interplanetary transfer and hyperbolic passage, lunar transfer, reorientation with constant momentum, attitude determination, and attitude adjustment requirements. Includes answers to selected exercises and a new Preface by the author.
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About the Author
Marshall H. Kaplan received his MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and his Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Sciences from Stanford. He is Professor of Practice at the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland and the author of many articles and contributions to books in the field of astronautics.
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